C. Dale Young's Blog, page 16
May 16, 2017
My Family’s Slave
My Family’s Slave: Alex Tizon shares a complex, complicated and haunting story of his family.(click...
May 13, 2017
“For Its Blue Flickering” by C. Dale Young
If you take cobalt as a simple salt
and dissolve it—if you dip a small metal loop
in such a...
and dissolve it—if you dip a small metal loop
in such a...
May 5, 2017
State Lines: California poetry: C. Dale Young’s ‘The Halo’
State Lines: California poetry: C. Dale Young’s ‘The Halo’: The title poem from my last poetry...
April 30, 2017
“Hope is the Thing With Feathers” by Emily Dickinson
‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers—That perches in the soul—And sings the tune without...
from “Song of Myself,” section 11 in LEAVES OF GRASS by Walt Whitman
Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,
Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly;
Twenty-eight...
Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly;
Twenty-eight...
April 29, 2017
“A Brief for the Defense” by Jack Gilbert
Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babiesare not starving someplace, they are...
April 28, 2017
“Musée des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden
About suffering they were never wrong,The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human...
Its human...
April 27, 2017
Publishing Triangle Poetry Awards
The Publishing Triangle has announced that the Audre Lorde Award for
lesbian poetry goes to...
lesbian poetry goes to...
“The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews” by Amy Clampitt
An ingenuity too astonishingto be quite fortuitous isthis bog full of sundews, sphagnum-lined and...
April 26, 2017
“To Swim, to Believe” by Maxine Kumin
The beautiful excess of Jesus on the watersis with me now in the Boles Natatorium.This bud of me...
