Este no es poema de resurrección.
El cuerpo segrega sus jugos y luego desaparece.
Éste es un poema de insurrección
contra el yo.
Henri Cole (1956)

The hand erasing writes the real thing. Henri Cole

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“Nothing gives me as much pleasure, when I’m doing it well, as writing.” —Henri Cole buff.ly/2tpAF8q

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“My experience is mostly that the will can make prose and it can’t make poetry. But it takes will, sometimes, to put yourself in the place where poetry might happen.” —Robert Hass
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amazing rainbow rising out of Ober Rd., Princeton & arching into the sky.
(photo: Kate Hughes)

Congrats to Kyoko Mori on the publication of her memoir 'Cat and Bird,' a meditation around Dorian, Oscar, Ernest, Algernon, Miles, and Jackson, her beloved companion cats.

On Seamus Heaney’s birthday, my favorite of his poems.

Now that I can finally stop worrying about the game, it’s time to stay up all night reading Henri Cole’s brilliance!

Spring flowers are an antidote to frenemies.

Bees by Henri Cole

'I’m actually very hopeful. I know most of the people who read my poems think I’m not. I mean, I have a very tragic vision of human life, but I’m very optimistic in the short term.'

Louise Glück on drafting the poem, 'Song' vulture.com/article/how-to…

Henri Cole (Henri Cole), author of GRAVITY AND CENTER, reads “The Kimono” By James Merrill, for #NationalPoetryMonth . tiktok.com/@fsgbooks/vide…

Henri Cole GRAVITY AND CENTER by Henri Cole collects almost thirty years of deeply original work by one of America’s greatest living poets, out now in bookstores in paperback. us.macmillan.com/books/97803746…

This is a swarm of bees on the front lawn. Their queen is dying or dead. Soon a new queen, after mating several times, will lay eggs and establish a new colony. Very amazing.

Thank goodness for dinners out w/ a friend.

Celebrate #NationalPoetryMonth by reading the 17 exceptional poets who have won the Jackson Poetry Prize—including Henri Cole, winner of the 2012 #JacksonPrize .

I confess I want one of these.