Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

The funeral for my partner's mother is today. Here's "The Truth the Dead Know" by Anne Sexton courtesy of the Poetry Foundation.

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

Because I'm still in a Canadian state of mind, here's a fitting poem by Leonard Cohen. Read "All There is to Know About Adolph Eichmann" courtesy of the Read A Little Poetry website. 

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This morning, we are focusing on Canadian poet Margaret Avison. Here's a summer-ish poem of hers (it has swimmer" from the Poetry in Voice website. Read "The Swimmer's Moment."

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Thanks to Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey once again, I've discovered poet Tiana Clark. Read her poem "My Therapist Wants to Know about My Relationship to Work" thanks to the Poetry Foundation.

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Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey recently recommended a collection by peot Omotara James, and I'm grateful for the recommendation. Read her poem "Tripartite" over at Coffee House Press.

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To mark Lindsey Graham's death, here is a brutal and necessary poem by Mohammed El-Kurd. Read "Tonight We Die as a Family" over at The Poetry Society.

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Pride Month is done, but I'd like to feature Emma Wells, a Pride staple at Oddball Magazine. Her poem "Fall" comes courtesy of Spillwords.

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In light of the Great American State Fair, here's the poem "State Fair Fireworks, Labor Day" by Maryann Corbett, courtesy of the Poetry Foundation site.

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You deserve a modern poet for Pride Month. So here's the stunning "Ravens Aren’t Songbirds, and We’ll Never Meet Again" from the latest issue of beestung.

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Adrienne Rich is our Pride feature of the week. Thanks to Poets.org for reprinting "Twenty-One Love Poems [Poem II]."

 

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To continue Pride Month, here's Walt Whitman's "I Sing the Body Electric" at the Poetry Foundation website. Here's hoping Trump quotes him during the 250 festival or whatever is going on next month.

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People in their outrage forget that Allen Ginsberg belongs to the poets who are celebrated during Pride Month. Read "Footnote to Howl" on the Poetry Foundation website. 

 

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Ending May and Stone Soup's fifty-fifth anniversary month with an eye on the criminally underpublished Walter Howard, who passed away in 2018. Here is his poem "Old Deacon Blackbird" from my old zine Spoonful.

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William J. Barnum passed away in 2019. I miss his existence in our world. Sadly, this is another poet whose work isn't online very much. In fact, nearly all his work online is because of me. Some of his work is on the old Stone Soup online journal Spoonful, Some of it is on my YouTube. Today, I'm focusing on this excerpt from his poem “Pierrot, The Wanderer,” courtesy of Oddball Magazine, which I also edit.

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Joanna Nealon, the woman I dubbed the matriarch of Stone Soup Poetry, passed away in November. Though her books are still available to buy online, almost none of her poems are published online in journals. None except the ones I published in the old Stone Soup adjacent journal Spoonful years ago. Read  "Narcissus Speaks" and 
"Spring Again" in issue #4.

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This May I'll mark Stone Soup's fifty-fifth anniversary by featuring some of its lost friends. I'll start with John Wieners, who passed away in 2002. Here is his poem "Forthcoming," courtesy of Poets.org.

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For the last Wednesday of National Poetry Month, I'm featuring Jennifer Martelli, another recently lost local poet. Read her poem, "To Be Stevie Nicks Cool" over at New Ohio Review.

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I'll spend this week and next focusing on poets who are no longer with us. Today, let us read "A Poem for Happy Endings" by the late Charles Coe. Thanks to Solstice Literary Magazine. 

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People on my Facebook feed share poems all the time. ONe that really got to me was "The Committee Weighs In" by Andrea Cohen. Read it over at The Threepenny Review.

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Thanks to TikTocker and YouTuber Kaelin for posting this Instagram post by Lucas Jones. Read "This country is an abusive parent" on his page. Or you can listen to it in a video version I found on Reddit.