Madge McKeithen

Abundance

May 16, 2013

Leighton B. McKeithen, Jr.

      March 12, 1925 – May 8, 2013 read more

Tags: Cameron, father, Fayetteville, Leighton McKeithen, North Carolina, poetry, Presbyterian, tribute, William Stafford, WWII

Southern Literary Festival

March 5, 2013

Each season brings a new pace. Spring carries particular anticipation — if only a momentary perspective, read more

Tags: Columbus State University, Dan Albergotti, Georgia, Kevin Wilson, moment, Natasha Trethewey, poetry, Points South, Southern Literary Festival, Spring, Stephen Dobyns, Tim O'Brien, vernal equinox

There I was told:

August 23, 2012

In a bookstore on Broadway, behind towering stacks that bring to mind bookstores past (and some present) and in front of a large clear window, read more

Tags: Carol Peters, Catallus, Cecil Day Lewis, Dylan Thomas, e. e. cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Harryette Mullen, James Wright, John Ashbery, John Donne, Laura Riding, Lisa Robertson, Marianne Moore, Maureen McLane, poetry, Wallace Stevens, William Wordsworth

A Garden of Inspiration

May 25, 2012

“While Socrates is pronouncing his subtle and solemn words, our eyes remain fastened on Athikte, while she read more

Tags: Andrew Seguin, Baudelaire, French Symbolists, Mallarme, Memorial Day, Monet, New York, New York Botanical Gardens, Paul Valery, poetry, Poetry Society of America, Rimbaud, summertime, Verlaine, Wallace Stevens

An Island in the City

May 14, 2012

Though it meant plenty of city driving to reach it, City Island fulfilled read more

Tags: Best American Poetry blog, boats, Bronx, City Island, Frost Lecture, Lucille Clifton, Marilyn Nelson, May, Mother's Day, New York, Orchard Beach, poetry, Poetry Society of America, Sunday, Wanda Coleman

On going

May 1, 2012

A highlight of  blogging for Best American Poetry last week (see “This Be the Poet”) on the Poetry Society of America’s Larkin event at Cooper Union was the quick  read more

Tags: Aaron Poochigian, Best American Poetry, Elizabeth Bishop, food, Inquisitive Eater, John Berryman, New School, New York, Philip Larkin, poetry, Poetry Society of America, shared meals, tiny apartment, Vijay Seshadri

Another reason to love NYC, and it involves the MTA

March 28, 2012

Also, of course, the Poetry Society of America. Terrific news read more

Tags: Alice Quinn, Dorothea Tanning, Jean Valentine, motion, MTA, New York, poetry, Poetry In Motion, Poetry Society of America, Sandra Bloodworth, subway riders, subways

Melons

August 12, 2011

Green Buddhas
On the fruit stand.
We eat the smile
And spit out the teeth.
—Charles Simic read more

Tags: food, poetry