Cranberries& Rugs (#2sdayPoems)

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2sDay Poems, Jill Osier, Molly Peacock, poets reading, Should Our Undoing Come Down Upon Us White, The Second Blush, women poets

There is the slightest chill in the air today, and already I am thinking of cranberries, sweaters and fire-side rugs. Here are two colder-weather poems by Molly Peacock & Jill Osier with bonus audio files.

THE FLAW

by Molly Peacock

The best thing about a hand-made pattern
is the flaw.
Sooner or later in a hand-loomed rug,
among the squares and flattened triangles,
a little red nub might soar above a blue field,
or a purple cross might sneak in between
the neat ochre teeth of the border.
The flaw we live by, the wrong color floss,
now wreathes among the uniform strands…

FULL TEXT HERE (audio file at top-center of that page)

from The Second Blush (W.W.Norton,2008)

 

IO

by Jill Osier

Today I find lowbush cranberries edging the yard. Full ripe,
they lie secret as gems among broken twigs and leaves blown down.
I pick two generous handfuls. There may be more. You told me
the story of Jupiter once. How when Voyager passed by one of its moons,
it recorded something like ten volcanic eruptions. Scientists reasoned
that if at random they found ten, the place must be breaking all the time.
They looked closer, and they were right. It is later and I’m home and I stand….

 

FULL TEXT HERE
audio here
latest collection: Should Our Undoing Come Down Upon Us White

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 29)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, artspeak, Breda Wall Ryan, Diode, Elizabeth Marshall, Ellery Akers, Erin Belieu, Holocaust Poems, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, James Tate, Jo Harjo, list poems, Maggie Smith, Marcus Clayton, Mary Carroll Hackett, Mary Cassatt, Mary Cresswell, Molly Peacock, mslexia, Patty Paine, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, Poetry Daily, poetry humor, Poetry magazine, poetry prompts, Storialist, Tahoma Review, the language inside, Wild Violet, women poets

The best prompts, poems and news from DAY TWENTY-NINE of #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth. Can’t believe the month is almost over. Too early to feel the loss?

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Poems in Review format”
30dpc “Themes in Your Work Exploration prompt”
Mslexia’s “Descrip of the Abstract w/ 5 Senses prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Missed Opportunity prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “What Nobody Knows prompt”
Wild Violet’s “Z is for Zenith prompt”
The Language Inside’s “The Pain of Love prompt”
ARTSPEAK #29 “Mary Cassatt’s The Bath”
Imaginary Garden with Real Toads’ “Flowers Named After Animals/Birds Named After Flowers”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Breda Wall Ryan| “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife”
Maggie Smith| “Reading the Train Book, I Think of Lisa”
James Tate| “It Happens Like This”
Ellery Akers| “The Word That Is a Prayer”
Molly Peacock| “Commands of Love”
Elizabeth Marshall| “The Blues”
Jo Harjo| “Perhaps the World Ends Here”
Erin Belieu| “I Growed No Potatoes to Write About, Sir”
Mary Cresswell| “Three Ghazals for the Dervish”

Miscellaneous

PoetryDaily Fundraiser
On Poems That Take Inventory at The Storialist
Marcus Clayton blogs about Polaroids, nostalgia, and poetry at Tahoma Review
Holocaust Poems: Interview with Poet and Filmmaker Janet R. Kirchheimer (Part 1)
Meet the Press: Karen Schubert in Conversation with Patty Paine, Editor of Diode Editions
21 Times Tumblr Nailed Poetry Humor at Buzzfeed