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July 2018

July 20, 2018

Poetry Friday: “The Egg of Anything”

In examining her simple subject, Bohince expands the scope of an egg. The poem’s title,...

July 13, 2018

Poetry Friday: “Some Small Bone”

One of a writer’s greatest challenges is to create a short piece that is in...

July 06, 2018

Poetry Friday: “Pray That the Creek Don’t Dry Up”

Here is a poem about making a poem. The first stanza, a single sentence, stretches...

April 2017

April 07, 2017

Poetry Friday: “The Last Supper”

This poem is a meditation on Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting, “The Last Supper.” But...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Exile with Fox” by Chelsea Wagenaar

This poem draws me in with its opening sounds: “Midnight, mid-May.” With those urgent, humming...

March 24, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Love’s Last” by Christian Wiman

The spring equinox was on Monday. I am slowly seeing a flush of new life...

January 2017

January 13, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Hail, Spirit” by Pattiann Rogers

Recently, I have been reading The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle with my 16-month...

January 02, 2017

Poem for the New Year: “In the Candleroom at Saint Bartholomew’s on New Year’s Eve” By Heather Sellers

This poem moves me and impresses me with its sense of almost-but-not-quite arriving at connection....

November 2016

November 25, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Poetry Is the Spirit of the Dead, Watching,” Part I, By Margaret Gibson

Where do our words come from? And our lives: how do they connect with those...

November 18, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Full Thunder Moon” by Julie L. Moore

The days following the election have been dark indeed. People unhappy with the outcome fear...

October 2016

October 28, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Poverty of Spirit” by Fleda Brown

“Blessed are the poor in spirit.” This beatitude has always puzzled me: what, I’ve wondered,...

October 21, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Hive Boxes” by Megan Snyder-Camp

The sounds in this poem! I love its compactness and humming—its slender shape on the...

October 17, 2016

Traveling Through These Days of Awe

I’m in a plane ascending to 37,000 feet. How restless have I been this year?...

October 07, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Intercession: For My Daughter” by Brett Foster

We pass into this world at birth. We pass out of it at death. And...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

Poetry Friday: “After” by Marjorie Stelmach

Grief is a state of being that almost defies articulation. When you’re in it, it...

September 23, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Visitation Rights” by Jeffrey Harrison

I sometimes talk to friends who have died. Especially to friends who acted as spiritual...

June 2016

June 24, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Daybreak, Winter” by Betsy Sholl

I have a complicated relationship with the sun, having grown up in southern California and...

December 2015

December 25, 2015

Snow on Snow

Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago....

November 2015

November 06, 2015

Poetry Friday: “Canticle of Want” by Marjorie Stelmach

Each Friday at Good Letters we feature a poem from the pages of Image, selected...