poetry
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Poet’s corner: To come alive in spring
These words in this poem by James Crews help us feel the energy and strength of the little coltsfoot flower rising up, or of the many other things…
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Jim Samler writes a quirky book of poems
Jim Samler, who taught art at Otter Valley Union High School for 28 years before retiring in 2014, says his inspiration for the book came not only from…
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Letter to the editor: Snowbird
I don’t know whether to ride/ my mower or push my snow-blower./ Given what April brings to us.
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Community poem heaps praise, love on Bristol
“Love Notes to Bristol” is a crowdsourced poetry project, a web of life spun by dozens of community members, whose moments of admiration, cherishing and yearning can be…
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Poet’s corner: Images of peace for Ukraine
Seeds of Peace these warriors of peace the unstoppable the brave with resilience they fight for the love of their families to defend their homes for the…
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Letter to the editor: Sing, Etzuri — a poem with Ukrainian roots
Like you, I have a name behind/my name./Scratched inside my throat.
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Poet’s Corner: Thumbprints
Snow falls lightly/ as if no fires rage/ across the world.
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Poet’s corner: An odd beautiful world
Thank you for drawing the crow/ outside my window./ Thank you for drawing the wrinkled bittersweet berries/ brightening the blighted ash.
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Poet’s corner: Blue mists of winter
When I look for wisdom tonight/ I find aphorism in the mountain’s white ridge,/ shining in moonlight like a possible/ future to have faith in.
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Poetry: Cases on campus
What you say you’ve been waiting for. A break from studying. A reprieve from your exams. An excuse from finishing your term papers. To go home. But not…
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Poet’s corner: An autumn radiance
I’ve always admired poems that take the mundane events of our lives and imbue them with a luster that lingers nearby, but that often goes unnoticed.
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Poet’s Corner: To have traced the tracks…
Did I dream when we were young and full of hope, we’d always dance all night, work all day without a sign of weariness?
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103-year-old gives poetry reading
Naomi Replansky was a finalist for the 1952 National Book Award in Poetry and the 2014 Poets’ Prize and Winner of the Poet Society of America’s 2013 William…
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Cornwall poet reflects on four decades of work
“I write the way a tortoise runs, although occasionally, instead of a hare, I pull a poem out of a hat,” said Michael Collier, who recently published a…
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Poet’s corner: Cosmic streams and mountain dreams
THROUGH THE WILDERNESS by Toussaint St. Negritude Through the wilderness of my freedom through territories uncharted for corporate consumption through cogent dreams and cosmic streams I have climbed…
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Poetry: Call Richard Webb
Before the wind takes it. Before the voles make a home of it.Or a trunk-borer. Before the orioles weave one nest too many.Or later, in December, the snow…