The poem refreshes life so that we share,
For a moment, the first idea....It satisfies
Belief in an immaculate beginning.

WALLACE STEVENS

I love how poetry articulates what can't be othewise.

there's like two spots left

classroom.ruthstonehouse.org/product/the-...

maybe this is where all my really depressed posts can live

That face. I know it well.

Joy talking to Kevin Young NYr Poetry Podcast about Franz Wright's poem "Learning to Read" & my own "What's Poetry Like," consciousness on the page; heredity in poetry; the traumas of living, given voice & faith with the reader on the page. The gifts of reading!

www.newyorker.com/podcast/poet...

new books for the fall