Poet Matthew Zapruder say that we are too often asked to find the 'hidden meanings' in poems, as if a poem is a riddle. Source: Have we been taught poetry all wrong? Response: Zapruder's book sounds terribly dishonest from this article. In a short space he veers from romantic canard ("[poetry] can really open a …
Month: June 2017
Pseudo-poetics of witness
Just read this for the first time today in Karmic Traces. Weinberger is my favorite curmudgeon: Can I Get a Witness? by Eliot Weinberger: The first part of this article was published in the Village Voice Literary Supplement in July 1996, and was the first public declaration of the pseudonymity of Araki Yasusada. The postscript gives …
Poems published in Forum Magazine
Two of my poems, “Le Roi Est Mort” and “Terza Rima Beginning with Lines by Pope,” have been published in Forum Magazine, print only.
Poem published in The Ekphrastic Review
I am very pleased to have had my poem "La Maja Desnuda" published in The Ekphrastic Review. I have a great love for ekphrastic poems and write several every year, not only about paintings but statues, tapestries, illuminated manuscripts, etc. I like to push poetry into encounters with other art forms. So I am very …
To the Chorister
Removed for publication
Jedediah Smith 