by Cynthia Newberry Martin | May 8, 2010 | poetry |
In her first album in 7 years, Natalie Merchant brings 26 poems to life… “I pulled these obscure and eccentric poems off their flat, yellowed pages…” With her young daughter in mind and often on her lap, Merchant was inspired to show her that...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 15, 2010 | poetry |
In honor of National Poetry Month, I finished Mary Oliver’s Evidence, which I’ve been reading in bits and pieces since October. I enjoyed it, but I have to admit I’m not really a nature woman. Still, I loved the ending of “Swans”…...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 14, 2010 | poetry |
On October 28, 2002, a rainy night in Georgia, I drove from Columbus to Atlanta to hear the poet Lucille Clifton read at Georgia Tech. If I remember correctly, she opened by reciting the short poem, “Why Some People be Mad at Me Sometimes.” Lucille Clifton...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 24, 2009 | poetry |
In most books of poetry, I put a little check in the Table of Contents by the poems I really like. In Shaindel Beers’ first collection of poetry, A Brief History of Time, I liked so many poems that I switched to marking the poems I didn’t love with a tiny...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 10, 2009 | catching moments, poetry, shapes, the day |
This leaf, propped up like it is here on its stem and all by itself, was waiting for me when I opened the front door yesterday morning. Do you think it thought I wasn’t noticing? I moved it for a moment over by the pumpkin… Then I brought it inside where I...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 15, 2009 | craft of writing, poetry |
Poemcrazy: freeing your life with words by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge is a book I forgot I had on my shelf–a forgotten book. Every now and then, I will pull a book off the shelf that looks unfamiliar–an old book–and thumb through its pages to see...
