‘Another Species’ and Other Poems by Sally Cook The Society June 23, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments . Another Species Each time you felt some shame you could confess The sins you had committed, but instead You whispered a revision, something less In...
‘Bohème’ and Other Poems by Sally Cook The Society March 26, 2025 Beauty, Performing Arts, Poetry 9 Comments . Bohème Opera in a bare and frigid room As winter winds were sweeping, like a broom, Raised an enthusiasm, understood As contrast to the landscape....
‘A Summer Hour’ and Other Poems by Sally Cook The Society February 6, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 9 Comments . A Summer Hour A burgeoning bush, some butterflies, Low wooden steps, warped, faded, rise Amid the calm of idle talk— The blur of shadows on the...
‘The Night My Father Punched the Cow’: A Poem by Sally Cook The Society October 19, 2024 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . The Night My Father Punched the Cow The night my father punched the cowWas dark and windy, late; and nowHis job was dangling on a row,And he was...
‘Recipe for a Poem’ by Sally Cook The Society September 4, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 30 Comments . Recipe for a Poem Scraped clean of glib and warty observation, On pristine paper place one piercing thought. Add in the fragrant oil of...
‘A Town’ and Other Poems by Sally Cook The Society July 11, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 11 Comments . A Town The difficulty of describing how This town was then, may only be because So little happened there, compared to now, Though what occurred...
‘Mates of the Greats’: A Poem by Sally Cook The Society June 15, 2024 Art, Poetry, Satire 25 Comments . Mates of the Greats Gauguin the banker thought Painting while married was Quite a nice hobby And so did his wife. But then in Tahiti Paul met with...
‘A Reverie’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook The Society April 9, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 19 Comments . A Reverie Some days in August there’s a summer hum Of distant outboard motors, or a plane Relentlessly pursuing a puffed cloud, Echoes of past...
‘An Idyll at the Local Diner’ and Other Poems by Sally Cook The Society February 26, 2024 Beauty, Music, Poetry 13 Comments . An Idyll at the Local Diner There is this place where you can get a fill And top your tank off any time of day. Amid the ketchup jugs upon...
‘At The Metropolitan Museum’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook The Society December 26, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 14 Comments . At The Metropolitan Museum one good reason for the French Revolution Once at the Met, we walked the halls, and she Looked past locked doors, each...
Andrew Benson Brown Reads Poems by Sally Cook, Sancia Milton, Yapko, and Tweedie The Society December 18, 2023 Classical Poets Live, Poetry, Readings 8 Comments ...
Three Poems by Sally Cook The Society November 15, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 34 Comments . Poetry A poem, subscribing to a plan, Flies higher than the highest planes, Seems safer than a rose-red tan, Or traffic in the fastest lanes, Where...
‘Hybrid and Wild’ and Other Poems by Sally Cook The Society October 5, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . Hybrid and Wild All of her life had a meaning, Each section in its compartment. Tenants went through a close screening— Somehow, I got the...
‘Three Ways of Avoiding Reason’: A Poem by Sally Cook The Society September 18, 2023 Poetry, Satire 21 Comments . Three Ways of Avoiding Reason . Ambivalence The man who doesn’t want a thing (And then he does) will tend to cling. Don’t importune him in his...
Poetry Book Review: Making Music by Sally Cook The Society September 1, 2023 Art, Poetry, Reviews 16 Comments . Reviewed Book: Making Music by Sally Cook, White Violet Press, 2012 by Monika Cooper Making Music by Sally Cook is a book that comes with a...
‘Curious Couplets’: A Poem by Sally Cook The Society August 6, 2023 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 29 Comments . Curious Couplets . Goose Lady When driving through a blizzard, Marge Espied a goose, not over large. Determinedly it marched along— One wing...
CPL: Pulitzer Prize Winner, Sally Cook, Interview with Susan Jarvis Bryant, Thomas Gray, and More The Society May 13, 2023 Classical Poets Live, Interviews, Poetry, Readings, Video 38 Comments . Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown Episode 2: Fake Poets and Hollow Prestige . Audio version available here: Spotify:...
‘The Cat Who Barked’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook The Society March 26, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 28 Comments . The Cat Who Barked There is a row of trees that crowd the ground, They’re dark and still. My cat lies in that spot. His tiger stripes were equal...
‘A Holy Picnic’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook The Society January 2, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 32 Comments . A Holy Picnic A small child had a vision in the light Of day, while sitting square upon the rug. It seemed as if she rose to a great height, And...
