SEND POEMS!
To read one of your own unpublished short poems over the phone or recommend a book of poems, call (304) 348-5184 and wait for the voicemail to kick in, leave your name and number for verification and then read away. Your audio may appear on MountainWord. I’m looking for work of under 20 or so well-written lines. Nothing sentimental or old-fashioned. Prose poems of exceptional quality are eligible too. The tone can run the gamut from humorous to serious. You might do as Sue Ellen Anderson did and recite a short poem or two by one of your favorite poets, Stephen Crane in this case (thanks, Sue Ellen!):
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Poet Wendell Berry once wrote about coming into “the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.” I thought of the “forethought of grief” phrase when I listened to Bill Robinson, who called in a poem titled “To My Dying Cat”:
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