Poetry

 

 

Poses: An Essay Drawn from the Model is the work of Genine Lentine, and features 12 images from the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, of Diebenkorn’s live model drawings. Learn More…

 

 

 

 

“Morning Opera is a book of desires lost, desires found, equal parts ode and elegy. There is a lightness of touch here reflected in the short lines which ring like pings on crystal, but beneath the lightness, a darkness presides. At the heart of the mystery there is a music which Bart Schneider has found a way to make a home for in these poems.” —Jim Moore Learn More…

 

Kenneth Patchen: A Centennial Selection is a rich collection of poems and full-color art by the legendary poet, pacifist, populist, and pioneer of handmade books. Visit our Patchen Cove for poems, art, photos and tributes to Patchen as we celebrate his 100th birthday. Learn More…

 

 

 

In his new volume of poems, Mike Tuggle writes about summer and winter, the sun and the rain, owl, deer, dogs, wood rats, and racoons. He sees the human connections to both the animal and the plant worlds and at times sees the world through the eyes of a fox or a crow. Learn More

Night Sky Journey by Terry Ehret

Night Sky Journey begins with an invocation to the voices of creation, lodged inside ancient carved stones, and ends with a sequence of sonnets inspired by Colorado’s San Juan Mountains. Framed by these landscapes, the poems move through many worlds: real, remembered, and imagined. In the garden, the dead step easily into the autumn air, a brass doorknob in Paris opens to a parallel world, the letters of the alphabet turn back into cryptic images, and the Time Lady goes on “shaving the edge off eternity in ten second increments.” Learn More…