C.J. Sage’s “A Great Divide”
C.J. Sage’s “A Great Divide” is an appropriate poem to look at tonight in Boston, with Irene bearing down on …
August 2011
POTM: Gerard Manley Hopkins’ [34]
[34] As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rims in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked …
FL: Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur”
As a reader, “God’s Grandeur” staggers me with its ‘bringing into being,’ immediately: first, an unflinching declarative, then the flame, then …
Doreen Gildroy’s “Uncreated Light”
A poem like Gildroy’s—which, honestly, reads more like a eighth-grade love note on wide-ruled paper than proper verse—may have more to offer …
