Welcome to The Poetry Conversation with Sharon Bryan.
I post weekly thoughts on poetry, and I hope you’ll join in. I think of this site as a big room with comfortable chairs where we can gather to talk about poems and poets, craft, translation, what it is to be a poet, what others are reading and listening to, whatever interests you. I’ll be inviting other poets to do guest posts, so please feel free to make suggestions.
-
Recent Thoughts
Lost Children
Thinking of all the families steeped in grief now, and the rest of us grieving with them. Two poems,…
-
First Loves Redux
For the past few weeks we’ve talked about deep reading and allusion–heady stuff, and crucial. This week I’d…
-
More on Allusion in Poetry with guest Judith Baumel
This week’s post is a continuation of our last discussion about allusion in poetry. Each poet’s imagination is…
-
Reading Deeply: Allusion
Sometimes reading poems deeply requires not just repeated readings, but looking up information off the page: unfamiliar words,…
-
Reading Deeply
Last week’s post and Fridays at 4 conversation were about Poems You’ve Changed Your Mind About over time, for…
-
Poems of Place
The first thing I thought of when I saw that the Russians had attacked Lviv was Adam Zagajewski’s…
