by Susan Gabriel | May 21, 2014 | Poetry and Poets
It drives me NUTS sometimes how underappreciated poetry is. Sure, some of it is unapproachable and just doesn’t speak to us. But if we sample enough of it, we begin to find our favorite poets. The ones who resonate with us. The ones who speak our metaphoric...
by Susan Gabriel | Jul 11, 2013 | Poetry and Poets
Once a week, on Mondays, a poem arrives in my inbox. This is because a few years ago I signed up to receive the email version of American Life in Poetry, a column that shows up in newspapers around the country. More often than not, they are wonderful poems. The...