The physicality of life and the ache that it can bring – through love, death, sex, and survival – makes Robbin’s writing visceral and emotive and painful and beautiful all at the same time.
And We’re Back.
We Are Back! It’s been almost three years since I hit the “new post” on this here website. I had hit a wall, and felt that I…… Read more “And We’re Back.”
POWER OF POETRY #34: “Some Slightly Connected Thoughts on Crafted Vulnerability, Stage Fright, Beauty, and Gratitude” – STEVIE EDWARDS
I am trying to write poems that stand inside of uncertainty and still find things to praise. And I don’t think it matters if I praise my sore legs that keep walking me home from work each night, or if I praise the relief of night rain in my first Carolinian July, or if I praise an idea of a home I miss, or if I praise the mild infection in my right nipple for not being cancer, or if I praise my friend who has stomach cancer but keeps living beyond the rational limits doctors have suggested—it is all praising living. It is all beholding the terrible beautiful uncertainty of being human and saying thank you. I don’t think there’s anything more beautiful than gratitude, and poetry helps me to access it.
THE POWER OF POETRY #33: AMY SAUL-ZERBY
THE POWER OF POETRY – Amy Saul-Zerby In order to explain the power of poetry to you, I need you to understand about metaphors. EXAMPLE:…… Read more “THE POWER OF POETRY #33: AMY SAUL-ZERBY”
REVIEW: GUNMETAL BLUE – JASON ALLEN (JANE’S BOY PRESS)
Because I did not die in the log cabin where I was born I shoulder the Green Mountains everywhere I go, breathing best when the leaves…… Read more “REVIEW: GUNMETAL BLUE – JASON ALLEN (JANE’S BOY PRESS)”
THE POWER OF POETRY #32: LEE ANN RORIPAUGH – SOUTH DAKOTA’S POET LAUREATE
LEE ANN RORIPAUGH – SOUTH DAKOTA’S POET LAUREATE Poetry is the shape-shifting ouroboros of language, image, sound, form, and content held in infinite tension. It is the…… Read more “THE POWER OF POETRY #32: LEE ANN RORIPAUGH – SOUTH DAKOTA’S POET LAUREATE”
THE POWER OF POETRY #31: SARA HENNING
The Power of Poetry – Sara Henning I’d like to tell you a story about life’s untamable narrative that leaves us transformed. In other words, I’d…… Read more “THE POWER OF POETRY #31: SARA HENNING”
