It's April 30, the last day of Poetry Month. Or is it the first day in the rest of your POETRY LIFE? (Just agree it's the second one; it'll make me happy.) We thought we'd cap our celebrations by sharing poems by two outstanding past Poetry Fellows: Patrick Donnelly's Oxygen Catastrophe and Ben Berman's Endings. Patrick is a Deerfield poet with one published collection, … [Read more...]
Poetry Month: Pastoral by Kristin Bock
When we commemorate Poetry Month with poems by Massachusetts-honored artists, we're really commemorating all art forms. By artists everywhere. With poems. My proof? Well, I don't really have proof - can such a statement be proved? - but what I have, as Exhibit A, is Kristin Bock (Poetry Fellow '06), who said in an ArtSake interview that the origins of her poetry could be … [Read more...]
Poetry Month: a NaPoWriMo poem by Simeon Berry
As you may have noticed, we've been celebrating National Poetry Month by periodically sharing poems by some of our past honored artists. But some local poets are being much more literal about their Poetry Month. Take Simeon Berry (Poetry Fellow '06): he's undertaking the NaPoWriMo challenge - that is, to write at least one poem a day, all month. You can follow his intriguing … [Read more...]
Poetry Month: I Abandoned My Plans. I Had No Plans. by Michael Teig
We could've celebrated National Poetry Month with a series of decorative, commemorative plates. But in the end, it seemed a tad more intuitive to celebrate with actual poetry (though we have nothing against plates, Plate Fans!). Today's poem is by Michael Teig (Poetry Fellow '08), about a common phenomenon of Spring's warmer temperatures: the lazy man. I ABANDONED MY PLANS. … [Read more...]
Poetry Month: Enough to make the chickens roost at noon by Caroline Berry Klocksiem
Our next poem commemorating National Poetry Month is by Caroline Berry Klocksiem (Poetry Fellow '08), imagining the surreal meteorology of the American Plains, this very day, 75 years ago. Enough to make the chickens roost at noon April 14, 1935 Nervous bird chatter then flatlining hush over miles the day grows dark as crow The day so black the air was smoke heavy like … [Read more...]