I had two literary goals for 2021: Write fifty poems, and, Review ten books, which I listed in the post I achieved the first goal easily. I took an eight-week class where we were expected to produce two poems a week, then I participated in Poetry Postcard Month (August), during which I wrote a poem…
Author: Margaret Coombs
Poetry, curiosity, place.
A Personal Concordance
Yesterday’s post was overstated at the end. Yet I found no reason to suppress it. where oh where is the concordance that will allow those of us living through this poetry to find the words we seek in them and thereby gain back our souls? It was simply a leap, a poetic leap, and why…
About Resurrection
Somewhere in the Seuss poems I read today I found the word resurrection and learned that Seuss rejected it as a term to apply to her own life, but when I reread the section later so that I could reference her usage here, it escaped me. Fled from my eagle-eyed pursuit. I had worried that…
A Few Words About frank: sonnets by diane seuss
When I attended a Zoom reading given by Diane Seuss there was a woman visible on my screen in the audience who went into ecstatic raptures throughout each poem. She clutched her heart, bowed her head, threw it back to expose her neck, made prayer hands, touched her mouth with them. I can’t forget that. …
Aurora Levins Morales: Where Greed Has No Power
Aurora Levins Morales is a writer and visionary whose work I want to know better. In the quotation below she identifies the problem facing humanity and, consequently, all life forms on our planet as well as the solution. I’m glad to see that her books are still in print. My job is to change the…