Poetry

Reading: White Comedy by Benjamin Zephaniah
Benjamin Zephaniah (b. 1958) is a British-Jamaican poet who has considerable influence in contemporary poetry. He was born in Birmingham to a Barbadian father and Jamaican mother. As a child, he developed dyslexia and was imprisoned for burglary. He is also the author of novels for teenagers and a notable animal rights activist. He refused ...
All is mathematics
The wind is mathematics, and your tear ducts me insisting we continue, the curvature of your smile the rock you sat down on, the ocean that sighed in your stead the proof that life is a theorem, which can never be proven to be one
Reading: Fog by Amy Clampitt
Amy Clampitt (1920-1994) from Iowa wrote most of her poetry when she was over sixty. I found a poem entitled 'fog' that I like because of its precise description: Fog A vagueness comes over everything, as though proving color and contour alike dispensable: the lighthouse extinct, the islands' spruce-tips drunk up like milk in the ...
Oh, you want praise and recognition and above all money. But if that was your true motive, you would have done something else. All this fame and honor is a very nice thing, as long as you don't believe it. - Howard Nemerov
Reading: Jane by Howard Moss
American poet, dramatist and critic Howard Moss (1922-1987) won the National Book Award in 1972 for his selected poetry. He was the poetry editor of the New Yorker for almost forty years and a great discoverer of poets. Moss also wrote a funny illustrated book of writer's parodies called 'instant lives'. I read 'Jane', a poem ...
porn is the betrayed idyll that came looking for itself
Reading: Another Species by Peter Kane Dufault
American poet Peter Kane Dufault (1923 - 2013) was also a tree surgeon, pollster, fiddler and banjo-player. His writing career spans nearly sixty years. Here a simple poem about species extinction, because it is a topic I am upset about: Another Species Kestrel too? Dwindling now? That small falcon somehow quarried out of a rainbow ...
Reading: The Ghost In The Martini by Antony Evan Hecht
Anthony Evan Hecht (1923-2004) was born in New York. His parents hated his ambition to become a poet. He fought in WW II and was traumatized by te horrific accounts of the French prisoners of Flossenburg, the concentration camp his division liberated, leading to a nervous breakdown in 1959. I read soemthing light today, it's ...