‘Paperbark Maples’: A Poem by Daniel Kemper
. Paperbark Maples The leaves grow bright with dew; the trunks grow dark. A contrapuntal autumn morning stirs. The smoothest ...
. Paperbark Maples The leaves grow bright with dew; the trunks grow dark. A contrapuntal autumn morning stirs. The smoothest ...
. . If You Want to Get Someone’s Attention If you want to get someone's attention, then whisperor commit a ...
. A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part V: Nose Blind by Daniel Kemper After a stressful day, because of ...
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. A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part III: Something in the Rafters by Daniel Kemper I wander into the ...
. The Figure Skater Across the frozen way, stamping, sprinting, faster as hurried steps display something that she'll master her ...
. AI's Promise What is the latest ingenious ability makers have made out as mental agility? Smoothly unveiling the newest ...
. A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part II: The First Reader by Daniel Kemper Keith stands up semi-gracefully in ...
. Another Coffee Shop, Another Crush Another coffee shop, another crush, a moment frozen just before my turn, a chance ...
. A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part I: Before the Reading by Daniel Kemper A two-story, square shaped ...
. For Paavo Nurmi who trained against his stop-watch and in medias rez we begin as the runners approach the ...
. Left Outside The shopping cart, precisely ordered now while searching for those perfect little lines of lights for decorations---anyhow, ...
. The Barista’s Hands Surprisingly, she knew my name and used the chance to give a fleeting glimpse and catch ...
. Carving Fingers "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." ---St. Paul Percy exhales with a scowl and ...
. A burst of laughter slips into an echo past the tinny bells and rattling glass of Joe's, my corner ...
. Part II of the Coffee Trilogy. (Part I can be found here.) In the beginning was the Word, and ...
. “That must have been some cup of coffee!” ---Charles Ellik The coffee spins and I am not the same. ...
. Do they still dance on old walkwayswith lowered shoulders, mastered breathand almost martial, measured gazethough one that's bent on ...
X Every Little Thing I. His Version She treasured every little thing that you ...
. The hills that Joseph meditated on were black and just a bit like elephants, but if somehow they ...
Yearning for Castles and Gargoyles Among the towers never made of ivory, protruding lewdly over walls of mottled stone, ...
News of the Revolution Revolt or riot? Both? Or civil war? No matter what, who hasn't realized the revolution's ...
The harvest of an ancient past can waft to mind as we enjoy a measured taste of last year's ...
Before the plague I never knew my hands. The need to purify the human touch has turned my vision ...
As Alexander rose upon a hill, somewhere east of King Darius’s dust, at once a pure, serene and awful ...
. The Society of Classical Poets Journal XIII has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those ...
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. The Society of Classical Poets Journal X has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those ...
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. “I want answers. I want all the words the poem whispers to be made flesh, to sit opposite me, ...
by Daniel Kemper “Metrical variation” is widely used in discussing late twentieth and early twenty-first century poetry writing. Although this ...
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The Crown of Wuhan by Daniel Kemper "Hast thou forgot me then?" says she of dreams, "A Goddess arm'd ...
. The Society of Classical Poets Journal XI has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those ...
Joseph and Brian have said already everything I would have wanted to say. "Some of my best friends are Jewish"…
Bob has made me want a cracker. I will have to speak with Polly, but let's keep the lawyers out…
What does a metalsmith have to say about music? Though I suppose there are few instruments that can be made…
One cannot merely read your poetry, Brian; you create multi-sensory experiences. I don't just see the words; I hear the…
The poem is moving, and for some strange reason the temporal specificity of it (an actual date in A.D. 353,…
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