‘The Animals on Christmas Eve’ by Sally Cook The Society December 24, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 27 Comments . The Animals on Christmas Eve Some boarded dogs stayed for a while Until their owners took them home; I walked them all, in single file, But left...
‘What Geese May Teach’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook The Society December 4, 2022 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 19 Comments . What Geese May Teach My mother had the power that knowledge wields, So questions such as—Would you like to go? Were never invitations, but...
‘Writing a Poem’ by Sally Cook The Society November 13, 2022 Beauty, Education, Poetry 15 Comments . Writing a Poem Our planet moves, and so do we, By forces that we cannot see. Rhyme, meter always seem to track The rhythm of the planet. Lack Of...
‘Sex in the English Garden’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook The Society September 26, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 14 Comments . Sex in the English Garden Light, feathery Astilbe Sways gently in the breeze Afraid she always will be Faint fluff beneath the trees Concealing...
‘Advice from the Untalented’ and Other Poems by Sally Cook The Society June 23, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 19 Comments . Advice from the Untalented They smugly said I’d never make much money From playing with my words and making art, That it would be a waste to...
‘All Are Numbered’ and Other Poems by Sally Cook The Society May 17, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 28 Comments . All Are Numbered Moving along the narrow grassy rows Under a sherbet sky, time seems to be The only place where nothing ever grows Or dies, and...
Two Poems on the Departed, by Sally Cook The Society March 15, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 38 Comments . Berenice for my mother, Berenice Stone Cook Indebted to a simple spark of life, You missed your chance at Europe’s wondrous door. A conscientious...
Two Poems for Christmastide by Sally Cook The Society January 1, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . Last Christmas I’d rushed there through the afternoon In someone else’s borrowed car Where you, distressed I’d come too soon, Were giving...
‘Allentown Nights’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook The Society November 29, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 23 Comments . Allentown Nights Sometimes the nights were full of evil there. Relentless searchers drove the block most nights, While novices in bushes would...
‘An Interlude’ by Sally Cook The Society November 6, 2021 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 22 Comments . He was the stream and she the underbrush; The rain that fell upon his upturned face. She was the shadowed glade in evening's hush That memorized...
‘Making All Things Orderly’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook The Society July 20, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 25 Comments . Making All Things Orderly Stare at grey clapboards in unbroken rows That seem to follow the unceasing sound Of thrumming traffic, with no vibrant...
‘The State of Art’ and Other Poems by Sally Cook The Society May 21, 2021 Art, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 24 Comments . The State of Art The art world has completely turned around. Now critics blind themselves, or close their eyes, Shout how their contacts and their...
‘The Second Roman Empire’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook The Society March 18, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 22 Comments . The Second Roman Empire Those were the days, when Julius Caesar Saw a country and would seize her, And the busty Roman matrons Ran the house and...
‘Father And John: How It Once Was’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook The Society January 25, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . . Father And John: How It Once Was Before self-righteous rules, brash and insistent,There was a natural rhythm, quite unspoken.So when my father...
‘To Some Other Poets’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook The Society December 5, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 26 Comments . To Some Other Poets Let hoary heads divine and then divide,Dot i’s and dance on pins and sneer with pride,And ogle with an obverse obfuscationTo...
Essay: ‘Portrait of a Millennial Art Student’ by Sally Cook The Society October 24, 2020 Art, Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Essays, Poetry 22 Comments You’ve grown up in the public school system, and it shows. You are sensitive to the world around you, and in touch with your...
‘Reflections of an Aging Moon’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook The Society September 27, 2020 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 25 Comments Reflections of an Aging Moon Great brassy stalks of varicolored horns Blow notes to keep the bees awake at noon. Immersed in gaudy zinnia’s...
Poems on Famous Composers by Sally Cook The Society June 19, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Music, Poetry 9 Comments Johann Sebastian Bach Truly loved music, yet Managed to wed twice And father a gang. The kids took their tonics, Eschewed bad...
New Sally Cook Art Exhibit Can Be Visited Virtually The Society April 13, 2020 Art, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 32 Comments The painter and poet Sally Cook has a new exhibition at UB Art Galleries. Because of the current coronavirus pandemic, UB Art Galleries has...
‘Mama’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook The Society January 21, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, The Environment 19 Comments Mama My mama took two drinks a year; A shot glass down the gullet— Yet hated bars and abhorred beer. Would execute a pullet— An ax, a...
‘To The Poet Leo Yankevich’ by Sally Cook The Society November 29, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments Perhaps the color of your world was dun, And you sank in your couch when work was done, To calculate injustice, add the sum, Saw all was...
