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…)
Click Here to Read: Summoned Home By Allan Nadler on the Jewish Ideas Daily website on November 18, 2010.
Click Here to Listen to: Reading of Jacob Glatstein’s Poem Good Night, World!, Read by the author in Yiddish on YouTube.
Click Here to Read: Translation of Jacob Glatstein’s Poem Good Night, World! into English by Richard Fein.
Jacob Glatstein.
POETRY MONDAY: November 1, 2010
Mihaela Moscaliuc
I can’t say enough good things about Mihaela Moscialuc and the rich, lyrical, (more…)
POETRY MONDAY – October 4, 2010
Elizabeth Socolow
Elizabeth Socolow has published two full-length volumes of poetry. Her first, a stunning debut, was Laughing at Gravity: Conversations with Isaac Newton, awarded the Barnard New Women Poets’ Prize in 1987. Her second book, Between Silence and Praise, was published (more…)
Click Here to View: Gwyneth Lewis on the Subconscious and Writing, Video on the Stanford Humanities Center
website on July 01, 2010.
Gwyneth Lewis
POETRY MONDAY: September 6, 2010
Elizabeth Haight
Every once in a while I come across a poet whose work is barely known at all but who shows the kind of promise that I think will bring her wider recognition eventually. The term we use is “emerging poet,” which sounds to me a bit like a chicken pecking its way out an egg, but really means someone who doesn’t yet have a book out or perhaps only one or two books, not enough to be called an “established poet.” (more…)
To our readers:
POETRY MONDAY will be on vacation during August and will return after Labor Day weekend. Meanwhile, we invite you to peruse our archives, re-read some of our featured poetry and the profiles of our poets and tell us what you enjoyed or appreciated most and anything else you want to tell us. We would like to hear from you in actual letters to the editor, not just comments. Some of your letters may appear in future columns. Please send them, by regular mail, to:
Irene Willis
Poetry Editor
International Psychoanalysis
P.O. Box 217
South Egremont, MA 01258
POETRY MONDAY: July 5, 2010
Jim Haba
I’m proud to be able to introduce someone that many of you will recognize in this photo. Jim Haba was the tireless person everywhere at once at the famous Dodge Poetry Festival — behind the microphone introducing world-famous poets to cheering crowds and organizing talks and workshops all over a sylvan campus every two years. There was much more, as you will read below, but what many of you may not know is that he is, and has been for many years, a fine poet himself. (more…)
Click here to Read: The Freudian Muse: Psychoanalysis and the Problem of Self-Revelation in Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” and “Medusa” by Laure De Nervaux on the reveus.org website on May 1, 2007.
Sylvia Plath
POETRY MONDAY: June 3, 2010
Laurel Blossom
(Photo by Steven Haas)
Our June poet, Laurel Blossom, has published widely, in such journals and anthologies as The Paris Review, Harper’s, and Billy Collins’ 180 More: Exraordinary Poems for Every Day. Since her first published collection, a chapbook, Any Minute (Greenhouse Review Press, 1979), she has published four books, the most recent of which are a book-length narrative poem, Degrees of Latitude (Four Way Books, 2007) and Wednesday: New and Selected Poems (Ridgeway Press, 2004). Her poetry has been nominated for both a Pushcart Prize and the Elliston Prize.
Blossom has also edited two anthologies: Splash! Great Writing about Swimming (Ecco Press, 1996) and Many Lights in Many Windows: Twenty Years of Great Fiction and Poetry from The Writers Community (Milkweed Editions, 1997). She also serves on the editorial board of Heliotrope: a Journal of Poetry. (more…)
POETRY MONDAY: May 3, 2010
Jay Rubin
I’m pleased this month to introduce Jay Rubin, whose poems have appeared widely in the past few years, in such publications as Blue Earth Review, Rosebud, Prague Review, Poetry South, and The Poetry of Relationships. He teaches writing at The College of Alameda in the San Francisco Bay area and lives in San Francisco with his wife and son. He is also the founder, editor and publisher of the all-poetry literary journal, Alehouse (www.alehousepress.com), an enterprise about which his comments in a recent interview might be of special interest to our readers. “Serving as an editor, after years of writing poetry, is like a long-term psychoanalysis patient becoming the psychiatrist. It’s a whole different game when you sit on the chair across from the couch. The whole world opens up, and it changes you – and your poetry.”
Click Here to Read: Helen Meyers: 1925 – 2010 on this website.
Sonnet for Helen Meyers
Childhood as stepping stone became the road ‘
all roads led to, ever-branching,
The future in the mason’s hands building a city
In the mind no wind could tear asunder,
A city where light feared darkness not,
And dark itself found light enough to claim (more…)
Click Here to Read: Smith College Professor Justin Cammy remembers Abraham Sutzkever, the most important Yiddish poet of the Holocaust By Anne-Gerard Flynn in The Republican on April 09, 2010.
Justin D. Cammy, assistant professor of Jewish Studies at Smith College in Northampton, poses with some of the works of the legendary Yiddish poet and Holocaust survivor Abraham Sutzkever, who died on Jan 20, at the age of 96 in Tel Aviv.
Click Here to Read: The Poem “To My Child” by Abraham Sutzkever was used in Anna Ornstein’s Plenary at the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Click Here to Read: Abraham Sutzkever: In Memoriam By Ruth R. Wisse The Jewish Ideas Dialy on January 22, 2010 on this website.
POETRY MONDAY : April 5, 2010
A Tribute to Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
Although homage to this great poet would seem fitting at any time, it seems especially fitting for this column to offer it during National Poetry Month. I’m delighted, for strongly personal reasons, to have this opportunity. I remember how I felt as a teenager, sitting in my high-school English classroom and opening a literature anthology to her poem, “Renascence,” the way it spread thrillingly across the page, lifting me up and out of it.
Other women have reported a similar experience with that poem, which catapulted Millay into fame when she was only nineteen years old. She became wildly popular, in a way that few poets are today, went on to publish many poetry collections, plays, and short-stories, and in 1923 was the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Dismissed by some critics because of the feminist tone of her work, by others because of what they considered her anti-modernism and sentimentality, and later for her political activism, Millay began to be re-assessed and now is firmly established as a member of the canon. In most anthologies of American poetry, her name is back in the index, with multiple pages listed. She is fully recognized now for her technical virtuosity and dazzling range and is regarded as one of the most important American poets. (more…)
Click Here to Read: The Shakespeare Whodunit: A scholar tackles doubters on who wrote the plays; Hollywood weighs by Alexandra Alter in the Wall Street Journal on April 2, 2010.
Click Here to Read: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? By James Shapiro, Reviewed by Boyd Tonkin on the Independent Boosk Website on March 26, 2010.
Click Here to Read: The Psychology of the Authorship Question by Richard Waugaman in the online Journal Brief Chronicles: An Interdisciplinary Journa.
Click Here to Read: The pseudonymous author of Shakespeare’s works by Richard Waugaman in the Princeton Alumni Weekly.
Click Here to Read: Chapter 1: Four Pivotal Sonnets: Sonnets 20, 62, 104, 129 from What Silent Love Hath Writ: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Shakepeare’s Sonnets by Martin S. Bergmann and Michael Bergmann.
Click Here to Read: Chapter 2 from What Silent Love Hath Writ by Martin S. Bergmann and Michael Bergmann
Click Here to View: Dr. Sigmund Freud Discovers the Sea Shell by Archibald MacLeish.
Archibald MacLeish
