About this blog
One of America's most revered poets, Adrienne Rich, said, "The moment of change is the only poem." Because the world is always changing, poetry is everywhere, and everything can be versified.Here, I'll discuss and review contemporary books of poetry, with a focus on regional writers, publications, and organizations. I'll promote area writers by offering prompts and contests, because I want to foster a spirit of community centered around poets and readers of poetry. This is a place to demystify the art of poetry, to appreciate its economy of language, its precision of image and sound.
Please share suggestions for blog content by emailing me at sfleegal@ydr.com. I'd love to hear from you! Let's versify PA and support those who are doing the same.
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Tag Archives: Rattle
The natural world of York native Steve Ausherman’s ‘Creek Bed Blue,’ a chapbook of poems
“Pull me down into the stout mud of buried crayfish and broken clay pots” (p. 20), into the world recreated in the poetry of Steve Ausherman. And hurry, because this place is disappearing. The aim of Ausherman’s chapbook, “Creek Bed … Continue reading
Posted in Interview, Review
Tagged chapbook, couplet, Creek Bed Blue, elegy, Encircle Publications, environmental poetry, Gary Snyder, green poetry, heritage, inspirational poetry, litany, meditative poetry, Natalie Goldberg, nature poetry, prose poems, Rattle, Richard Russo, rural way of life, sense of place, Steve Ausherman, Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge, The Aurorean, The Sun magazine, Wendell Berry, York County
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Poem by Julia Hvalacik, Teen Takeover blogger-poet, and some sonnet love
It should be immediately noted that I am a huge fan of the sonnet. Big-time. Traditional or experimental, I have nothing but love for the form that my favorite poet and former teacher Molly Peacock says has “a primitive appeal … Continue reading
