Monthly Archives: October 2020

Steven Ratiner, Arlington’s Poet Laureate, is today’s guest blogger. Not the least of poetry’s strengths (and delights) is its ability to allow us access to another reality: to stand for a few moments in someone else’s shoes, viewing the day … Continue reading →

Steven Ratiner, Arlington’s Poet Laureate, is today’s guest blogger. Lloyd Schwartz navigates his roles as poet, scholar, and critic with such ease, an observer can easily believe a single impulse, a unified language informs them all.  His forthcoming Who’s on First? New and … Continue reading →

Steven Ratiner, Arlington’s Poet Laureate, is today’s guest blogger. “How deserted lies the city,/ once so full of people!/ How like a widow is she,/ who once was great among the nations!”  Teresa Cader’s poem, too, is a lamentation, a word that calls … Continue reading →

Steven Ratiner, Arlington’s Poet Laureate, is today’s guest blogger. The list poem is part of an ancient and honorable tradition.  A cataloging of images, names, or events, you find the technique used to great effect in the Bible and Homer; Walt Whitman often … Continue reading →