October 18, 2019
Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry – October
In the beginning was the Word, I read again, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Whatever your theology, that’s a sublime lede. We call this […]
June 19, 2016
We Encounter Each Other So Rarely
My ankles brush the sage and scrub, and I can no longer recall my mother’s hands, and soon my name too, is lost among the humming- birds, among the blur […]
October 30, 2015
“Let there be”: Abdul Ali’s “Holy”
Abdul Ali’s poem “Holy” from his 2015 debut collection Trouble Sleeping has me thinking about poems and prayers, poems as prayers. “Always, they begin / as units of prayer,” Ali’s poem starts. “They,” in […]