Thanks to Denise at the New Pages blog for bringing up the question of anthology merit . Although I couldn't find the responses, she did...

Praying from Mary Oliver, Spiritus 6 (2006). It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small sto...

Every love has its landscape. This place... haunts you in its absence . Rebecca Solnit: A Field Guide to Getting Lost . I came across this i...

Healy, Eloise Klein. The Islands Project . First. Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, 2007. What are these islands in the vastness of open ocean and...

Oliver, Mary. Why I Wake Early . Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. I have yet to tire of Mary Oliver. In book after book, her words flow by like l...

Oliver, Mary. Blue Pastures . First. San Diego: A Harvest Original, Harcourt, Inc., 1995. Just as I’d thought that I’d imbibed the sweetness...

Dorianne Laux. Facts About the Moon. First Edition. NY, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006. The title poem appears midway in Laux'...

Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging Too much has been made of origins. All origins are arbitrary. |||| I try to...