Being an editor is, psychologically, tough work. I feel often enough that I am judging individual selections of writers’ work and poems both objectively and subjectively. Here is what that process looks like: Objectively: I look first for form. What is the poem’s format? What is the stanza style? How are the line breaks thought […]Read Post ›
love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away… and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast…. be happy about your growth, in which of course you can’t take anyone with you, and be gentle with […]Read Post ›
After receiving the latest issue of the Kenyon Review, I have realized how well formal poems and natural images coincide. Nature, in itself, has structure; from the Macrocosm down to the Quantum level, despite our lack of knowledge in both fields of study. Many examples of this come from Antiquity of course. Shakespeare’s sonnets often […]Read Post ›
“listen / to make life first you need a dying star / this seems important with you so close to / collapsing yourself the mute swan’s final / burst of song” – from “Portrait of the Alcoholic with Moths and River”, Thrush “. . . even God forgets God he /sucks a ruby to remind […]Read Post ›
In LGBTQ studies, Gender Theory, and Queer Theory, to “queer” something is, according to American Heritage Dictionaries, turn it strange or unusual and/or deviate it from the norm. Once a slang term of offense for gay or lesbian people, it is now a reformed word to cover the umbrella of sexual identities. Aside from people, […]Read Post ›
Hello all who follow or read, I have a new personal website which will supplement this poetry blog. It is simply samueljfox.com and you can find more information about me there. Please visit me so I will not be lonely. Thank you!
Hey all! Just a reminder that my daily poem blog for the month of April is up and running. Make sure you check it out!
Hello followers and friends, I will be joining the festivity and celebration of poetry for National Poetry Month by displaying micro-poetry on a separate blog. They will be deleted on May 1st; therefore, read while you can. I do not normally post poems on social media or otherwise as I normally attempt to publish them […]Read Post ›
Storm Toward Morning by Malachi Black is one of my recent favorite books of 2015. I am reading it through for the third time now in this new year, and every time I read it I discover an aspect of each poem, despite their short stature, that I had not spotted before. This collection hinges […]Read Post ›
Many people have heard the name Robert Frost in regards to poetry. If I were to ask several people what their favorite Robert Frost poem, the response would yield two main poems, one of which is “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (I’ll let you guess the other response). The poem itself is in […]Read Post ›
Thus Spoke the Poet 