A Song for You
Originally published in “Move” by The Arts Tribune (Fall 2019, volume 8, issue 1) “Agnes, come line up for class now, dear,” the woman who is not my teacher coos Read More …
Author: Jessie Taylor
An Argument Against Paraphrasing: “They Flee From Me” by Sir. Thomas Wyatt
If one were to briefly paraphrase Sir Thomas Wyatt’s poem, “They Flee from Me,” it may sound something like this: Those women, who once took risks to seek out my Read More …
MANY NIGHTS AGO
I wrote this poem while sitting with my dad in a gluten-free cafe. Now it’s published in Watch Your Head: an anthological response to the climate crisis. Name something more Read More …
Poem Explication: “The River in Spate” by Michael Donaghy
The River in Spate by Michael Donaghy (1954-2004) sweeps us both down its cold grey current. Grey now as your father was when I met you, I wake even now Read More …
Our Birth is but a Sleep and a Forgetting: Sublimity and Childhood in William Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations,” and Samuel Coleridge’s “Frost at Midnight”
In William Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” and Samuel T. Coleridge’s “Frost at Midnight,” the poets explore themes of childhood development while considering the sublime Read More …
Are They Liars, Too?
The women at my therapist’s office all wear lipstick. I know this because the glasses are always smeared with the remnants of the mouth that drank before, sipping in an attempt Read More …