I’m passing on the following announcement from New York City’s Mormon Artist Group:
New York City’s Mormon Artists Group recently announce the publication of Javen Tanner’s first volume of poetry, Curses for Your Sake. Continue reading “News: Poetry Chapbook from MAG”
How agreeable it is not to be touring Italy this summer
wandering her cities and ascending her torrid hill towns.
How much better to cruise these local, familiar streets,
fully grasping the meaning of every road sign and billboard
and all the sudden hand gestures of my compatriots.
Those five lines, the first stanza of Billy Collins’ poem “Consolation,” introduce him as well as any might. Collins is not afraid of being appreciated by ordinary people, he uses humor to illuminate more weighty subjects, he is at once beguiling and profound. Continue reading “Billy Collins on Mormon Literature”
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