Posts Tagged ‘Carol Ann Davis’
Poetry Friday: “To Jenya on First Noticing the Dog’s Bowl of My Imagination”
April 28, 2017
I was first drawn to this poem by Carol Ann Davis because of its long and curious title. Who is Jenya? How does imagination correspond to a dog’s bowl? The peculiarity of these details led me into a surprising poem of weighty questions and deep meditation. Davis asks, “My emptiness / loves yours. Can you…
Read MorePoetry Friday: “Grief Daybook: A Love Supreme”
March 10, 2017
It’s fairly common for a poem to be inspired by (or be in conversation with) a famous painting. Less often, though, do we find poems engaging with a musical work. Yet that’s just what happens in Carol Davis’s poem “Grief Daybook: A Love Supreme.” Fans of the brilliant jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane will…
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