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LOOKING OUT, ANY TIME I draw the praise-lines of a letter alpha or omega to honor light & air which refuse to be drawn as, right now, they engineer the east-borne career of three white clouds...

Two Poems (November 2016)

TWO POEMS BY MARIE PONSOT the way out is in In an oval world where points of view are eye-shaped, out of a round world, helpless, where even the hamburger has an accredited helper, dirt...

Two Poems (June 2016)

TWO POEMS BY MARIE PONSOT WILD Even the eagle is deep into dailyness acts as if safe, & is silly during its courtship rituals spends days inspecting impregnable building sites before choosing...

Air Waves (May 2016)

AIR WAVES Set off by the light-governed timer the lawn-sprinkler waves a rain-wall of water east and west. A robin, its bright beak still fledgling-yellow, stands at the verge of the...

Aunt Grace Wears Beautiful Clothes (August 2015)

AUNT GRACE WEARS BEAUTIFUL CLOTHES Asleep, she has no idea she is old. She's running uphill, no lightfoot, but quite fast past the houses and driveways of family friends toward the higher fields...

Celebration (June 2015)

CELEBRATION Light began in September to streak the slant. Now it unseals in the spring, willfully singing the realm of separate design. It picks up the speed of streaming recall and takes us off...

Late Spring As Usual (March 2008)

After Mass, the sisters scattered to the homes of relatives or friends in the village. I went with Sr. Maria, Sr. Hanaa, and Sr. Maysan to Maria’s sister’s home for an enormous breakfast of bread,...

The Tree Says (September 2007)

14 Commonweal . September 28, 2007 Sexual purity, along with obedience, were therefore given extraordinary salience. Hence the tremendous and (as it seems to us) disproportionate fuss that...

Four Sonnets (June 2007)

6. The coming of global Christianity. The reality of global Christianity is arguably the most significant development in the last two centuries of church history. The modern missionary...

The Cosmos Says (March 2007)

The Cosmos Says The doors between the worlds at equinox declare themselves. A perfect stretch of day matches a perfect stretch of night, & the fissure of equipoise at the doors you cannot...

A Rune, Interminable Walking (December 2006)

None of this is too dissimilar from the overall arc of Bennett's show, as it wends its way toward the high-energy finale (realized, in the current revival, by dancers wearing gold costumes and...

On Easter Saturday Bells Whacked the Air (March 2005)

On Easter Saturday Bells Whacked the Air Pet dogs help children. Spring after spring two blaze-white Samoyedes sped me out to my relief to run into a new hush after the last noon clang of...

This Bridge, Like Poetry, Is Vertigo (February 2005)

swallow it. We cannot assimilate it. We cannot become comfortable with it, because it's fundamentally contrary to what we believe as Americans....Every poll shows a vast and growing unease...

Rain All Night (December 1999)

Rain All Night On the road home the tide is rising. Riding the road-tide is dangerous but it's not safe to stand still. Hang on the verge & you drown. I'm going along for the ride. I may see...

Entranced (November 1999)

Entranced I For openers any wall has doors in it. Openers (who want a door not for air but for passing through) open & shut it forcefully, under heavy pressure from the atmosphere...

What would you like to be when you grow up? (May 1998)

What would you like to be when you grow up? I Here I am in the garden on my knees digging as if I were innocent, gloveless in island soil-sandy, unstable, hardly soil at all, very sharp...

Even (April 1998)

Even In a sift of ash in Wales, at the bottom of a pit sunk in the crucial chamber of a passage grave, its stones cut & laid up dry 5000 years ago, about, diggers found and anatomists...

An Altogether Different Language by Anne Porter (November 1995)

BOOKS Step-dancing on a high wire An Altogether Different Language Anne Porter Zoland Books, $16.95,116 pp. Marie Ponsot Anne Porter's An Altogether Different Language is a work of great...

Poetry (April 1992)

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Among Schoolchildren: (November 1989)

REMARKABLE FOR WHAT IT OMITS AMONG SCHOOLCHILDREN Tracy Kidder Houghton Mifflin, $19.95, 340 pp. Marie Ponsot Here is a book of great charm on a subject of the widest interest, pub-lie...

Verse (July 1987)

Marie Ponsot Mel This Year She had gardened her body It goes pruned about her earnest business The wound she has sustained she sustains. She commutes from her hot world and its tame...

Verse (May 1987)

Marie Ponsot (For William Cook, drowned in Maine, and for Boy Huss, lest In Indonesia) Death is breath-taking. We all die young, our lives defined by failure of the heart, our fires drowned in...

Verse (February 1987)

Marie Ponsot Reminder I am rich, I am poor. Time is all I own, & I eat or spit it as experience. By the bitten wound the biting tooth is known. Thrift is a venomous error, then, a stone named...

Verse (January 1987)

Marie Ponsot Proserpine, Packing f have two lives, that change like dreams. One dream, always the same, connects the two, ft always almost seems to come or be able to come true. In this dream...

Critics' Christmas choices (November 1984)

lapses, she assumes the farm's leadership. Her strength is not just outer but inner: Lange convincingly plays Jewell as a powerful introvert whose spiritual resources make her a still center in a...

Pool, Frances

Poole, Stafford

poor, The working

Poorman, Mark L

POPCAK, GREGORY K.

Pope, Dan

POPE, ELIZABETH

Pope, Hugh

Pope, Stephen

Pope, Stephen J

Pope, Stephen J.

Popkin, Henry