poetry
A man on a bicycle.Does he strain into his vocal cordsbecause he is angry, wonderwhy he is riding on this trackgoing around in circlesas his life seems to veer offin jagged directions, no winding
What constitutes reality and what is merely enticing fantasy?
First cited in the sixteenth century (specifically in a book called Dice-Play), the expression [brown study]—which describes a state of intense, sometimes melancholy reverie, really seems to have hit i
of the need for lyricwhispers and fingertipsbehind my earlike a distant melody
of dappled water that flowswhere tulips opentheir soft petals spreadinglike a morning yawn
Solid as fish shimmerleaping from the skyto regain its ground,its Rock River,its Seine.
This bluethis morning is mere garmentsde mes mémoires faibles.
At the birth of a third daughter, on the eve of world war,my grandfather refused to look at heror come in from the barn.In that old country, deepwithin my newborn mother,in my invisible ovary home,
Poet. Teacher. Mentor. Maker. It has taken Dasha Kelly Hamilton decades to find a fitting title for her role.
Join poet Angela Voras-Hills for a course that will focus on the possibilities of poetry, encouraging participants to broaden their writing by experimenting with craft, voice, perspective, and form.
Mary Wehner shares a reading of her prizewinning poems from the Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry Contest.
Hansa Kerman Pistotnik reads “Salvation Doesn’t Come, her prizewinning poem from the 2017 Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry Contest, along with a few others.
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