‘I am a garden of black and red agonies.’ In a maternity ward, three women contemplate their lives, the brutality … More
Category: Poetry Postmortem
This series takes a poem and breaks it down, pulling in background information, outside sources, and my own personal experience as a poet.
Poetry Postmortem #10: Love in the Asylum
After falling ill at the famed Chelsea Hotel, Dylan Thomas was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital where he succumbed to … More
Poetry Postmortem (8) / Patient: The Tears of Things by Maya C. Popa
Author’s Note: The Poetry Postmortem is where I take a poem I or someone else wrote and I discuss it … More
Poetry Postmortem (7)
Patient: The Underground by Seamus Heaney Over on my Substack, I have this series called Poetry Postmortem. The purpose of … More
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