The Yawp Barbaric

Metaphor and Metamorphosis

August 19, 2014

Dramatic Setting

July 15, 2014

Más Cerca: In search of the authentic

June 17, 2014

Poisoned Well

The title of New Mexico State University poet Richard Greenfield's most recent book, Tracer, is complicated.

Jon Davis May 20, 2014

Then. And Since Then

When Lou Reed died I revisited Carol Moldaw's poem 'Lou Reed in Istanbul', which lets us glimpse the spirit of Lou Reed's music at work in the world.

Jon Davis April 15, 2014

The Crux

David Mutschlecner, author most recently of Enigma and Light, lives in Los Alamos. He is a devoted reader of poetry and philosophy and a careful viewer of art.

Jon Davis March 18, 2014

If your first circle is anything like mine, it overlaps with Pound's circle to create a small crescent. My knowledge of English is in that crescent, my remedial grasp of history, a dash of Dante, a high school encounter with Homer, brief excursions into

Jon Davis February 18, 2014

Behold, Pointlessness

Last Thursday, I listened to four wildly diverse poets read their work aloud. A wonderful opportunity for some of us, was a minor plague, I'm sure, for others. I kept thinking, poor fiction writers and nonfiction writers; poor screenwriters; poor food p

Jon Davis January 15, 2014

Avoidance and Confrontation

One of the qualities I admire in Santa Fe poet Dana Levin's work is her willingness to address difficult issues head on. In "Moo and Thrall," the speaker of the poem goes looking for coffee and walks straight into a graphic anti-abortion demonstrati

Jon Davis December 17, 2013