Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life, Part One
I thought I knew Denise Levertov. In the 1970s, she and my husband were both part of the English department faculty at Tufts University. He was writing about the Beat poets, whom Denise had known well,...
View ArticleDenise Levertov: A Poet’s Life, Part Two
Yesterday, in Part One of my review of the major new biography, Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life, by Dana Greene, I focused on Greene’s information and insights into Levertov’s life. Today I turn to the...
View ArticleThe Harboring Silence, Part 1
The following editorial statement from issue 86 of Image is adapted from a commencement address given at the Seattle Pacific University MFA in creative writing graduation in Santa Fe on August 8, 2015....
View ArticleThe Harboring Silence, Part 2
Continued from yesterday. The following editorial statement from issue 86 of Image is adapted from a commencement address given at the Seattle Pacific University MFA in creative writing graduation in...
View ArticlePoetry Friday: “Meditation on Soteriology”
Karen An-Hwei Lee lays out her poem “Meditation on Soteriology” so that it looks at first like prose. But you don’t have to read far before you see the wild conjunction of images as poetry. “Paradises...
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