Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Poetic Theaters, Romantic Fevers [one can always check NYT for poetry-related articles here] —
2. — Sonnets served with a slice of pi —
3. — Revisiting North Carolina’s finest poet —
4. — “This is a clip from the new Bob Dylan movie. It stars Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan and David Cross as Allen Ginsberg.” —
5. — Palestinian Poet Blasts Infighting —
6. — He felt that doing the work was a rehearsal for the work itself, and each rehearsal then became its own work [Thanks to Helen Frost for the link] —
7. — Poetry of the beach —

This is from Crossing the Water. (I disagree & like it better than Ariel and I like how the metaphors act like small bombs of surprise as you read the poems.) And I wish she’d've written more poems like this because whoo:

Maudlin

Mud-mattressed under the sign of the hag
In a clench of blood, the sleep-talking virgin
Gibbets with her curse the moon’s man
Faggot-bearing Jack in his crackless egg:

Hatched with a claret hogshead to swig
He kings it, navel-knit to no groan,
But at the price of a pin-stitched skin
Fish-tailed girls purchase each white leg.