by Kate Birch | Jan 9, 2024 | News, Picks of the Month
Lyricism, surreal beauty, authentic capturing of love & loss Maureen Jivani’s poem had a universal resonance. Voters said it brought to mind their first hospital visit, playing with a newborn baby, a mother with a dying daughter. They found the poem,...
by Kate Birch | Jan 3, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Self-Portrait as Road Runner You with your elaborate schemes of entrapment, your hunting parties, moonshine and shot-gun weddings, your Sunday-school socials for girls to glue bird seed and pasta on prayer plaques, sew aprons with Singers– this...
by Kate Birch | Dec 27, 2023 | Filmpoems, Twelve Days of Christmas
The Moth Poem She sees the little lost one everywhere, eyes on the dead moths curled on her windowsill. I see what was: rosy maple moths like Battenbergs on her fingertips, A weaver’s wave moth in the countryside the day she broke down and I wasn’t there....
by Kate Birch | Dec 14, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Lockdown Seven turkey vultures with grasping fingers, their feathers splayed wide along a black fence, the day after I veer around yellow tape and red lights, the news of children murdered once again, every ten days more death...
by Kate Birch | Dec 8, 2023 | News, Picks of the Month
A tiny thing, an absolute punch to the gut though. Ann Heath’s poem was a ‘devastating portrayal of grief’. It moved voters while also perplexing them. It was beautiful and spare but also ‘powerfully odd’ and complex, and it is for this...
