The Most Read Poets at North of Oxford – 2024 as of National Poetry Month
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Two Poems by Stephen Page https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2024/01/09/two-poems-by-stephen-page/ . State of Treasures by Amy Barone https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2024/02/12/state-of-treasures-by-amy-barone/ Two Poems by Ben Goodman https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2024/03/06/two-poems-by-ben-goodman/ Everybody Knows by Bartholomew Barker https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2024/01/09/everybody-knows-by-bartholomew-barker/ Two Poems by Michael Todd Steffen https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2024/01/09/two-poems-by-michael-todd-steffen/ Two Poems by Michael T. Young https://northof ..read more
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Most Read Book Reviews at North of Oxford – 2024 as of National Poetry Month
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Necessary Deeds by Mark Wish https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2024/02/01/necessary-deeds-by-mark-wish/ Watershed by Rae Spencer https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2024/02/01/watershed-by-rae-spencer/ Given by Liza Katz Duncan https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2024/01/01/given-by-liza-katz-duncan/ See What I Mean? By Charles Rammelkamp https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2024/02/01/see-what-i-mean-by-charles-rammelkamp/ Powèt Nan Pò A (Poet of the Port) by Indran Amirthanayagam https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2024/03/01/powet-nan-po-a-poet-of-the-port-by-indran-amirthanayagam/ Trondh ..read more
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Two Poems by Nathaniel Cairney
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Truth tellers . And yet the hands are still not capable of telling the whole tale, healing like they do, hiding like they can. Had I not been there myself, I never would have known about dairy barns in winter, how frozen concrete edges can spill blood, how years of mornings spent milking turn smooth little fingers into something like sausages. You filled your life with salves, creams, lotions, oils. You put those hands through all kinds of hell – tractor engines, a drill press, a bandsaw that took a fingertip. You gave up the piano, never really started the guitar. Your mother wouldn’t even r ..read more
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Two Poems by Ben Goodman 
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Walk . In this scrubland, even the flowers’ thoughts are lighter. The bells pour like pitchers: the forms of ideas, with no ideas inside them. The blue face. The violet mind. A bramble catches, tears a mouth into my white shirt. To say nothing of the blood. To never be known from the dawn. The weeds that break through stone like real life through the imagination. The black phoebes that call like an alarm from the other world. For now, we’ve nothing but the sun for instruction. Forgive me, I lose focus so. I just want to be able to tell, and to tell you. Imagine patience longer than my own lif ..read more
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The Time I was a Linguist by John Dorroh
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The Time I was a Linguist . I was your teacher & you were more than soft bones. We struggled with throat sounds & making sense of chaotic patterns that took forever to diagnose. There were no pills or elixirs, just work that no one wanted to do. . You separated yourself from “rathers” and ate cake made of stone. The icing was like storm front gray with a constant threat of fear. Torrential rain, spot flooding, afraid to wade barefoot into silent streets. . You made words in your stomach, forced them up through the machinery in your esophagus. I modeled quivering/shivering as a hybrid ..read more
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Discernment by Frank Wilson
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Discernment . Amid the darkness place the sun, That veteran god, from deepest night Evoking brightest day. Make plain Imagination’s gestures are But acts of faith, and loss of faith An absence of imagination. Merely perceiving misperceives: We must invite what our eye bears — Sunflower, catbird, passing cloud — Into the tabernacle of the heart, There where the lamp of vision flares. . Frank Wilson is a retired Inquirer book editor. Visit his blog Books, Inq. — The Epilogue  Email him at PresterFrank@gmail.com ..read more
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Powèt Nan Pò A (Poet of the Port) by Indran Amirthanayagam
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By Greg Bem Here it is, a poem for the port, through the door, entry without passport, free exchange, In a free society, the great gift of a space in a newspaper for this voice denied often on the grand avenues where news spreads. (from “Poet of the Port,” page 1) Newly arrived from multilingual, Sri Lankan-American poet Indran Amirthanayagam, the bilingual collection Powèt Nan Pò A (or Poet of the Port) centers poems at once personal and idealistic. Written in both Haitian Creole and English, many of these poems feel connected to Haiti, but they also explore the poet’s wider values of connec ..read more
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The Red Queen Hypothesis and Other Poems by Ann E. Michael
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. By Charles Rammelkamp . The Red Queen Hypothesis, from which Ann E. Michael’s prize-winning collection takes its name, proposes that species must constantly adapt in order to survive, pitted against other, also-evolving species: a theoretical process that’s part of evolutionary biology. Like all of evolution – slow as chess! – it’s an unhurried, gradual, drawn-out development that’s only detected in the long-view. In the title poem, a villanelle, Michael writes that: . change occurs only at the bitterest of margins, low and mean; beneath that rapid-paced awareness where you move twice as fa ..read more
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Good Housekeeping by Bruce E. Whitacre
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By Lynette G. Esposito  Good Housekeeping by Bruce E. Whitacre published by Poets Wear Prada, Hoboken, New Jersey explores domestic bliss with an eye for detail and conversations about what is really important. He explores free verse and narrative voice in a variety of long and short poems in thirty- nine pages of poetry. Two of his Haikus, one on page six and one on page thirty-two, use the title to set the time while the poem stanzas set the place. On page six, he sets the time in the title 02/20/2022 and puts the narrator in the laundry room doing a needed common task. &nb ..read more
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The Pendulum Moves Off by Theodore Haddin
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By John Zheng . Theodore Haddin is a fine poet and professor emeritus living in Alabama. Although he has been in retirement for decades, this 91-year-old poet has kept poetry as his close company or an inseparable part of his life. To him, there is no time to lose in finding a way to express himself through poetry. The happy new year of 2024 brings to us Haddin’s new poetry book, The Pendulum Moves Off, published by Madville Publishing in January. This poetry book, the third by Haddin, shows that poetry is the most artistic way to maintain a joyful heartbeat and that poetry writing is a ..read more
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