The Drift Record

A friend back in Vermont, poet Sierra Nelson, reminded us today over at The Kenyon Review's blog of how beautiful Robert Frost's N...

Autumn Grasses in Moonlight ( Shibata Zeshin , late Edo period) Today was my dad's birthday - he would have been 85 if he had lived past...

[Though I posted this on Thursday, I'm going to keep it up for Poetry Friday - people can take a look at the poets included. Poetry Frid...

Tricia over at The Miss Rumphius Effect is challenging us all to come up with a poem that uses prefixes - here's mine, with a slightly...

I admire brevity in poems, probably because I tend to be long-winded and need editing. I did once write a 14-line sonnet where each line had...