Sarah Cortez is known as “the cop poet.” One of her favorite photos of herself features a mischievously smiling Cortez showing off her gun in
Nativity Forget your Christmas cards and little creche the cutesy donkey, sheep and shepherd boys. Put away the twinkle lights and all that trash; the
Simeon Speaks One foot slipped out when I reached and lay him over the water for purification. When I reached and lay his little
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth of a fourteen poem song cycle “The Way of the Cross,” by noted poet Herman Sutter. Station V: Jesus
The poets depict the Muse as a mistress, not a wife. Plato’s Muse possessed the poets, enslaved and crazed them. Though Dante and Milton attempted
Editors’ Note: Dana Gioia has just published a new book: The Best American Poetry 2018. The interview below is the first of a series of interviews with
Sing sanguine seraphim, make holy our sorrows, singe them sweet. Cleanse the red remainders of a day gone wrong, splattered like a Jackson Pollack
Who has not felt the razor terror at the loss of any child, and this boy was the One; there was no room for error.
He lived in a cottage in a quiet part of town. He was the Robert Frost of our time. The world is scarcely yet “woke”
Editors Note: Timothy Murphy, one of America’s finest lyric poets and a Catholic convert, died on June 30, 2018 in his home in Fargo, North
