Dana Levin Q&A on her poem Ars Poetica
Dana Levin discusses her poem Ars Poetica.
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Thoreau Entered His Cabin Fifty Years Before Freud’s First Mention of Transference
Think of the consummate folly of attempting to go away from here! When the constant endeavor should be to get nearer and nearer here. —Thoreau’s Journal, Nov. 1, 1858 How is […]
Just One Insight
Most afternoons we take the dogs to the creek so the one can flail through the water, the other lie down and shred his stick. We sit on rocks and watch them, telling one another to look at what, in most cases, he or she already sees. Tuesdays, though, he’s been to the […]
And Then, of Course, There’s Hope
At 7:30 p.m. on a Tuesday in April the doors to the Pikes Peak F & AM Lodge on Prospect Street are open. Members of that Prince Hall Affiliated order smile and nod as two doors south a woman says, “God, […]
In Place of All the Poems about Departure, Lessons, and Ends
I had an old life that kept repeating. I was the shell drawn off and on the more or less same shore. But not just “drawn” or “tossed” or “drifting” for I was also the flower: opening, opening— or so I felt. It would take years to see I’d rigged the elements against the very […]
Love Is Made of Images
It was March when Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, “that summer should be here again; and I still have the faculty of wonder at it,” but the day of our pilgrimage to 22 Hyde Park Gate then Kensington Gardens was characteristically damp and gray. I, for one, was grateful for that weather: without […]
Jenn Habel Q&A on lines of poetry she wishes she’d written
Jenn Habel discusses lines of poetry she wishes she’d written.
Jenn Habel Q&A on the genesis of her poem ‘Thoreau Entered His Cabin Fifty Years Before Freud’s First Mention of Transference’
Jenn Habel discusses the genesis of her poem “Thoreau Entered His Cabin Fifty Years Before Freud’s First Mention of Transference.”