In my last post, I talked about how a poem needs to have something more than the simply the personal at stake in it to make is work for the reader. Now, using a very early poem of mine, I’m going to take another approach to Shari’s excellent question, which goes as follows: How much…
July 26, 2017: Writer and Reader
This is the first of a new blog series I am devising with a fabulous student from my poetry classes at Politics & Prose. When Shari Lawrence Pfleeger first took my A Poem a Day class last year, I was thrilled to discover that in addition to writing very good poems, she asks the kind…
Sontag Essay
In Memory of Susan Sontag “One felt that he could generate ideas about anything. Put him in front of a cigar box and he would have one, two, many ideas ” a little essay. It was not a question of knowledge . . . but of alertness, a fastidious transcription of what could be thought…
Contact
Book Distribution and Ordering: Rose’sReprint Permissions & Bookings: [email protected] (301) 530–2896 (phone) To respond to any of the poetry or prose on this site, make a comment, or suggest a topic for the Letter from Rose page, write to [email protected] Below you’ll find links to some favorite sites: Travis Hall Studios – Travis’s painting, “Mystic…
Guenevere
Looking for Guenevere is a one–act play in three scenes that retells Arthurian legend from a woman’s perspective. The characters are two contemporary women who, over the course of an evening, embark on an imaginative search for the “real” Queen of Camelot. Beginning with reminiscences of their first encounters with Arthurian myth, they begin to…
Reviews
On the poetry collection, Orpheus in the Park: Current News (updated 1/28/08): A new review of Orpheus in the Park by poet Alex McRae has just appeared on Eyewear, a London–based review of literature, film, and music. McRae writes, “The poems in this collection . . . find ordinary human motivations within ancient myths, and…