Tattoo poetry is permanent poetry—captured by the body that bears it. There’s a sense in which it is locked in time and form, much the way the painted Greek lovers were perpetually locked to the vase in “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”
Poetry Classroom: The Painted Lady and the Thistle
Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom, with poet and professor Julie L. Moore. Come discuss a painted lady and Adam.
Poetry Classroom: Life Outside
Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom, with poet Tania Runyan, author of A Thousand Vessels and Simple Weight.
Adam and Eve Poems by the Narrow Lake
Pleating hems, plying fringes, nesting. All here, in poems of Adam and Eve.