It should. Put countless shoulders to the wall…it cracks.
Reading Poems
I pulled out Above the River: The Complete Poems by James Wright. When I bought it last year, the poems resisted me, except for “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota” and “A Blessing.” After listening to the Poetry Off the Shelf podcast (April 2013), in which Idra Novey discusses…
June Books
“We are at war and do not speak of it.” Robyn Eversole “And you have been with methrough the long and hateful night although you are only a shadow” from “To My Reader”
Irene McKinney: Working Bibliography
Finding critical sources about McKinney isn’t as easy as I thought, though I expect to find more after I tackle the thesis below. And I have no access to the resources of an academic library. Maybe McKinney was on the right track when she confided to Maggie Anderson that she felt underappreciated on the national…
A Morning with Irene McKinney
Today I attended a workshop dedicated to Irene McKinney’s poetry, most specifically, Six O’clock Mine Report. During the pandemic, I have attended many helpful and fun webinars with great prompts for generating new poems. After receiving another invitation to register for another workshop, I began to wonder what it would be like to develop my…