William Shakespeare – Sonnet 116 “No love but unconditional is love.” – Poetry for engineers synopsizes famous poems with attention to the poet’s style and usage.
Audre Lorde: S&R Honors an icon of artistic vision, diversity and self-awareness
Audre Lorde taught us that power begins with knowing and accepting ourselves. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but […]
Tantō
After a courageous performance Against a team That was clearly on fire, And graciously ignoring The obnoxious juvenile response Of a nation defined by our wars, Japan has quietly Saved the world […]
Photography may have saved my life
One of the symptoms of depression is an addiction to rumination. The vicious cycle of negative thinking that strips us of energy and desire. It is precisely our obsession with working out […]
For Women’s History Month – meet, and say good night to, Adrienne Rich
Fabulous feminist foremother Adrienne Rich has died at the age of eighty-two. I once went to a reading of hers. It was unforgettably powerful. I have read most of her books including […]
Even you like hip-hop
volume seven Victoria Hanna – Aleph-bet (Hosha’ana)
Poet Laureate Mark Strand dead: reflecting on something he said
Former US Poet Laureate Mark Strand is dead at 80. In a 1998 interview with the Paris Review, poet Strand said something I find fascinating: Well, I think what happens at certain points […]
RIP Galway Kinnell
One of our greatest poets has died at 87. I had the privilege of seeing Kinnell read while I was at Iowa State in the late ’80s. He did some new things – things […]
Book Review: Throwing the house from the window by Joshua William Booth
Poems that occasionally challenge readers…the “trigger warning” excuses can begin in 3…2…1…. A couple of things will become obvious quickly for readers of this review. The first is that the reviewer has […]
Summer Solstice 2014
22 is my lucky number. 22 years ago I wrote this poem, one of my best ever (or at least the one that a lot of people seemed to like). It’s a […]
