Boy I have no idea how to name a baby with a penis. All names seem false. Maybe it is because I have never felt completely like a man, but more of a blend of sea and sandalwood. Certainly not pipe tobacco and sage-burned sweat through cologne. Plus, all the tides ruin the leather. Yet …
These Hands of Myrrh (Kelsay Books) by Scott Ferry is a highly inventive and uniquely spiritual collection of poems that have a gentle and wise humanity, populated by the living and by ghosts alike with sober urgency in assured, masterful brushstrokes. These poems confront the light and the dark of human existence and how that …
For this thirty-fifth post in the Poets on Craft series, we have Jonathan Yungkans and Scott Ferry. Poets on Craft is a cyberspace for contemporary poets to share their thoughts and ideas on the process of poetry and for students to discover new ways of approaching the writing of poetry. In the face of a pandemic …
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In Robbi Nester’s third full-length collection of poems, Narrow Bridge (Main Street Rag, 2019), she spins a world at once as delicate and weightless as a Chagall painting, but also as stark, skeletal, and precise as a black and white photograph of a Philadelphia street. What is as thrilling as her imagery and “the electrical …
Mr. Rogers kills fruit flies This is not the set with the trolley. This is not Brockett’s Bakery or Trow’s Workshop or Negri’s Music. These flies malinger in my kitchen squatting on my mangoes and my pears. I should have thrown out those bananas when they leathered, but I always believed that everything has a …
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