BY CLARINDA HARRIS
is that you can never see the one you’re wearing,that no one believes the lies they tell,
that they grow to be more famous than you,…
Woman in Peru, October 2015. (Photo courtesy of John Mark Jennings )
Category: Poetry
Poetry at the Post: A Trip to Lake Titicaca and the Floating Islands
Uros Islands, Lake Titicaca Peru, October 2015 Photo courtesy on John M. Jennings
On the Island
BY LAWRENCE RAAB
After a night of wind we are surprised
by the light, how it flutters up from the back of the sea
and leaves us at ease….
Poetry at the Post: Healthy And Happy And Heading For Peru!
Song of the Open Road
BY WALT WHITMAN
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Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.
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Poetry at the Post: Heading To Peru With Vallejo In Mi Bolsa….
Miguel
BY CÉSAR VALLEJO
TRANSLATED BY DON PATERSON
I’m sitting here on the old patio
beside your absence. It is a black well.
We’d be playing, now. . .
“Faryab- village dug well” by Didiervberghe – Own work. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons –
A beautiful poem… you can listen to the awesome Mercedes Sosa sing it in Spanish here:
Poetry at the Post: Glory Be To God For Powdered Blue Helmets Or Three Things An Ole Miss Mom Learned From The Rebels’ Win Over Alabama
Pied Beauty
BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
Glory be to God for dappled things –
…
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
- Those powder blue helmets rock! I vote for powder blue all the way for the rest of the season. I’m already updating my game day outfits to match.
- QB Chad Kelly got it done but it is WR Quincy Adeboyejo who is my fave right now—two catches for 71 yards and a TD! Plus he’s from Texas!
- Ole Miss is blessed.”God has been so good to us,” said Hugh Freeze in his post game interview. Amen. Even I felt a twinge of religion at 12:24 am CDT. Hell Yes!
Poetry at the Post: When A Neighbor Brings You Peonies, Think of Keats…
Ode on Melancholy
BY JOHN KEATS
But when the melancholy fit shall fall
Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud,
That fosters the droop-headed flowers all,
And hides the green hill in an April shroud;
Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose,
Or on the rainbow of the salt sand-wave,
Or on the wealth of globed peonies;
Poetry at the Post: A Woman Named Claire, Franciscan Women & Amiri Baraka
The New World
BY AMIRI BARAKA
The sun is folding, cars stall and rise
beyond the window. The workmen leave
the street to the bums and painters’ wives
pushing their babies home…
CALL FOR PAPERS
“Franciscan Women: Medieval & Beyond”
Women and the Franciscan Tradition Conference
The Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University
July 12-15, 2016
From July 12-15, 2016, the Franciscan Institute at Saint Bonaventure University will host a major conference dedicated to women and the Franciscan Tradition, ranging from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. The organizers seek to bring together women and men who are living the Franciscan tradition in various ways — as members or associates of the three Franciscan orders, coworkers in Franciscan institutions, etc. — with academic scholars who want to bring their research into a mutually enriching conversation with a broader audience.
Individual papers, panels, and workshop proposals are sought that engage academic, pastoral, and socio-political aspects of this topic.
Possible areas of focus include, but are not limited to the following:
Franciscan women and leadership
Female Franciscanism during the Middle Ages
Female Franciscanism and the Early Modern World
Franciscan women in the “New World”
Franciscan women and ministry
Scholarly trends and the study of religious women
Women and the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition through the ages
Franciscan Women and the Contemporary Church.
Proposals are due by November 20, 2015. Notifications of acceptance, rejection or need for alterations will be sent to authors by January 11, 2016. Send a paper proposal/ draft of your text no later than November 20, 2015, directly to:
Women & the Franciscan Tradition Conference
Franciscan Institute St. Bonaventure University
Murphy Building – Room 100
St. Bonaventure, NY 14778
Organizing Committee:
Lezlie Knox (Marquette University)
David Couturier OFM Cap. (St.Bonaventure University)
Timothy Johnson (Flagler College)
Diane V. Tomkinson OSF (Neumann University)
For more information, contact David Couturier OFM Cap at dcouturi@sbu.edu
Poetry at the Post: Reading Poetry in Alphabetical Order or “D” is for Matt Donovan
To a Student Who Refuses to Read More
of The Inferno After Learning None of It Is True*
by Matt Donovan
Pliny tells us Zeuxis rendered the grapes with such care
crows circled back all afternoon to peck at the work he’d done.
Interesting factoid: Pliny the Elder died on August 25, AD 79, while attempting to rescue Pomponianus (a friend of Pliny’s) and his family from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that had just destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. (Professor Wikipedia)
Not a believer in Dante’s Inferno? Then, how about Purgatorio? We’ll be reading Dante’s Purgatorio in the Global Reading Group next Lenten season. Pre-read salon is already up and active. Free and open to all readers, writers and those searching for redemption. Click here to join.
- From Vellum by Matt Donovan, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007.
Poetry at the Post: Reading Poetry in Alphabetical Order or “C” Is For Christian Campbell
AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE*
by Christian Campbell
I
I am the first of my family
to go to Buckingham Palace.
I had the flu, I nearly stayed home;…
*From Running the Dusk by Christian Campbell, Peepal Tree Press Ltd., 2010. Running the Dusk gives us a new voice for Caribbean arts and letters…(Yusef Komunyakaa)
Poetry at the Post: The Last Days of Summer and Peaches!
From Blossoms
BY LI-YOUNG LEE
From blossoms comes
this brown paper bag of peaches
Li-Young Lee’s poem is a luscious poem. It moves from the “bite into/ the round jubilance of peach” to joy and death then circles back to the beginning, or the blossoms of the peach. Check it out here.
Here’s another “peach” poem:
Peach Farm
BY DEAN YOUNG
I’m thinking it’s time to go back
to the peach farm or rather
the peach farm seems to be wanting me back
Actually, I could go on and on with “peach” poems and “peach” art. The peach seems to be inspirational. But, instead, I’ll end with this photo of a peach-bourbon (yep, some bourbon for a bit of a kick!) pie baked yesterday by Baker John at the Casa 300 Bakery & Literary Salon in Mano Prieto, a few miles north of Marfa, TX.
Alice-Catherine 