For National Poetry Month, Conundrum Press has asked our poets, writers, and contributors to offer their thoughts on poetry. We will be publishing reflections throughout the month. Chris Ransick: Imagine a world without poetry. Go ahead, try it. It’s difficult to do. Begin at the beginning, then. A small band of early human beings huddle […]
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Lyricless: In Honor of National Poetry Month
April 28th, 2016 | by Ashley Teatum | published in Blog, Chris Ransick | Leave A Comment »
What We Can Learn From Poetry In Writing And Life: In Honor Of National Poetry Month
April 27th, 2016 | by Ashley Teatum | published in Blog | Leave A Comment »
For National Poetry Month, Conundrum Press has asked our poets, writers, and contributors to offer their thoughts on poetry. We will be publishing reflections throughout the month. Stephen J. McConnell: I fell in love with writing because of poetry. I learned to write with beauty and pain, with power and grace, with flow and rhythm […]
A Night at Stonehenge: In Honor of National Poetry Month
April 26th, 2016 | by Ashley Teatum | published in Blog, Juliana Aragón Fatula | Leave A Comment »
For National Poetry Month, Conundrum Press has asked our poets, writers, and contributors to offer their thoughts on poetry. We will be publishing reflections throughout the month. Juliana Aragón Fatula: I’m an artist. I need music, drums, dancing, shouting. I treat writing like a sport. When I teach writing workshops, we chant and cheer motivational […]
Bly Vs. Fulton: Tranströmer’s Poem “Allegro,” In Honor of National Poetry Month
April 23rd, 2016 | by steve mcconnell | published in Blog, Rebecca Snow | Leave A Comment »
For National Poetry Month, Conundrum Press has asked our poets, writers, and contributors to offer their thoughts on poetry. We will be publishing reflections throughout the month. Rebecca Snow Last year, after hearing the news of Tomas Tranströmer’s death, I renewed my effort to sneak poetry into my English composition classes. When the Swedish poet […]
Freedom in the Unanswerable: In Honor of National Poetry Month
April 22nd, 2016 | by steve mcconnell | published in Blog | Leave A Comment »
For National Poetry Month, Conundrum Press has asked our poets, writers, and contributors to offer their thoughts on poetry. We will be publishing reflections throughout the month. Patricia McCrystal: From the time we are young, we navigate a world crafted for us by story tellers. Our first memories are stories and their endings. Our parents […]
Reading Walt Whitman: In Honor of National Poetry Month
April 21st, 2016 | by steve mcconnell | published in Blog, Sigman Byrd | Leave A Comment »
For National Poetry Month, Conundrum Press has asked our poets and writers to offer their thoughts on poetry. We will be publishing reflections throughout the month. Sigman Byrd: This spring I have been re-reading Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself. The sweeping catalogs of nineteenth-century American life and New World audacity and mysticism have hooked me. […]
A Dog, A Beer, A Poem: In Honor of National Poetry Month
April 20th, 2016 | by steve mcconnell | published in Blog, Bruce Berger | Leave A Comment »
For National Poetry Month, Conundrum Press has asked our poets and writers to offer their thoughts on poetry. We will be publishing reflections throughout the month. Bruce Berger: I write poems the way my dog drinks beer. My mind tenders a thought. I sniff and turn up my nose. Then under the insistence of a […]
Collected Poems: In Honor of National Poetry Month
April 19th, 2016 | by steve mcconnell | published in Blog, Teow Lim Goh | Leave A Comment »
For National Poetry Month, Conundrum Press has asked our poets and writers to offer their thoughts on poetry. We will be publishing reflections throughout the month. Teow Lim Goh: Lately I have been reading volumes of collected poems, in particular, those of Jack Gilbert, Louise Glück, and Muriel Rukeyser. For a poet to have a […]
It’s a “Conundrum Saturday” at Denver’s BookBar!
April 1st, 2016 | by steve mcconnell | published in Blog, Events, Uncategorized | Leave A Comment »
Lit lovers are in for a treat this Saturday, April 2, at Denver’s BookBar. Three wonderful Colorado-Conundrum authors will read from their works at the 4280 Tennyson Street bookshop/wine bar. Attendance is free and open to everyone. Chris Ransick will get things started with readings from his poetry at 5:30 p.m. (with a social hour […]
Islanders by Teow Lim Goh
March 25th, 2016 | by caleb | published in Blog, New Releases, Poetry, Teow Lim Goh | 2 Comments »
Between 1910 and 1940, Chinese immigrants to America were detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station in the San Francisco Bay. As they waited for weeks and months to know if they could land, some of them wrote poems on the walls. All the poems we have on record were found in the men’s barracks: […]
