We’ve featured several other poems by Bruce Guernsey, who lives in Illinois and Maine. But here he is visiting Gettysburg and giving us a poem for Memorial Day. “Naming the Trees” is forthcoming in ...

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In his latest collection, Ron Smith wrestles with the essential burden of poetry: to communicate an experience of what you cannot attach words to. As one speaker asks, “Why can’t we feel this all the ...