I end this month's run of ekphrastic poems with yet another approach to the genre, by  John Yau  (1950-), a poet whose work has gar...

Shin Yu Pai ( Seattle Review of Books ) Back in 2008, the multi-talented  Shin Yu Pai published a book of collected poems entitled S...

Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge (Kelsey Street Press) It was only a matter of time before I posted a poem by  Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge (1947-) dur...

Monica Youn I should start today's post by saying I'd initially imagined, as I often do, that these entries would be brief and ...

Cathy Song, at the Island School, April 17, 2015, from a post by Peggy Ellenburg (courtesy of The Voyager Voice) Continuing the ekp...

Prageeta Sharma, Lantern Review's Flickr photo stream These are troubled times, but then one could easily say all times are so, de...

Here's a delightful little poem by Shin Yu Pai , a poet with whom I share a publisher ( 1913 Press , which has all kinds of great new...

Li-Young Lee (1957-) is one of those poets who entered my consciousness like a meteor when I was younger; in fact, it was his book The City...

Lest we forget that in the digital age new kinds of poems are possible, and that writers are creating them, here is one by Tan Lin (19_?-),...

"This is a song for the genius child." - Langston Hughes Hughes was incontestably a genius, as is Ronaldo V. Wilson . (But his s...

Since I've between splitting my tweeting @harriet_poetry, I thought it might be a good option to introduce a different form every day (e...