Posted by Reverie on December 26, 1996 at 03:05:20:
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Reverie welcomes grepoetry. A weekly internet poetry journal edited by Greg Perry. grepoetry #18 (Seasonal Chromosome) is posted! Something new just for fun. Each week grepoetry will have a different The Links below have been REPAIRED!! Marks My husband gives me an A --Linda Pastan, 1978 Even in sleep her face changes, Linda Pastan, copyright 1994 Just as it did Linda Pastan, copyright 1995 We love each landscape Linda Pastan 3. NETPOEMS of the week: 4. YOURPOEM of the Week: 5. GREPOEM of the Week: 6. Washingtonpost.com's 'Poet's Choice' 7. Slate's Poem of the Week: ****A newsletter EXTRA from this Sundays LA Times Book Review**** After the Poetry Reading, by Maxine Kumin If Emily Dickinson lived in From 'Connecting the Dots' by Maxine Kumin (W. Remember the Powwow River Poets. You may be interested in its poetry And as usual, if you don't want this newsletter, tell me. I'll Thanks for reading and writing.
journal title. I always love the titles of journals and ezines. This
weeks name: Seasonal Chromosome. Winter Solstice, The Holidays, The
imprint they have left upon our imagination, on our soul. Suggestions
are welcome for future editions.
(if your e-mail client supports URL hyperlinks, click on the URLs below
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1. POET of the Week:
http://www.seacoast.com/~greperry/poemlink.htm
The POET of the week this week is Linda Pastan.
They're aren't that many links, and the
majority are from Atlantic Unbound (grat site!).
One of our readers (hint: his
poem is our 'yourpoem' this week says:
'always they show amateur writing
classes poem by Pastan, she writes so
lucidly nobody can believe it.' I think
that says enough. Not all. I discovered
her through the 'Atalantic Unbound',
and purchased her latest from Amazon
Books; for me, she is truly an internet
discovery. I'm stretching here I know,
but in keeping with this week's theme:
her poetry is pure equipoise. And
various as the fallen snow. Please, read....
The following poems are NOT linked from grepoetry.
Pure newsletter extras!
for last night's supper,
an incomplete for my ironing,
a B plus in bed.
My son says I am average,
an average mother, but if
I put my mind to it
I could improve.
My daughter believes
in Pass/Fail and tells me
I pass. Wait 'til they learn
I'm dropping out.
THE NEWBORN: for Anna with Love
as if every weather
were passing over its surface
just for a moment: sun
and storms, a chill
at the nostrils, the moderating
climate of a half formed smile.
They are all there the emotions
that are not yet even a dream
in her future. You can see them
in the way the fist uncurls
at the end of her arm
like a long stemmed rose,
or in the frantic way
her mouth searches, driven now
by a craving for milk,
that old thirst in the genes.
ANNA AT 18 MONTHS
for Eve,
language comes
tumbling in, word
by parroted word
as she names
the world
again--
each beast and plant,
each thing.
For the floodgates
are open wide
and out of her dauntless
mouth spill
roughhewn syllables
for elbow, eyes
for chin.
And touched
by the wand
of the word, roused
from the alphabet's sleep,
new thoughts flutter awake
like butterflies utterly
changed,
like her damp flirtatious
lashes, beating
their tiny wings.
CAMPING AT THE HEADLANDS OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK
as if it were a part
of our human body,
even the desert
with its waterless beaches;
even the craters of the moon--
those blistered rocks
we christen with the names
of our desire.
Limbs of trees we say,
or foothills,
or bodies of water,
and it is more than metaphor we mean
when we take the river
into our arms.
2. POETICS of the Week:
http://www.seacoast.com/~greperry/poetlink
The Poetics of the week this week is
entitled 'Nine poets to read all year
long' from Salon. A poem and interview
from the likes of Kay Ryan, Mark Doty,
Eamon Grennan, Galway Kinnell,
George Evans, Sue Kwock Kim, Jane
Hirshfield, Robert Pinsky, and Killarney
Clary.
http://www.seacoast.com/~greperry/netlink.htm
'NetPoems' of the week are from John
Amato, Barry Elms, and Mark Phillips.
Representations of the father, the mother,
the son, the spirit. Amato's two poems:
different faces of a particular coin. Elms
three revisions: the footsteps of
adolescence. And Phillips: the anatomy
of the soul.
http://www.seacoast.com/~greperry/yourlink.htm
The 'yourpoem of the week' features
'January' by Ernest Slyman: a
precursor to the coming month ahead,
the coming days ahead, the coming
inevitable endless emptiness ahead.
Sung with a mythic round that reaches
to the very ends of that unbroken circle
of seasons. 'Tis the season to 'hold
sacred the berries'.
http://www.seacoast.com/~greperry/placlink
My grepoem this week is titled 'Toy
Story'. A philosophical treatise in the
tradition of the Grinch. The biography of
the child that was father to the man. A
primer concerning nautical illusion.
Witness Spot disappear...
Link to Washington Post's BookWorld:
'Little Town of Bethlehem'
Robin Becker
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/BOOKS/
the 1990s
and let herself have sex
appeal
she'd grow her hair wild
and electric
down to her buttocks, you
said. She'd wear
magenta tights, black ankle
socks
and tiny pointed paddock
boots.
Intrigued, I saw how Emily'd
master Microsoft, how she'd
fax the versicles that
Higginson
advised her not to print
to MS
APR and Thirteenth Moon.
She'd read aloud at benefits
address the weaver's guild
the garden club, the
anarchists
Catholics for free choice
welfare moms, the
Wouldbegoods
and the Temple Sinai
sisterhood.
Thinking the same thing,
silent
we see Emily flamboyant.
Her words for the century
to come
are pithy, oxymoronic.
Her fly buzzes me all the way
home.
W. Norton: 86 pp., $18.95). Copyright 1996
Copyright Los Angeles Times
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