It almost sounds like British laureate Carol Ann Duffy is responding to news headlines about bee populations and cellphone usage when she says: Where bees pray on their knees, sing, praise In pear trees, plum trees; bees Are the batteries of orchards, gardens, guard them. Guard them—against what? Cell phones? Against our environmental ignorance? Duffy … Continue reading Carol Ann Duffy’s songs of the Earth
Tag: Poetry
Angels, Neruda, Odom’s poetry and more: a roundup
Coming soon: What begins Michael Odom's book of poetry "Strutting Attracting Snapping" isn't a poem... it's a picture. A sheet of grid paper with a maze written in pencil. The maze has a "Start" and a "Finish" and a lot of twists and meaningful detours in between... and it's much like the experience of reading … Continue reading Angels, Neruda, Odom’s poetry and more: a roundup
Val – thank you, rest in peace
Muse, benefactor, saint -- the poetry world lost Valerie Eliot this week, and it is a big loss. A lovely piece by David Morley in the Guardian lays it all out: how "Val" proved to be the ideal spouse for T.S. Eliot, how she was enthusiastically engaged with the poetry world and an important supporter … Continue reading Val – thank you, rest in peace
Nick Owchar 
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