Mary O’Malley’s “Holy”
Thoughts on what is holy.
Ordinary Plots: Meditations on Poems + Verse
Posting the occasional poem and the occasional meditation on that poem. Or, in other words: weekly essays on poetry and more.
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Michael Bazzett's "The Man Kept Reaching"
Thoughts on the surreal.
Ron Padgett's "In Fact"
Thoughts on gendered criticism, crude attention, and more.
Phillip B. Williams' "Paradise"
Thoughts on repetiton.
Maya C. Popa's "Had We But World Enough"
Thoughts on the beauty of risk.
Charlie Smith's "The Rose"
Thoughts on helplessness.
Claudia Emerson's "Metaphor"
Thoughts on one cure for loneliness.
Rachel Zucker's "Hours Days Years Unmoor Their Orbits"
Thoughts on six years of writing about poems.
Michael Ondaatje's "Driving with Dominic in the Southern Province We See Hints of the Circus"
Thoughts on being in the grip of one another.
Norman Dubie's "A Grandfather's Last Letter"
Thoughts on sweetness.
Ross Gay's "Overheard"
Thoughts on the intimacy of a city.