Displacement

Death and controversy seem to be what’s needed to get poetry into the news; or at least into its margins.   This time the dead poet is Ch...

Should this wonderful weather cheer us up in hard times, or make us worry about climate change?   Or both.   I hope it’s cheering those w...

I’ve been reading this book with a real sense of excitement.  The first thing I read was the first poem, ‘This is Yarrow’ by Tara Bergin.  ...

This will be shorter than the last post.  Long ago, Robert Hass was having a conversation with Miłosz who was showing him some political po...