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2013 Poetry Month #12 – John Haines
I had hoped to showcase poetry each day for National Poetry Month, but other obligations diverted my attention and time. For the last day of April, I have chosen poetry from John Haines – a writer whose work and style, along with his time living in Alaska, really influenced and changed my own style, and…
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Spring 2013 Stone Path Review
The Spring 2013 edition of Stone Path Review is now online here. The PDF and printed version will be available soon. As Winter slowly becomes Spring, we celebrate National Poetry Month, and the power and majestic beauty of nature and the mind. Featured in this issue is an interview with writer Regina Bou and work…
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Poetry Journal from India – Teesta Rangeet
A poetry journal based in Sikkam, India, published their fourth issue. Edited by Dweep Mustang and Dhirendra Kumar Shah, I highly recommend this for its depth of work and artists of varying backgrounds from around the world. http://teestarangeet.yolasite.com https://www.facebook.com/teestarangeet
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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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Stone Path Review and update
We are going to be about 1-week late with the Spring issue, our 6th, of Stone Path Review. Due to, well, life. We will have the issue online and available for download this coming weekend. We have a great issue planned with poetry, short stories, photography, and an interview with our featured artist Regina Bou.…
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New Books on the Shelf
Received a great package from Amazon today. The latest collection of poems from D. Nurkse, “A Night in Brooklyn”, and “Airmail”, the letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Transtromer. Mr. Nurkse was part my shift to a more concise and efficient writing style, that also assists tremendously in the editing process. I have read six…
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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,…