Erica's Blog

From George Oppen's "On Being Numerous"

"...baseball's their game
because baseball is not a game
but an argument and difference of opinion
makes the horses race."

Opening Day at Yankee stadium postponed until tomorrow, the first day of National Poetry Month.

War Made Easy

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In Seach of Matthias & Paul

A new prose poem by Robert Gibbons is now published at Guernica, HERE.

Teaser: I said to Connors that the miracle for me was that that wood once had bark surrounding it, & that look, now, those carved figures are the spirit of Man.

Factory of Tears

Factory of Tears by Valzhyna Mort (translated by Franz Wright and Elizabeth Wright) is the first Belarusian-English translation to be published in the U.S. Read my review for ForeWord, HERE.

Sidney Wade's Stroke

My review of Sidney Wade's latest collection of poems (Stroke from Persea Books) for ForeWord Magazine is available HERE.

Reginald Shepherd Poems

New Reginald Shepherd poems at Guernica, HERE.

Teaser (from "Experiment V"):

Here is an end to every dream, a room
the climbing ivy builds where green
waxes and wanes and stains
the skin. (I thought that I might
die, but not this time.)