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Poetry Monday: January 2nd, 2012: Susan Shaw Sailer

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

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…)

POETRY MONDAY: December 5, 2011

Monday, December 5th, 2011

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…)

Poetry Monday November 7. 2011: Irina Mashinski

Monday, November 7th, 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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…)

Swedish Poet Wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Friday, October 7th, 2011

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

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

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…)

POETRY MONDAY: July 4, 2011

Monday, July 4th, 2011

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

Saving Psychoanalysts: Ernest Jones and the Isakowers by Douglas Kirsner

Sunday, June 26th, 2011

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



June Poetry Monday: Arlene Kramer Richards

Monday, June 6th, 2011

 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 by Eugene Mahon

Thursday, May 5th, 2011

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

Saturday, April 30th, 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: Gigi Marks

Saturday, April 30th, 2011

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…)

British Library Acquires The Archive Of Wendy Cope

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

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

Monday, April 4th, 2011

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…)

March Poetry Monday: David Giannini

Monday, March 7th, 2011

 

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…)

POETRY MONDAY: February 7, 2011

Monday, February 7th, 2011

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…)

Retired psychoanalyst finds his voice in poetry

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

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.

2011 Poetry and Psychoanalysis at SFCP

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

CLick Here to Read:  2011 Poetry and Psychoanalysis at SFCP on the Hear Hear Website on January 17, 2011.

Poetry Monday January: Martin Espada

Monday, January 3rd, 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…)

Words a Cell Can’t Hold

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

Click Here to Read: Words a Cell Can’t Hold By Liu Xiaobo in the New York Times on December 8, 2010.

December Poetry Monday: Krista Lukas

Monday, December 6th, 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…)