George Witte's Blog, page 3

beautiful poem by Rebecca Aronson

From Poetry Daily: A moving, heartbreaking, beautiful poem about a father's last days:

https://poems.com/poem/dear-gravity/?...

Rebecca Aronson

BBC documentary on Ray Hinton and The Sun Does Shine

The Death Row Book Club:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct...


Very powerful and inspiring documentary about race, incarceration, policing, and finding hope in the darkest of times.


The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

Ellen Bryant Voigt sonnets

Gorgeous, moving, clear-eyed, and prescient sonnets about the 1919 flu pandemic by Ellen Bryant Voigt, one of our finest poets. I can imagine someone reading these poems and this book 100 years from now, with the same eyes that we with read today: in fear and in hope and in the wonderment with which we behold, if not quite understand, forces much greater than what we imagine ourselves to be.

https://poems.com/poem/from-kyrie/?ut...

Kyrie: Poems

Terrific poem by Marcus Wicker in Poetry

As posted in Poetry Daily: this is a brilliant poem that lures you in with “bro” lingo, the patter and wink wink nudge nudge conspiratorial humor that makes you feel part of something, and then turns your sly assent and complicity against you. Read and re-read:

https://poems.com/poem/reparations-re...

Marcus Wicker

Great advice on writing from Taylor Brown

Well worth watching by anyone who is working on a first book:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_fN2...

Pride of Eden

Dawn Davies poem "Mailing a Letter" on Poetry Daily

A beautifully-developed list poem that becomes an intimate narrative, with a devastating last line:

https://poems.com/poem/mailing-a-lett...

new poem in The Coachella Review

My poem "The Harrower" is published in the new issue of The Coachella Review, just released:

http://thecoachellareview.com/wordpress/

It's a strong and varied issue of poems, fiction, drama, interviews, and essays; proud to be in such good company!

interview about civil liberties with David Kirby on "Full Measure"

Terrific interview with David Kirby about the erosion of civil liberties and his book When They Come for You, by Sharyl Attkisson on her program "Full Measure":

http://fullmeasure.news/news/politics...

When They Come for You: How Police and Government Are Trampling Our Liberties - And How to Take Them Back

Sasha West poem on Poetry Daily

Powerful poem, well worth reading aloud:

https://poems.com/poem/how-to-abandon...

Sasha West

launch of Tough Poets Press

Great news for booklovers: Tough Poets Press is rediscovering books long out of print that deserve a new audience.

Delighted to see that Donald Newlove's Sweet Adversity is one of their first publications. Donald Newlove is an important and singular writer whose novels need to be republished; his memoir "Those Drinking Days" is one of the best books about addiction and alcohol that I've ever read.

Read Sweet Adversity and support this new press, as well as turn yourself on to Don Newlove:

Sweet Adversity