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Photo: Poets’ minds at work

September 29, 2017 by Editor 1 Comment

Filed Under: Features, Front Page, News, Poetry, The Arts Tagged With: Benicia, Benicia Public Library, Don Peery, Johanna Ely, Lois Requist, poet laureate, poetry, Ronna Leon

Poetry Corner: “For Joel Fallon” by Ronna Leon

August 19, 2016 by Editor Leave a Comment

You called them “dead Mother poems” and scorned their cloying sentiment, easy forgiveness. Your poem about your Mother named her Kali. You hungered for life – anger, difficulty, competition, sex. You insisted that wringing a tear from a stone was superior to opening well oiled floodgates. Now you are dead and my tears come unbidden […]

Filed Under: Features, Poetry, The Arts Tagged With: Benicia poet laureate, Friday Poetry Corner, Joel Fallon, poetry, Ronna Leon

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