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Poetry Book Review: You Can Call It Beautiful
by Debra Elisa, MoonPath Press, 2023, 107 pp. If you would like to listen to this review, please click below. I have done my best to pronounce Bolivian, Filipino, and Indian names. Poetry Book Review: You Can Call It Beautiful by Debra Elisa, MoonPath Press, 2023, 107 pp. Reviewed by Sher Schwartz Journeys Through Motion … Continue reading
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“When Vision Narrows to a Single Beam of Light” by Eleanor Wilner
The only online source I could find to show you this poem. A podcast (and it’s a wonderful array of poetry and commentary) called The Slowdown https://www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2019/05/15/123-when-vision-narrows-to-a-single-beam-of-light Afterward for “When Vision Narrows to a Single Beam of Light” by Sher Schwartz Please share your thoughts on this poem. Continue reading
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“Gertrude” aka “When I hear Marian Anderson Sing” by Gwendolyn Brooks (Guest Voice Theresa LaPera)
Public Art on the wall in a neighborhood in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Photo courtesy Theresa LaPera, March 2023. Click the link below to read this poem, and to learn more about Gwendolyn Brooks and the grouping of poems she wrote named after children depicting the spirit of Brook’s Chicago neighborhood. .https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/01/05/gwendolyn-brooks-bronzeville-boys-and-girls/ A short video clip… Continue reading
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