Poetry Shelf Themes

Posted: Tuesday Sep 03, 2024

Sun

Ah, after rain the sun.

I begin with a poem by Jenny Bornholdt that lives in the go-to-poetry-room in my head, my storage place for poems that haunt and linger and delight. I follow it with poems by writers whose bodies of work give me continued pleasure.

Gathering poetry with various gleams and sun glints is a perfect tonic at a time when we shudder at a sustained climate of greed and violence and neglect.

The next theme will be up in a few weeks . . . plus on Poetry Day I launched a new series with a feature on Janet Frame. I am spending time with individual poets whose work I have deeply loved over my years of reading, writing and reviewing poetry. One poet at a time. One slow nourishing month at a time.

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