August Poems in Verse-Virtual
I had a professor, and a very good one, who once spoke about “the poetry of the ineffable.” That’s a word for what’s all around us but cannot be easily named or defined, if at all. Common as the air … Continue reading →
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Poetic Mysteries in Verse-Virtual.com
There are many mysteries among the poems that delighted me in July’s Verse-Virtual (http://www.verse-virtual.com/poems-and-articles.html). Michael Minassian’s poem “The Fortune Teller” reads like a deep parable with too many possible meanings for any of us to sort out simply. It features … Continue reading →
New Poems Blossom in Verse-Virtual.com
Among the many notable poems in July’s Verse-Virtual.com, the online poetry journal, John Allman’s urbane postmortem on a bizarre historical-poetic footnote, “On the Removal of Whitman’s Brain,” tapped me on the shoulder and commanded attention. According to Allman’s note on … Continue reading →
Poems blooming in Verse-Virtual
As the month advances I discover more poetic flowers blooming in the May’s Verse-Virtual.com, the online poetry journal: The poetry of great truths in J.C. Elkin’s moving and formally appealing poem “Keening for Eve” found in lines such as: “…if … Continue reading →
Garden Poems Flower in Verse-Virtual online journal
The theme for the May edition of Verse-Virtual was gardening (or gardens, or flowers), though the online poetry journal is always open to poems on any subject. I am a contributing editor for Verse-Virtual.com, an online poetry journal that publishes … Continue reading →