All This Is That

By Jack Brummet  You think one thing, Say another, And do a third.     ---o0o---

For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell "Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam." The old South Boston Aquarium stands in ...

One must have a mind of winter  To regard the frost and the boughs  Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold a long tim...

By Jack Brummet, Poetry Ed. Dream Song 29 By John Berryman T here sat down, once, a thing on Henry’s heart    só heavy, i...

By Jack Brummet, Poetry Ed. A sad, but fascinating memoir of one of my poetry mentors, Bob Huff.   Jump here, to Lewis Turco's bl...

Theodore Roethke's pub song, "Gob Music" [click the images below to enlarge]

By Jack Brummet  Kit Smart is one of my favorite poets.  This is excerpt, written in the mid-18th century, is from Jubilate Agno, which h...

Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem about the city of gold.  The line from this poem "Ride, boldly ride," has been used as the t...

By Jack Brummet When I walked into Third Place Books yesterday, they were handing out a mimeographed/photocopied (?) copy of one of my fa...