Category Archives: Saturday Poetry Series

SATURDAY POETRY SERIES ON LEAVE

Posted on February 25, 2012 by

Editor’s Note: This, my beloved weekly poetry series, and I, your faithful editor, are currently on bereavement leave. We shall commune again through poetry on the other side.

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: JACK SPICER

Posted on July 3, 2010 by

SECOND LETTER TO FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA by Jack Spicer Dear Lorca, When I translate one of your poems and I come across words I do not understand, I always guess at their meanings. I am inevitably right. A really perfect … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: MARGARET ATWOOD

Posted on June 19, 2010 by

IN LOVE WITH RAYMOND CHANDLER by Margaret Atwood An affair with Raymond Chandler, what a joy! Not because of the mangled bodies and the marinated cops and hints of eccentric sex, but because of his interest in furniture. He knew … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: RABINDRANATH TAGOR

Posted on June 12, 2010 by

UNTITLED by Rabindranath Tagore The foolish run. The clever wait. And the wise go into the garden. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was an Indian Bengali polymath. He was a popular poet, novelist, musician, and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: OCTAVIO PAZ

Posted on June 5, 2010 by

BETWEEN GOING AND STAYING by Octavio Paz Between going and staying the day wavers, in love with its own transparency. The circular afternoon is now a bay where the world in stillness rocks. All is visible and all elusive, all … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA

Posted on May 29, 2010 by

THEY ONLY CAME TO SEE THE ZOO by Jimmy Santiago Baca Our muscles warped and scarr’d Wrap around our skeletons Like hot winds That sweep the desert floor In search of shade, Sleeping each night In the hollow of petrified … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: MARTIN ESPADA

Posted on May 22, 2010 by

IMAGINE THE ANGELS OF BREAD by Martin Espada This is the year that squatters evict landlords, gazing like admirals from the rail of the roofdeck or levitating hands in praise of steam in the shower; this is the year that … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: ANI DIFRANCO

Posted on May 15, 2010 by

FUEL by Ani Difranco They were digging a new foundation in Manhattan And they discovered a slave cemetery there May their souls rest easy Now that lynching is frowned upon And we’ve moved on to the electric chair And I … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: MAC OLIVER

Posted on May 8, 2010 by

A pen-and-ink drawing of Wallace Stevens by Mac Oliver. ANOTHER DEATH TO BRAVE by Mac Oliver And soon enough, foreseeably, you’ve lost Another one you love, another death To brave, more ashes thrust into your face, More thoughts about the … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: LEONARD COHEN

Posted on May 1, 2010 by

DANCE ME TO THE END OF LOVE by Leonard Cohen Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic ’til I’m gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove … Continue reading →

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