The Poetic Drift

I grew up watching PBS and hearing something like this, "This program is brought to you by [list of companies and organizations like the...

Honestly, punctuation in poetry troubles me. Not to the extent I lose sleep over it. But I have  gotten into bed wondering if I’d over or...

Finding a balance between meaning and song in a poem, while still considering syntax and form, presents a poet with a challenge often...

Rhyme’s Rooms: The architecture of poetry, by Brad Leithauser, Knopf, 2022 The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song, by Ellen...

“It was like hearing earth’s final act before crashing into heaven. It was a declaration of love and anguish which spoke to an estranged...

I begin one of my poems called "Morsels" with, "In short," a single line, as would befit a poem about small things. The poem is about...

A review of Cindy Ellen Hill's Wild Earth My grade school education on the sonnet (from sonetto, or "little song") began and ended with...

Poetry does not require metaphor to exist, but metaphor is one of the ways that poetry can be a tool for healing, both for the poet, and...

Pearls of poetry reveal themselves through this impulse to say as much as possible in as few words as possible. And that in itself is...

What is good poetry? Even more importantly, what is bad poetry? Because if there is good there is most certainly bad. And while I did not...

Poetry can access places beyond words when all words fail. This is the great paradox of poetry: Poets arrange words in a particular way...

While I am in no way any sort of authority on haiku, this form has been on my mind lately, as something that greatly influenced my...

On the Origin of Barns Many of us walk a path of disconnection. What does it mean to walk disconnected? It means we have no real sense of...

Mary Oliver was not a great critical success , for reasons given from a sort of nationally institutionalized misogyny to her persistent...