poetry
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After Italo Calvino’s INVISIBLE CITIES A thin black spires raises to the sun-soaked sky, a calm choked with flowers. All people invisible as the dew, light fractures them open in squares and markets, on balconies and terraces. The water only exists in memory with the land, long canals dig the city like veins, but their…
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A little belated, but so happy to have a poem in the new issue of Gordon Square Review! Please head over there and support all the writers by reading Issue 10! http://www.gordonsquarereview.org/
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Today I wanted to share Cuyahoga County Library’s last day of Read+Write April, which features my friend Katie Mertz! I hope that you all had a beautiful and fruitful poetry month! Happy writing and happy warm weather soon.
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Another morning shifts into view like frost receding from rooftops, the unexpected cold of April’s end. The sheets are warm with your body, the imprint next to me where your hand pressed the mattress. Now entropy. I have to leave this space and wake the baby. I finger the edge of the comforter will-less to…
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Happy earth day! Let’s talk aubade. Also known as the dawn song, the aubade greets the morning with joy and grieves the loss of the night. It flows from the darkness into the brightness of dawn, remembering the togetherness of night between lovers. The poem comes from as earliest as the twelfth century, but the…
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Sliver of the icicle from a clogged gutter in April, wind like a spray // of water, biting raw our cheeks and hands held to pray. A rolling over in my belly, again. You awaken like spring // should be. Up with the hyacinths and daffodils opening petals to pray. Sticky fingers in my hair,…
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The ghazal! An Arabic poetic form originating from the 7th century that relies on repetition and lingers between the pain of loss and the beauty of love despite the loss. It’s absolutely gorgeous, but incredibly difficult to pull off in English. ghazals must have at least five rhyming couplets or bayts and can have as…
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The elusive sonnet. Shakespearean, Petrarchan, traditional or modern, love them or hate them. There’s so much scholarship out there about sonnets, but my favorite is definitely Stephen Fry’s section on sonnets from The Ode Less Travelled. Learning about ancient metered poetic forms from a comedian really does it for me! Here’s an excerpt: So for…
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I am thrilled to share another wonderful April of poetry with you all! Local highlights this month include: -April 7, Flying Words Project at Kent State -April 9, “How Do We Talk To Each Other?” The Cleveland Humanities Festival -April 21, Ekphrastacy at Heights Arts -April 24-May 1, Lakefront Cleveland Poetry Festival, including workshops, open…
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So happy to announce that I have been awarded the 2022 Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council! I am thrilled to be named among so many talented Ohio artists and so grateful for the recognition of the council for my body of work. The poems that I submitted represent such a labor of…
Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro 