Psyche's Horse

11/10/2022

This Is Not a Small Voice - This is not a small voice

09/20/2022

Brigid is back! For, Poems of our Climate ::
A poetics lab ::
6 weeks online beginning October 16th — totally asynchronous

Climate effects our physical and psychic experience of life on the planet with others. Our relationship to climate has been the seed of origin stories, the imagery of our emotional lives and the inspiration for human and animal creations. Think of Shakespeare’s The Tempest or King Lear, Keat’s Odes, or T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland. Think of squirrels hiding nuts, bower birds, beached whales and disrupted migration rhythms. Climate is reshaping our homes, our cities and our dreams. It will shape our relationships to other life forms as the new behaviors of animals coming into human habitats or the discovery of dinosaur foot prints after drought are exposing.

In this poetry lab we will write from the climate of mind inside our changing climate. You may write about climate change directly or about its presence in your awareness, your dreams, your world, your relationships. You will have options to try particular formal experiments or at least take off from them. These experiments are keyed to ways poetic form allows us to use language at extremities—enjambment, verb tense, repetition, the image and rhythm of words across the page, grammatical voice, and call/response.

This lab is open to all.

09/15/2022

"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened."
Anatole France

Paula Belle Flores - Dancing in the Rain.
Paula Belle Flores

09/15/2022

We are pleased to announce that climate scientist Dr. Peter Kalmus and poet Matthew Olzmann will judge our 2023 Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize, first established in 2019 with support from Treehouse Investments. Submissions will be accepted online from September 15, 2022 through November 15, 2022 (11:59 p.m. EST). Learn more: https://poets.org/judges-2023-treehouse-climate-action-poem-prize

07/28/2022

There's been a lot of amazing moments in my life, and this one is right there at the top - singing American Tune with Paul Simon on guitar at Newport Folk Festival this year.

It's very important to say that Paul changed the lyrics, not me - and this song has become one that is so dear to my heart for its ability to say what I have been feeling for a long time.

So honored to be a part of this.

Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZTWSJFuuAY

Photo by Mulography - Anthony Mulcahy

06/03/2022

Love Poems a poetics lab with Brigid Yuknavitch Who and what do we love? What makes us turn to poetry to witness love? Across cultures love poetry has been at the center of poetic traditions. There are love poems of desire and loss, love poems to what is divine, love poems to particular perso

06/02/2022

The new books you should read in June 2022.

05/24/2022

oh thank you beloved Booklist/Leah von Essen for the starred review, and for the kind and keen words :: “Kinky, q***r, and razor sharp… a stunning novel about the future we might be able to create if we listen to voices we’ve previously ignored…a strange, emotional story about the rush of freedom, about welcoming in the world around us from earthworms to fungi, and about being willing to start again.” – Booklist, STARRED REVIEW Riverhead Books

05/19/2022