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Poetry Month – Poem by Wendy Brown-Baez
For National Poetry Month, I will be selecting poems I enjoy by other writers and artists and will post them here and on Stone Path Review. At the Western Wall, by Wendy Brown-Baez From transparencies of light, 2011, Finishing Line Press I saw here at the Wall flattened against the stones by prayer and I…
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2013 Poetry Month #11 – Poems from Andres Breton
The following are a couple of selections from Andres Breton, a French writer born in 1896. He is credited with being the founder of the surrealist movement in writing, defined as “expression through undirected thought and day-dreaming”. These are taken from the collection “Poems of Andres Breton”, published in 2006 by Black Widow Press. Love in…
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2013 Poetry Month #7 – Solitude Late at Night in the Woods
The following poem is written by Robert Bly. He is considered one of the greatest writers of our time, and it was a challenge to select one piece form his 60-plus years of writing. This piece is from the collection “Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems”, published in 1999 by Perennial. Solitude…
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2013 Poetry Month #6 – Dawn Stanzas
The following poem is written by Thomas R. Smith. This is from the collection “Waking Before Dawn”, published in 2007 by Red Dragonfly Press. Dawn Stanzas For William Stafford Daybreak, how will you accomplish yourself now without his dawn stanzas leaning quietly toward the light, each word a sun rising out of a lost canyon?…
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2013 Poetry Month #5 – Liminal
The following poem was written by Joshua Kryah from the collection “Glean”, published in 2007 by Nightboat Books. Liminal (your voice so terribly human, its distance) Charged, the despotic fire banks. (It was told to.) Ash arches even further, its single shadow listless, pre-determined. Summoned by the great cloud, its remains scattered in every direction, I…
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2013 Poetry Month #4 – To Spring
The following are a couple of selections from William Blake, an English writer born in 1757. He is sometimes considered a ‘Romantic’ who was a writer as well as a visual artist. These are from the collection “William Blake: Selected Poetry”, published in 1996 by Oxford University Press. To Spring O thou, with dewy locks,…
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2013 Poetry Month #3 – Narrow Road to the Interior
These selections are from Matsuo Basho, a Japanese writer born in 1644. He is most famously known for the style called “haibun”. It encompasses prose along with a poem, typically a haiku, about nature or travelling. These are from the collection “Narrow Road to the Interior”, published in 1998 by Shambhala Publications and translated by…
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2013 Poetry Month #2 – Dawn
“Dawn” by Arthur Rimbaud is the second piece for National Poetry Month. This is taken from the book “Rimbaud Complete”, published in 2002 by Modern Library. I held the summer dawn in my arms. Nothing stirred on front of the palaces. The water was dead. Camps of shadows rested on the road through the woods.…
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2013 Poetry Month #1 – My Father’s Closet
“My Father’s Closet” by D. Nurkse is the first piece for National Poetry Month. This is taken from the book “Burnt Island”, published in 2005 by Alfred A. Knopf. 1. HAT As soon as I put in on Brooklyn went dark, but when I took it off my wooden horse stared at me with dazzling…
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National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month – http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/41. In celebration, I will be posting selected poems here and on Stone Path Review from the hundreds of books on my shelves as wells as essays about what poetry means, and its importance in culture and society. If anyone has a favorite poem or memories of their favorite english…