I wrote this poem about 8 years ago when our daughter was still too young to walk and I wanted her to see the woods. That she slept through it all was fitting. Now she's often in the woods, under her own steam.
Maurice Manning on "Violets in the Fall" |
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Pakistani Poet Ahmad Farhad Abducted
"His captors made it clear that his political poetry, his activism and a recent post on social media calling for Pakistan’s powerful army chief to resign, were the reasons he had been picked up. 'They asked me many times, what’s my issue with the army chief and the military?' he said. 'The interrogator then pressed me harder, asking about my resistance poetry, particularly my two poems on the military and enforced disappearances.'"
via THE GUARDIAN |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Matthew Tuckner on Ecopoetry Now
"Donnelly’s work has always been in conversation with Keats, but it is here, through Chariot’s strictness of form, that Donnelly broaches on what Keats called the 'egotistical sublime,' the notion that there is a direct correlation between 'voice' and environment. Form molds and directs the thinking in these poems, “This Is the Assemblage” included. Yet form also becomes a stricture to push against in these poems, further articulating the question asked by Whitman that Donnelly enlists as the book’s epigraph: 'to be in any form, what is that?'" |
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