POETRY MONDAY: May 7, 2012
Roberta Feins
Poet Roberta Feins was born inNew Yorkand lives in Seattle, where she works as a computer consultant. She received her MFA in poetry in 2007 from New England College. Her poems, one of which received first prize in the 2010 Women in Judaism Magazine poetry contest, have been published in a number of other fine journals, including Five A.M., Antioch Review, and The (more…)
POETRY MONDAY: April 2, 2012
Nina Corwin
Nina Corwin is the author of two books of poetry, The Uncertainty of Maps (CW Books, Spring, 2011) and Conversations With Friendly Demons and Tainted Saints. Her poetry appears or in ACM, Forklift OH, Hotel Amerika, New Ohio Review/nor, Poetry East, Southern Poetry Review and Verse, and (more…)
Click Here to Read: The Q&A with Adam Phillips: Poetry as therapy on the Economist website on March 29th 2012.
Arnold Richards
It’s no secret – and certainly not to the readers of these pages – that psychoanalysts are deeply interested in poetry. For that reason, our featured poet this month, the Editor-in-Chief of International Psychoanalysis, should not be a total surprise. The best response to a poem, it has been said, is another poem, and Arnold Richards is one whose response to poems is immediate and sensitive.
His professional role is familiar to many of you. Editor of JAPA (Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association) from 1994 to 2003 and the author of numerous books and papers in the field, he is currently a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. He was awarded a 2000 Mary F. Sigourney Award and gave the 50th Annual Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture. (more…)
POETRY MONDAY : February 6, 2012
Those of us who love poetry – and I assume that’s all of our readers – must have been saddened by the news that we have lost another luminary. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska died on February 1 of this year at the age of 88.
There hasn’t been enough time to get permission to re-print her poems or her photo here, but I can recommend a definitive collection of her work. Poems New and Collected 1957-1997, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, won the 1996 PEN Translation Prize and was published by Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1998. Because she published so few poems in (more…)
Susan Shaw Sailer
Is there, can there be, anything worse than failure to protect those we have the responsibility to protect? Perhaps what’s worse is making money from that neglect and treating the death of human beings as “collateral damage.” This is (more…)
No photo of a smiling poet and three poems this time. Instead, as the aftermath of a sad November, we are giving you some prose for Poetry Monday: “In Memoriam,” “Déjà vu” and “A Brief Review.”
First, the memorial. One of our finest, belatedly but still insufficiently recognized American poets, Ruth Stone, died on November 19 at the age of 96. Not only as a poet but as a person, she was a marvel. A fan of hers for years, (more…)
Irina Mashinski
I’m pleased to introduce our November poet, a bilingual poet and translator who emigrated from the former Soviet Unionin 1991. Irina Mashinski has authored seven books of poetry in Russian. Her most recent collections are Volk (Wolf) (Moscow: NLO, 2009) and Raznochinets pervyi sneg I drugie stikhotvoreniia (Raznochinets First Snow and Other Poems) (New York: Stosvet Press, 2009). Her work has also appeared in a variety of literary journals and anthologies, including Poetry International, Fulcrum, Zeek, The (more…)
Click Here to Read: Swedish Poet Wins Nobel Prize for Literature By Julie Bosman in the New York Times on October 6, 2011.
Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer at his home in Stockholm on Thursday after receiving the news that he won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.
POETRY MONDAY OCTOBER 3rd, 2011
Chris Fogg
This month brings us our first poet from the U.K., Chris Fogg, whose book of poems and stories, Special Relationships, was published this year by Mudlark Press. Born in Manchester, he now lives in West Dorset with his wife, Amanda, a dance practitioner working with older people and those with Parkinson’s. It was through Amanda, when she was in the U.S. on a Winston Churchill (more…)
To our readers:
Today is Independence Day in the U.S.A. It’s a day of parades and celebration — with fireworks, picnics, and days off from work. Apropos of that, please note that Poetry Monday will be on vacation until September. Have a wonderful summer, and be sure to look for us
then.
Irene Willis
Poetry Editor
Click Here to Read: Paper by Douglas Kirsner: Saving Psychoanalysts: Ernest Jones and the Isakowers.
This paper originally appeard as Kirsner, D. (2007). Saving Psychoanalysts: Ernest Jones and the Isakowers. Psychoanalytic. Histsory 9:83-91 and zappears here with all requisite rights and permission.
Click Here to Read: Review of Charles B. Strozier’s Book: Heinz Kohut, The Making of a Psychoanalyst, Reviewed by Douglas Kirsner on this website.
Douglas Kirsner
POETRY MONDAY: June 4, 2011
Arlene Kramer Richards
Our poet today is someone many of you already know as a colleague. A practicing psychoanalyst in Manhattan, she is a Training and Supervising Analyst, New York Freudian Society; Fellow, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; member APsaA and IPA; co-editor of Fantasy, Myth and Reality: Essays in Honor of Jacob Arlow (IUP, 1988), and author of numerous papers on female sexuality, perversion and gambling. (more…)
Sonnet for Sigmund Freud’s Birthday
He saw the light in images in dreams
When words had fled and left the wandering night
Without a sign to guide it. The past it seems
And present in cahoots took great delight
Creating maps that led nowhere, Escher
Stairs that climbed to upsidedowns beyond
All reason where a principle of pleasure
Ruled with blind mis-rule and black was blonde.
He saw the light in such confusion, saw
The face in condensation where all faces
Were spit and image of another, where law
And order lived in chaos. Of all places!
The dream then whispered in his ear and said:
“It was I who put the nightlight in your head.”
Eugene Mahon Rapallo May 2011
A Poem for Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 1
Holocaust Memorial Day
At dawn
The dead arose again,
Millions of specters
Brighter than the sun.
By noon
The stench of memory
Was unbearable,
As if all graves
Re-opened, (more…)
POETRY MONDAY: May 4, 2011
Gigi Marks
Here is a poet whose lovely work was unknown to me before, although she already has many readers. A collection of her poetry, What We Need, was published by Shortline Editions in 1998, and her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry, Poetry, Prairie Schooner and other well-known publications. Her chapbook, Shelter, has just been published by Autumn House Press, and a new, full- (more…)
Click Here to Read: Press Release: British Library Acquires The Archive Of Wendy Cope on the Book Trade info website on April 20, 2011.
Wendy Cope
POETRY MONDAY: April 4, 2011
Since this is National Poetry Month, we are doing something slightly different from our usual Poetry Monday. Instead of featuring new poems, we invite you to scroll back through our archives to the very beginning of this (more…)
DAVID GIANNINI
I’m especially pleased today to welcome this multi-faceted and multi-talented poet to our pages. David Giannini has published over thirty collections of poetry, most recently AZ II (Adastra Press), a “Featured Book” in the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, and How Else? (Longhouse Publishers). His book of prose poems, Span of Thread, will soon be published by Cervena Barva Press, and a long out-of-print prose poem collage, Rim, will be republished shortly by Quale Press. His poems also appear in many national and international literary magazines and anthologies. (more…)
Lori Desrosiers
As those of you who scroll through our archives will discover, we have featured many well-known poets as well as emerging poets who are not as well-known but may yet become so. Lori Desrosiers, with her own fine poems and with the many good things she is doing for poetry, is one of the latter group. For all the poetry-lovers and poets in Western Massachusetts she publishes a weekly online Poetry News, without which we would hardly know what is happening in our poetry community. For everyone else – and especially those who still love or are just awakening to the joys of good narrative poetry, which she calls “narrative that sings,” she publishes and edits the journal Naugatuck River Review. (more…)
