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…)
Click Here to Read: Retired psychoanalyst finds his voice in poetry By Mike Gallagher in the Daily Record on February 1, 2011.
Local poet Stephen Maurer relaxes at his desk while writing in his Ellensburg home, Monday, Jan. 31, 2011.
CLick Here to Read: 2011 Poetry and Psychoanalysis at SFCP on the Hear Hear Website on January 17, 2011.
POETRY MONDAY: January 3, 2011
Martin Espada
Happy New Year to all our readers!
This feature should be of special interest, not only to poetry lovers but also to those of you who will be attending the annual meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association in New York City this month. If you consult the program, you will see that he is giving five different presentations, seminars and workshops as part of the educational component of the meeting.It’s a happy coincidence, because I had already planned to ask him to submit work to Poetry Monday. (more…)
Click Here to Read: Words a Cell Can’t Hold By Liu Xiaobo in the New York Times on December 8, 2010.
POETRY MONDAY: December 6, 2010
Krista Lukas
I’m pleased to introduce a poet whose work was unknown to me until a group of her poems showed up in our P.O. box. They’re well worth a look – and another.
Krista Lukas’ poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2006, Creative Writer’s Handbook, New Poets of the American West, and a number of literary magazines. She is has received a Nevada Arts Council
fellowship and the Robert Gorell Award for Literary Achievement from
the Sierra Arts Foundation. A manuscript of her poems was a finalist
for the 2009 May Swenson Award. Recently, her poem “Letter to My
Ancestors” was translated into Russian and published in Polutona
magazine. Krista lives with her husband in Nevada, where she serves
as an elementary school gifted and talented specialist. (more…)
