POETRY CRITICISM FEATURED ARTIST CONTRIBUTORS GUIDELINES ABOUT TIMELINE


Song of a Rolling Stone

When I was five-and-thirty,
     I thought that I was old,
My waist no longer sylph-like,
     My hair no longer gold.
'Twas useless to console me.
     Or offer me champagne,
For I was five-and-thirty,
     And death was on my brain.

When I was five-and-forty,
     My heart was full of fears.
When I was five-and-fifty,
     I would not count the years.
But there’ve been subtle changes
     In Nature’s paradigm—
Now I am five-and-sixty,
     And I’ve got lots of time.




A Visit on All Saints Day

Hello. I've brought your favorite flowers again.
How is it going under there, my dead?
On this side, we're no better off than when
you walked beside us. (Yes, I know I said
the same last year.) The human race is not
improvable. Ask any saint you meet.
We've gone to war again without a thought.
Our leaders shuffle bribes, our heroes cheat.
Your children haven't turned out awfully well,
but who expected it? You're not to blame,
and anyway I don't believe in hell.
Good-bye for now. I'm always glad I came.
I make no promises about next year,
but one way or another, I'll be here.

































AUTHOR BIO

Gail White has a new book, Easy Marks, due out in 2008 by Word Tech Press. Called "the American Wendy Cope," she is one of the top three winners of the first Anita Dorn Award, and Prospero's World will publish her book The Accidental Cynic. See Julie Kane's essay "Getting Serious About Gail White's Light Verse."

POETRY CONTRIBUTORS

Debra Bruce
Maryann Corbett
Barbara Crooker
Rachel Hadas
Kathryn Jacobs
Michele Leavitt
Charlotte Mandel
Annabelle Moseley
Traci O'Dea
Shanna Powlus Wheeler
Gail White
Marly Youmans
FEATURED ARTIST
Judith Taylor: No one seems to disagree with me when I say there's something compelling about these images. Maybe it's because we're so inundated by the media with narrative that is manipulated and inflated that these honest little private struggles to say something touch us at the core. The eye with which we see them now is not the eye of the young writer, and that distance is interesting, surprising. Maybe the connection between the adolescent girl and the adult woman, or the diary page and the studio wall, is closer than I think.
ARCHIVES
LINKS
POETRY
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Modern American Poetry
Measure
The Poem Tree
Poetry
Poetry Daily
Poetry Society of America
Poets House
Raintown Review
Slate
String Poet
Valparaiso Poetry Review
Verse Daily
Women's Poetry Listserv
The Yale Review

CONFERENCES
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Bread Loaf
Poetry by the Sea
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