Monthly Archives: April 2020

Steven Ratiner, Arlington’s Poet Laureate, is today’s guest blogger. To Seamus Heaney’s way of thinking, poetry was about providing that “extra voltage in the language, the intensity, the self-consciousness” that raises thought to another level.  Often, we experience that intensity through … Continue reading →

Steven Ratiner, Arlington’s Poet Laureate, is today’s guest blogger. Let’s admit it: some mornings, the walls of our own homes seem to be closing in and it’s hard to draw a deep breath. We feel the urge to take a … Continue reading →

Steven Ratiner, Arlington’s Poet Laureate, is today’s guest blogger. What I find most remarkable in Susan Donnelly’s poems is how rarely the situations she portrays seem so. She writes about the ordinary days every one of us inhabits; but somehow, … Continue reading →

Steven Ratiner, Arlington’s Poet Laureate, is today’s guest blogger. Back in the ’60’s, as a young poet learning his craft, I was drawn to visionaries with a flare for seeing beyond: Hart Crane whose “Stars scribble on our eyes…”; and … Continue reading →