This is one of favorite pictures of James Wright…it’s just the way I imagine him! Yesterday was his birthday. He would have been 80 years old. James was born in Martin’s Ferry, Ohio… more →
My Inner Edgethomasbrady wrote 6 hours ago: Freedom such as you get on a poetry site like Scarriet comes at a price — you get to have any … more →
clockwatcher23 wrote 6 days ago: Since I’ve got horses on my mind, and poetry, and Minnesota, here’s another poem, too … more →
msbaroque wrote 1 week ago: What! No bovine brain matter!? So, a lovely-looking wall painting has won the Turner Prize. I know t … more →
featherheart wrote 1 week ago: SMALL FROGS KILLED ON THE HIGHWAY by James Wright Still, I would leap too Into the light, If I had t … more →
mattbeagle wrote 3 weeks ago: This is one of my favorite poems and I always take it out this time of year to read a few times, so … more →
Jane Beal wrote 1 month ago: Two athletes are dancing in the cathedral of the wind. A butterfly lights on the branch of your gree … more →
englishnationalopera wrote 1 month ago: JAMES WRIGHT, Community Ensemble Participant My feelings were bandaged on account of the frostbite. … more →
oho wrote 1 month ago: That line has been floating around my head all day. There’s something puzzling about it. It … more →
featherheart wrote 1 month ago: Beginning by James Wright The moon drops one or two feathers into the field. The dark wheat listens. … more →
joyfuleyes wrote 1 month ago: . While I stood here, in the open, lost in myself, I must have looked a long time Down the co … more →
csbhagya wrote 1 month ago: Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota Lying in a Hammock at William D … more →
southernpoet wrote 2 months ago: Tell Me a Story – Robert Penn Warren Words and the Diminution of All Things – Charles Wr … more →
poietes wrote 2 months ago: Blue River, Henry County, Indiana by Julayne “Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.” ~ Walt … more →
featherheart wrote 2 months ago: Depressed By A Book Of Bad Poetry, I Walk Toward An Unused Pasture And Invite The Insects To Join Me … more →
Weston Cutter wrote 3 months ago: Franz Wright’s the only writer whose book I’ve stolen from a library, and his The Before … more →
cvirginia wrote 3 months ago: James Wright Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota “Over my hea … more →
Andrew Eastman wrote 4 months ago: Dartmouth College alumnus Joe Malchow, whose Dartblog web log won the America’s Future Foundat … more →
genemyers wrote 4 months ago: After Baptism there is the new life. After the harsh industrialized landscapes of steel mills and sl … more →
symonsezwlky wrote 4 months ago: Louisville Flooding Peter Hodgson On this date in History: During World War II, true rubber was a … more →