to crave what the light does crave to shelter, to flee to gain desire of every splayed leaf to calm cattle, to heat the mare to coax dead flies back from slumber to turn the gaze of each opened bud to ripe the fruit to rot the fruit and drive down under the earth to […]
The day spools up its turbines of light, The systematic rupture of rock-doves From the roofs, steady repetition Of wind through the trees, the fresh-plowed Weed-break at the field’s end, sweet stalks Coming into corn where the truest augury Is the kingbird in the mind. Across the mitigation a birch crushed the wire Though the […]
The first sturdy bee begins To cross-pollinate the few flowers Opened around the house. It is March seventy degrees. Last week saw snow on the ground. A mosquito siphons my arm And I do not smash it, stunned As we are by being here. Four lambs were born And one is in the recycling bin […]
Kevin Goodan, author of The Ghost House Acquainted (Alice James Books, 2004), talks about how he determines the form a poem will take.
Kevin Goodan, author of The Ghost House Acquainted (Alice James Books, 2004), talks about how he became interested in poetry.
Kevin Goodan, author of The Ghost House Acquainted (Alice James Books, 2004), with some advice for young writers.
Kevin Goodan talks about reading his poems aloud when he writes.
Kevin Goodan, author of The Ghost House Acquainted (Alice James Books, 2004), recommends three additional poets for Fishouse listeners to explore, including Patrick Donnelly.