40 days of poetry: Day 20: To a Dancer by Katherine McDaniel
40 days of poetry: Day 20: To a Dancer by Katherine McDaniel. This is a poem that I wrote a few years ago. It seems all the more pertinent now …
40 days of poetry: Day 19: Ficus Carica Sonnet by Hoa Nguyen
Day 19: Ficus Carica Sonnet by Hoa Nguyen. This poem is about death and how our thoughts and words can choke us. Is it better to speak or be silent?
40 days of poetry: Day 18: Peas by Annie Schmidt
Day 18: Peas by Annie Schmidt, translated by J.H. and J.W. Prins. It’s funny how memory changes the nature of our experience. Our elders are very dear to us.
40 days of poetry: Day 17: Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
Our poem today is one of my favorite classics, Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold. It’s about bonding together in love to find strength in a world that, beautiful and exciting …
40 days of poetry: Day 16: Labyrinth by Kenyatta Rogers
Day 16 of 40 days of poetry: Labyrinth by Kenyatta Rogers. Home, social class and circumstance–how do we escape these mazes we know so well? In response to the Covid-19 …
40 days of poetry: Day 15: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
Day 15: Elizabeth Bishop‘s One Art is about losing things. In response to the Covid-19 outbreak around the globe, Synkroniciti will be posting a video of a poem every day …
40 days of poetry: Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
40 days of poetry, Day 14: the poem today is Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Ulysses. It’s about the challenge of aging and the desire to go out with adventurousness rather than …
40 days of poetry: Music Swims Back to Me: Anne Sexton
40 days of poetry: Day 13. Today I’m reading Music Swims Back to Me, by Anne Sexton, about her experience being institutionalized for mental illness. Simultaneously clear and murky, it …
40 days of poetry: Day 12: The Moon and the Yew Tree by Sylvia Plath
In response to the Covid-19 outbreak around the globe, Synkroniciti will be posting a video of a poem every day for forty days. If you would like to participate, please …
40 days of poetry: A Little Flower: Dmitriy Kokarev
In response to the Covid-19 outbreak around the globe, Synkroniciti will be posting a video of a poem every day for forty days. If you would like to participate, please …