by inannaadmin | Apr 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
On Saturday, April 2, 2022 at 2 p.m. Eastern Time, Penn Kemp, Susan McCaslin, and host Richard-Yves Sitoski presented thirty Canadian poets in response to precarious events in the world for a special Oh!Sound online celebration of poetry. What better time...
by inannaadmin | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot I. The Burial of the Dead April is the cruellest month, breedinglilacs out of the dead land, mixingmemory and desire, stirringdull roots with spring rain....
by inannaadmin | Mar 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
I recall a few lines of a narrative poem by Nima Yushij, one of my favorite poets. The character of the story, a poor fisherman coming upon a mermaid one stormy night, says to himself: I must follow my own path/no one will take care of me/amidst the turmoil of...
by inannaadmin | Feb 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
The COVID-19 pandemic has largely forced authors to put tradition aside when it comes to promoting their books, and find creative and innovative ways to get the attention of readers. Bookstore customers sitting on folding chairs, clutching cups of punch while the...
by inannaadmin | Jan 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
49th Shelf Browses Books in Death Like the figure she describes in her ekphrastic poem “Clotho” as “Ensnared in long tentacles of hair, skeletal, toothless, chiseled in white marble…” Martonfi’s The Tempest has hewn her own spare...
