POETRY MONDAY: February 4, 2019

Kate Sontag

Good morning, everyone – and I hope those of you in areas where it’s frigid are able to stay indoors where you can be safe and warm (or hygge, as we’ve learned to say now).  I’m always impressed, as you must be, by people who manage to get to work on days like these, still cheerful and smiling, even though they may be worried about how their children are doing when schools are closed.

I met our poet for today, Kate Sontag, only recently, although I’ve had a book of hers  on a table close by for many years.  Some of you may already know of it: After Confession: Poetry as Autobiograpy, Edited by Kate Sontag and David Graham (Graywolf, 2001).  It’s a collection of essays from a number  of the best-known poets of our day, some of whom, like Colette Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: February 4, 2019

POETRY MONDAY: January 7, 2019

 

Patty Crane 

A happy, healthy and hopeful New Year, everyone.  We have a delightful poetry surprise for you this morning.  Although we have featured poets who are also translators, I know that we haven’t yet had poems in Swedish.  Since this is an international website, I also know that those of you who are Swedish speakers yourselves must of course be familiar with the work of Nobel prize-winning poet, Tomas Tranströmer. His volume of selected Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: January 7, 2019