I’ve spent a lot of hours lately rocking the little dude in the middle of the night. It’s a peaceful, quiet time and since I’m on summer vacation, it’s not like I have to get up and be anywhere for a few weeks, so I rather like sitting in the semi-dark with the baby asleep on my shoulder while I read poems on my iphone. I like to just sit and look at him but at night, I need to make sure I don’t fall asleep while I’m holding him so I read. The computer and books are too cumbersome for one-handed reading, but the old phone has really come into its own. Anyway, here are ten poems I’ve read and liked lately. I hope you’ll follow the links and check them out.
“Summer Nocturne ii: Hudson River Fireworks” by Joseph Harker. What a wonder it is to walk around New York City, the main thing I ever want to do when I’m there.
“Curating the Dead” by Dave Bonta. One I really liked from Dave’s series of Highgate Cemetery poems.
“Like Green Eggs, Summer” by Briarcat. Summer heat has its moments.
“Feels Like 108 Degrees” by Jessica Fox-Wilson. Meditation on heat, surrendering to it just a little.
“Broken” by Angie Werren… “fingers clumsy with a memory”
“Blank Stare Escape” by Mark Stratton. What happens when you call yourself a poet?
“A Stone in a River, 11” by Deb Scott. The hard necessity of fire.
“A Theology of an Autistic Body” by Nicole Nicholson. Another stellar entry in qarrtsiluni‘s ongoing imprisonment issue.
“There Are Howling Wolves” by NS from her latest collection Dark and Like a Web.
July 2011: A River of Stones. Not a poem, but a repository for all the micro-poems people are writing for the July River of Stones.
I’ve been trying to find a way to share links to blogging poets whose poems I’ve found and liked online, but I’ve struggled to find a way to do it consistently, so I’ll try this. I don’t know if I’ll do it when I find ten poems or if I’ll try posting links like this weekly whether or not there are ten. I guess we shall see.
James Brush is a teacher and writer who lives in Austin, TX. He tries to get outside as much as possible.
James, Thank You. The other poets you list are all stellar and to be included is terrific. Thank you again.
Enjoy that little guy. They grow so fast.
Thanks for the inclusion and the other links, James. I like picturing qarrtsiluni and Via Negativa readers with an infant on the lap!
Thanks for the shout-out! A wise way to spend those long nights, I think… there never seems to be time enough to stay on top of all the blogosphere at once.
Thank goodness for my phone or I don’t know how I’d read much of anything right now, though I’m pretty sure I couldn’t read a whole book this way. Poems are perfect for this kind of reading.