Seven bog body poems at Underfoot Poetry * Links in July * Don’t Be Such a Boar * New poems at Albatross
Poetry:
To the House of the Sun:
Reviews and excerpts here.
Autographed copies available here.
- (forthcoming) Cumberland River Review: Burial: Oleneostrovskii Mogilnik Cemetery (6400-6000 BC), Burial: Skateholm Cemetery (5200-4500 BC)
- (forthcoming) Cider Press Review: Old Man’s Shed, Missing Child
- Underfoot Poetry: Seven bog body poems: Last Meal, Haraldskaer Woman, Tollund Man, Kayhausen Boy, Damendorf Man, Grauballe Man, Lindow Man
- Albatross: Migrations at the End of the Ice Age, Ring of Brodgar, Orkney
- Poethead: Song to Nehalennia (Netherlands, AD 200), Looking for Nerthus (AD 100), Song to Sequana (Burgundy, 100 BC), Song to Sulis (Bath, 100 BC)
- The Basil O’Flaherty: Unfinished Michelangelo, Kafka’s Sisters (1945), The Painted Caves: Chauvet, Lascaux, Altamira (30,000-15,000 BC), A Disciple of Pythagoras Wins a Chariot Race (496 BC)
- The Journal (Wales): Burial: Long Barrows (3800-3400 BC), Burial: Tormarton Ditch, England (1500 BC), Burial: To the Air (3000-1000 BC)
- Concho River Review: Neighborhood
- The High Window: Star Carr (8500 BC), Pytheas in the Shetlands (325 BC), Fire Houses
- Londongrip: Burial: Near Copenhagen (6000 BC), Burial: The Amesbury Archer (2300 BC)
- Poethead: Skara Brae, Horses on Orkney, Bone, Antler, Stone – Museum Pieces, Cuween Chambered Cairn, Robert Oppenheimer, Daedalus and Icarus
- Literary Juice: Odin & Baldr
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Winter Crash
On Writing:
- What’s a Genius To Do?
- The State of Poetry Now?
- There is Only the Trying: Some Thoughts on Fame & Failure
- The State of Poetry … in 1993
Writers & Artists:
- S4N Pocket Poems Series
- Is Shakespeare Just “Okay”?
- Are These Not Three of the Most Amazing Songs You’ve Ever Heard?
- The Palace of Winds (rereading “The English Patient”)
- John Donne: Holy Sonnets & Good Friday
- Early Yeats (12 Poems)
- Daniel Paul Marshall (6 Poems)
- Kafka’s Diaries
- George Orwell in the Coal Mines
- George Orwell & Empathy
- Thomas Wolfe
- “I respond more to revelation”: Hart Crane on fire
- William H. McNeill – History as Myth
- A Bit of Late Yeats
- George Herbert, Getting Back Up
- Picasso & the Gestapo
- Heaney’s Bog Poems
- Allen Ginsberg’s “Kaddish”
- Hart Crane, High & Low
- Yeats Comes to the Occult
- Henry Vaughan (5 Poems)
- Tacitus & Primo Levi
- Whitman Last
- Whitman First
- Yeats Discovers Poetry
- Heaney on Writing
- Joyce & Proust Meet
- T. S. Eliot on Dante
- The Unfinished Kafka
- Wallace Stevens, Intergalactic Planetary
- Heaney Comes to Poetry
- Yeats & Lady Gregory
- Classic Joyce
- Hart Crane to His Father
- Jung’s Great Dream
- T. S. Eliot’s Sacred Wood
- Jean Guehenno’s Diary of the Dark Years
- Albert Camus’s Notebooks
- Hieronymus Bosch
- Albrecht Durer
- Edward Hopper
- Cyril Edwards (Interview)
- What Eliot Means to Me
Mythology & Religion:
- Don’t Be Such a Boar
- Five Seconds from Atheism
- Just Because It Works Doesn’t Mean It’s True
- Classic Jam Hits
- Conrad in the Underworld
- Scripture is Strange
- Uma Instructs the Gods (Kena Upanishad)
- Young Krishna & the Universe in His Mouth
- Notebook 7: Varieties of Religious Practice & Belief
- Notebook 6: Suffering & Justice
- Notebook 5: All Religions Act This Way
- Notebook 4: Religion Against the World & for the World
- Notebook 3: Religion as Mystery, & the Limitations of Knowledge
- Notebook 2: Religion & Originality
- Notebook 1: God’s Will & Interpreting History
- Viking Jesus
- Ship in Air
- Voluspa
- Dante, Through the Fire
- The Corn Mother (Penobscot)
- Egyptian Pyramid Texts
- Rig Veda
- A Visit to the Underworld
- The Bhagavad Gita; The Invention of the Jewish Nose
- Zen (Favorite Passages)
- The Desert Fathers (Favorite Passages)
- The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (Favorite Passages)
- The God of the Philosophers: Ethics & Free Will
- Just the Way Things Are
- All its Ways
- One Thing We All Have in Common
- The Book of Job
- If You Say Your Certainty
- They Are Simply Other Religions
- Orthodoxy is a Fiction
- Help Us Endure
- God’s Will
- Choice
- Erik Hornung’s “Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt”
- Gershom Scholem’s “Origins of the Kabbalah”
Notes from the Grid:
- If You Don’t Believe in Cultural Appropriation, You’re Wrong
- The Dregs of Fame
- What We’re Doing When We Think We’re Doing Nothing
- Powerless but Free?
- On Friendship
- Consider the Lilies that We Aren’t
- How Best to Teach?
- Crying Wolf?
- Do We Just Like What We Like?
- Everything Means Everything
- Empathy & Ultraviolence
- To Criticize the Critic
- Civilization Does Not Civilize
- Home Is Where One Starts From
- On the Road
- Go Ahead & Fuck Up
- We Are Not Safe & Never Will Be
- Historical Accuracy
- The Internet is Not Real
- We Are Our Own Slaves
- The Words Themselves
- The Convenient Gesture
- You Don’t Need This
- Voices from 1900-1914
- A Gallery of Greeks & Romans
- Rebellion & Conformity
- Why We Hate the Poor
- Notes from the Grid #1
- Notes from the Grid #2
- Notes from the Grid #3
Week of the Bomb (2016):
Nonfiction:
- Battle of the Milvian Bridge
- Living Orkney
- Exodus from Paris, 1940
- Blindness, War & History
- Alexander the Great at the Granicus
Travel:
- Living Orkney
- Walking the Brough of Birsay, Orkney
- Walking the Broch of Gurness, Orkney
- Walking Tintagel
- Stonehenge, Castlerigg, Brodgar
- Silence in London
Fiction:
Underfoot Poetry:
- Virginia Slachman (Eden Park Meditation)
- Prufrock & Other Observations (Forerunners)
- Kitty Coles (6 Poems)
- Robinson Jeffers (Forerunners)
- The Song of the Sea (Forerunners)
- Michael McGill (5 Poems)
- Anglo-Saxon Poetry (Forerunners)
- J. S. Belote (5 Poems)
- David Cooke (5 Poems)
- Underfoot Poetry Announcement
