‘Enigma’: A Poem by Steve Cooper
. . . Steve Cooper is a retired professional career counselor. He lives near Salem, Oregon. He has one traditionally...
Shape Poems
A Poem on Japanese Suiseki Stones, by Margaret Coats
. Suiseki Rainfall has stopped; it’s the best time for hunting a stone. Drizzle still dampens debris; Trees put forth...
‘Peach Blossom Dreaming’ by Margaret Coats
. Peach Blossom Dreaming Peach blossoms furnish inwrought dreaming room Intangible to fingertips corrupt; __Substantially beyond each tapered petal’s plume...
‘Music of the Contours’ by Phillip Whidden
. Music of the Contours part of "A Double Unfinished Symphony" sonnet sequence The way that curls sway lovelier than...
‘Hagi at My Study Window’ and Other Late Summer Poems, by Margaret Coats
. Hagi at My Study Window hagi or bush clover, a symbol of poetry, blooms as summer turns to autumn....
‘Cherry Blossom Viewing’ by Margaret Coats
. Cherry Blossom Viewing Like someone else, in unaccustomed dress, I choose that silken smoothness graze my skin __As fragile...
Essay: On George Herbert’s ‘Easter Wings’
by Jane Blanchard George Herbert was born into a well-to-do and well-doing family of Montgomery, Wales, in 1593. When he...
Yes, Bruce, you rightly identify Bellini's Francis as having an "upward gaze," that word "gaze" being important in both Brian…
The XAXA rhyme scheme is deftly handled, and is perfectly suited to the subject matter. The lines could have been…
Thanks for the read, Mark. You get no argument from me. Voting is typically a “lesser of the evils” exercise…
Thank you Margaret, for this fascinating set of comments, especially regarding the academic speakers. As for the Symposium, it was…
Russel, you choose an excellent topic in conversation and discernment of all that goes on in-and-around it. From my point…
