Henrietta Goodman Q&A with advice for young writers
Henrietta Goodman offers some advice for young writers.
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Henrietta Goodman Q&A on two of her favorite poems
Henrietta Goodman reads two of her favorite poems, both by the late Canadian poet John Thompson.
Sky Diving
Do you want to remain completely unharmed? —Jorie Graham My husband tells of the time he parachuted on a dare from his son, how unflaggingly mindful he was as the door of the plane slammed open against the hard slap of sky, how his hands on the struts turned to iron claws as the trainer […]
Black Walnuts
Fact is, I want to like them, if for nothing else than their name, all darkness and mystery, the click in my mouth, my lips closing and falling open. But I hate they way they hammer the roof, the raw unstitching as their green—not black—jackets split open, the way they spill their guts, black juice […]
Scrabble
The board’s tidy squares once reassuring, now gone, this game they’d been playing nightly, (Mom points to an empty spot on the shelf) the ups, the downs, muted pinks and the blues. This game they’d been playing nightly, “to keep him sharp,” she offers, the downs, ups, muted pinks and blues, those thumb-rubbed tiles and […]
Against Patience
Oh yes, I believed in rewards, white steeds, crossed fingers. But now? Give me the moon’s agitation, its fits and starts, its hoodwinking heart. See how it pretends to finish, only to rub out the canvas and invent itself again. Clouds do not stay still; the seasons are not idle. What good has patience done […]
Elizabeth Volpe Q&A on her poem “Scrabble”
Elizabeth Volpe talks about the genesis of her poem “Scrabble.”
Elizabeth Volpe Q&A on coming to poetry
Elizabeth Volpe talks about how she came to write poetry.