Andrew Frisardi

Thank you.

It is a great poem, do check it out!

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44395/...

In the centre, a light-pink rose with curled petals that give it a slightly angular appearance. It's attached to a bush with plenty of dark green leaves, and there are other smaller pink roses in the background.

Congratulations to all the poets appearing in February's Snakeskin, including Tristan Moss @tristan-moss.bsky.social and my dear friend John Isbell ☺️
My poem is inspired by a garden my mum and I used to pass on our way to the park 💚
Many thanks to editor George Simmers 🙂👍
snakeskinpoetry.co.uk

Congrats Fliss!

Somehow I made The HyperTexts' list of the top 50 contemporary poets and translators 2024 (no. 20). Many thanks to editor Mike Burch ☺️
At no. 2 is Ann Drysdale, who passed away on 16th August 2024. Link to her page below...
www.thehypertexts.com/Most%20Popul...
www.thehypertexts.com/Ann%20Drysda...

I wrote this parody based on Gerard Manley Hopkins's "God's Grandeur" in 2016, but it is unfortunately more relevant than ever.

Such a beautiful poem:

An emendment: it is actually NVR's *3rd* issue.

Another poem I really like in the new New Verse Review is a playful piece, with crackling rhyming and other poetic effects, by #AlfredNicol. Nicol is from my very own home state of Massachusetts, and I am also addicted to cats.

www.newversereview.com/2-1-alfred-n...

New Verse Review is news to me with its 2nd issue. I'm very glad to know of it. For starters, check out the poignant poem, ostensibly about playing AI chess, by #FlissTeague: "I focus on the pieces; other forms / back off, towards the outskirts of my mind."

www.newversereview.com/2-1-felicity...

‘Dante’s Divine Comedy’ Review: Enduring Visions of the Afterlife The Florentine poet’s richly detailed vision of a journey through hell and beyond has inspired other writers and artists for centuries.

My review of a book by Joseph Luzzi about the reception of Dante's "Divine Comedy" over the centuries, and of a new translation of the poem by Michael Palma, is in the Wall Street Journal today:

www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Always good to see John's poems. Thanks for posting.

Thanks, Fliss!

A Good Day for God – a poem by John Claiborne Isbell A Good Day for GodToday has been a good day for God. He has created colors and the antelope, cafés and railway sidings and overpasses.A billion billion leaves are singing His praises, dancing in th…

Congratulations to my dear friend John Isbell, who has a poem published in Amethyst Review today 🤩
The accompanying photo is of a twisty-horned antelope, with kindly eyes and a smile 🤗
amethystmagazine.org/2025/01/23/a...

‘Dante’s Divine Comedy’ Review: Enduring Visions of the Afterlife The Florentine poet’s richly detailed vision of a journey through hell and beyond has inspired other writers and artists for centuries.

My review of a book by Joseph Luzzi about the reception of Dante's "Divine Comedy" over the centuries, and of a new translation of the poem by Michael Palma, is in the Wall Street Journal today:

www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Enjoying this new book by #DanaGioia and reading its essays in no particular order.

Image of a late-medieval crowd celebrating Carnival; cover of book titled "After the Carnival."

Some of you will be interested to know that #AlfredNicol has a new book out from #WisebloodBooks. I certainly am!

Hard Hearts: Reflections on Human Nature in the Context of the Gaza War The essay explores King Lear's question: Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts? Advocating spiritual and ethical literacy in a world that undermines the Sacred, the essay upholds J...

A profound essay by Ali Lakhani on spiritual and moral principles and their violation in the war in Gaza, drawing on such diverse sources as King Lear; Sufism; Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptures; Gandhi; Abraham Joshua Heschel; and more.

www.sacredweb.com/volume-51/ha...

Sacred Web 51 Published in January 2025, Volume 51 offers a collection of essays & poems rooted in traditional metaphysics, exploring spiritual, ethical, & artistic themes. Topics range from reflections on light an...

The formerly print journal Sacred Web, which explores modernity through the lens of traditional metaphysical principles, is now online and free. I have 5 poems and an essay on Edwin Muir in this inaugural issue.

www.sacredweb.com/volume-51/

Wonderful opening to Dante Public Lecture Series last night with Prof. Stephen Milner (Uni of Manchester) on Dante and Political Economy in the Industrial Age. See recording here: youtu.be/EIlEyZ8zFTQ?...

Next up we will have Prof. Zyg Barański on the structures of Dante’s afterlife #Dante #AcademicSky

Thanks Fliss. It was indeed a happy birthday.

My poem, “Inauguration Day,” is today’s top story at The New Verse News.

Edwin Muir FOR ANN SCOTT-MONCRIEFF (1914–1943) Dear Ann, wherever you are Since you lately learnt to die, You are this unsetting star That shines unchanged in my eye; So near, inaccessible, Absent and present so much Since out of the world you fell, Fell from hearing and touch— So near. But your mortal tongue Used for immortal use, The grace of a woman young, The air of an early muse, The wealth of the chambered brow And soaring flight of your eyes: These are no longer now. Death has a princely prize. You who were Ann much more Than others are that or this, Extravagant over the score To be what only is, Would you not still say now What you once used to say Of the great Why and How, On that or the other day? For though of your heritage The minority here began, Now you have come of age And are entirely Ann. Under the years’ assaults, In the storm of good and bad, You too had the faults That Emily Brontë had, Ills of body and soul, Of sinner and saint and all Who strive to make themselves whole, Smashed to bits by the Fall. Yet ‘the world is a pleasant place’ I can hear your voice repeat, While the sun shone in your face Last summer in Princes Street.

Dear Ann, wherever you are
Since you lately learnt to die,
You are this unsetting star
That shines unchanged in my eye…

Born in Kirkwall, Ann Scott-Moncrieff was a friend of the Orkney poet & translator Edwin Muir, who wrote this poem for her when she died.
7/7

It happens to be my birthday that day, damn it.

Time to blow out the cake and eat the candles.

And avoid TV.

A new issue of the excellent new poetry journal New Verse News.

Check it out!

So many, but if I had to choose one it would be Dante's Divina Commedia

Today’s Poem: Auld Lang Syne The Old Long Since

Happy New Year to all! The bros are about to turn up again here 🥳
Thanks to all my poetry people for your support through 2024. Of 60 submissions, I received 42 acceptances; it was 1/1 for my second collection (still in shock!) 😮
PA&M today: poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/todays-poe... ☺️

Happy 2025, Fliss, that's quite a scorecard for 2024!

The January issue of The HyperTexts is out today: www.thehypertexts.com/current_and_...
In the spotlight alongside Editor Mike Burch's collections 'New Year Poetry' and 'Famous Poems about Drinking' are Luis Cuauhtemoc Berroizabal, Martin McCarthy, Tom Merrill, Shannon Winestone, Bob Zisk, and me ☺️