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Click Here to Read: San Francisco Center for  Psychoanalysis Announces the Final Event of Our 2008 Season: Al Young: Poetry and Psychoanalysis

Poetry Monday: Jeff Friedman

Jeff Friedman 

POETRY MONDAY
July 7, 2008

If you don’t already know the poetry of Jeff Friedman, you will find his work a delightful discovery.  He is the author of four collections of poems, the most recent of which, Black Threads, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2007.  His poems and translations have appeared in many literary journals and magazines, including American Poetry Review, Ontario Review and The New Republic.  A contributing editor to Natural Bridge, he is a core faculty member in the M..F.A program in Poetry Writing at New England College. Read the rest of this entry »

  
Click Here To Read: W.H. Auden’s Poem: In Memory of Sigmund Freud

Auden wrote this poem shortly after Freud’s death in 1939. Freud for Auden was an anti-hero “He wasn’t clever at all: he merely told the unhappy Present to recite the Past.” 
 

POETRY MONDAY: June 2, 2008
 

Michael Waters
 
It’s my pleasure this month to introduce the distinguished poet Michael Waters, whose publications include eight collections of poetry and numerous anthologies and critical works.  Among his awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Maryland Arts Council, three Pushcart Prizes, and residencies in Ireland, Switzerland and on Malta.  His readings, workshops and visiting professorships have taken him throughout the U.S. and abroad, including Prague, Baghdad, Iasi (Romania) and Toulouse.  A longtime professor of English at Salisbury University in Maryland, Michael Waters will be assuming a similar position at Monmouth University in New Jersey in September 2008.

Here, then, are three poems from Michael Waters’ book Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions) that he is pleased to share with us.
 
                                                                             Irene Willis
                                                                             Poetry Editor
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 Maxine Kumin
 
POETRY MONDAY: MAY 5, 2008
 
Long before there was a Poet Laureate of the United States, there was a Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.  Maxine Kumin, one of our most beloved American poets, had that honor.  She has also been Poet Laureate of  New Hampshire,  a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, winner of a Pulitzer Prize as well as many other prestigious fellowships and awards.  One or more of her many books (sixteen poetry collections, a stirring memoir, four novels, a short-story collection, four books of essays and more than twenty children’s books) surely must be on some of your shelves already.
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Click here to Read: “Poems Making  Poems: A Program of Poetry and Psychoanalysis,” an article on reprinted from The American Psychoanalyst on the blog: Hear, Hear, Occasional Posts on Poetry and Psychoanalysis

As promised, we are beginning National Poetry Month with the first of our Monday poetry pages. Today it’s our honor and privilege to offer three poems by world-renowned poet and critic Alicia Ostriker. Twice nominated for the National Book Award and winner of many other prestigious awards, Ostriker is the author of eleven volumes of poetry, the latest of which is No Heaven. Her critical works include, most

Alicia Ostriker 

notably, Writing Like a Woman and Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America. She has also written a number of books on the Bible, most recent of which is For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open Book.

Alicia Ostriker’s gracious response to our invitation brings us the first publication of a new poem, “To Persephone,” as well as two previously published ones she has personally selected for the interest of our readers.

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