Restoring Pontormo’s Veronica
I swear he breathed down my neck. I smelled his pungent manhood, grimy crusts on his pant thighs he was no faint knight— a madman in...
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- May 12
- 2 min
Sappho Fragments 2, 55, and 58
Sappho, fragment 2 (Lobel-Page 2 / Voigt 2 / Diehl 5, 6 / Bergk 4, 5) Come, Cypris, from Cretea to meet me at this holy temple where a...
By Richard Katrovas
- May 12
- 1 min
A Riff on Abstraction
"Evil is the systematic substitution of the abstract for the concrete." —Sartre As in “concrete” as well as “abstract,” and though I...
By Adam Sedia
- May 12
- 13 min
Profiles in Poetry: Robert Frost
“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” —Robert Frost To many in America, Robert Frost is the grandfatherly originator of “The...
By Johnny Payne
- May 11
- 2 min
Natural Bridge Suite
I Steep path, up the limestone stair, sediment and sand hardened to bedrock, yet porous. Groundwater flowing through, that reinvents the...
By Mathew Ehret
- May 11
- 22 min
Edgar Allan Poe’s Metaphysics: Rediscovering “Eureka”
"What I here propound is true: — therefore it cannot die: — or if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will “rise again...
By Jeffrey Essmann
- May 7
- 1 min
Angels & Other Poetry
Angels Perhaps it’s simply age that makes it hard To recognize the world as someplace where An inner spirit once itself declared, A...
By David B. Gosselin
- Apr 26
- 2 min
The Spanish Knight — A Historical Ballad
Wa le ghalib il Allah (God is the only victor) —Muhamed Ibn-l-Ahmar, founder of the Alhambra Palace He rode across the star-engulfed...
By John H. B. Martin
- Apr 20
- 14 min
Beyond the Lines: Shakespeare's ''Phoenix and the Turtle''
This is a poem I have known and loved for as long as I can remember. It has exerted a charm and fascination for me simply by virtue of...
