It is 2009 and you and I struggle with the same things we struggled with last year and the year before and for example I read Simic’s translation of Janevski, Slavko called the Bandit Wind and r… more →
The Stale, Continuedwebbnorriswebb wrote 1 week ago: This month, we’re featuring TWO LINKS about Bruce Davidson and his exhibitions in New York, TW … more →
oho wrote 3 weeks ago: I like this poem by Amy Lowell: Autumn They brought me a quilled, yellow dahlia, Opulent, flaunting … more →
codyraymond wrote 3 weeks ago: When I look closely at what I admire about certain pieces of literature I find myself popping a quar … more →
Daniel Casey wrote 3 weeks ago: Sixty Poems, Charles Simic, Harvest Books Throughout this collection, Simic captures what can be saf … more →
translating for peas wrote 1 month ago: I left parts of myself everywhere The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas Whose colo … more →
molossus wrote 1 month ago: Dark Things, Novica Tadić, tr. by Charles Simic. (BOA Editions LTD) $16 Dark Things is a short selec … more →
Margaret Diehl wrote 2 months ago: I want to lose fifteen or twenty pounds, and every now and then I feel determined, certain I can cut … more →
genemyers wrote 2 months ago: Charles Simic was the U.S. Poet Laureate last year and has won numerous prizes for his work, includi … more →
gron wrote 2 months ago: Poetry Dispatch No. 293 | September 15, 2009 THE TOAD by Charles Simic It’ll be a while before … more →
wolfwriter wrote 2 months ago: He who cannot howl, will not find his pack.” Charles Simic I’ve been writing, or rewriting, my … more →
BDCB wrote 3 months ago: Charles Simic, the fifteenth Poet Laureate of the United States, will be appearing at New York Unive … more →
Daniel Romo wrote 3 months ago: My poetry changed for the better when I first read Charles Simic a few months ago. It’s refre … more →
supriyanna wrote 3 months ago: Everything about you, my life, is both make-believe and real. We are like a couple working the night … more →
bevaristo wrote 4 months ago: Rob A. Mackenzie was born in Glasgow. He studied law and then abandoned the possibility of significa … more →
supriyanna wrote 4 months ago: The obvious is difficult To prove. Many prefer The hidden. I did, too. I listened to the trees. They … more →
Mike Theune wrote 4 months ago: There has been a great deal of fuss made over the latest issue of Poetry. The July/August 2009 issu … more →
gbem1 wrote 6 months ago: It is 2009 and you and I struggle with the same things we struggled with last year and the year befo … more →
featherheart wrote 6 months ago: Happy Birthday… Poet Charles Simic (1938 - ) … more →
Caleb wrote 6 months ago: One of the panels this year at AWP was apparently literature about libraries. I love libraries. Ever … more →