[ Note: this thread was originally posted in April 2008, but I thought it was worth a bump up to 2011 .] I'm going to crawl out on a lim...

* Male chaffinch ( Fringilla coelebs ) __________________________________________________________ this winter says it has settled for good ...

* It’s a mild night we stand in--all friends recapping the gathering, thrusts and parries, touché and worse, wounds a shape cuts itself out ...

* like patches off an old quilt beaten for dust her mind began to unravel detach float settle unexpectedly end up being fingered stepped on ...

* Sylvia Plath Reads "Daddy" mishima1970 _____________________________________________________________ Sylvia Plath wrote "Da...

* Crystal calcite ball on a light box ___________________________________________________________ Almost imperceptible the change from dark...

William Logan, in late 2006, posted on PoetryFoundation.org his viewpoints on the state of poetry. One passage has caught my eye: Poets who ...

In 2008, The Writer's Chronicle published a timely article: "On Difficulty in Poetry," by Reginald Shepherd. In his introduct...