Category Archives: Poetry

So You Think You Know the Romantic Poets? Test Yourself.

Posted on June 25, 2017 by Grace Curtis

Can you tell the major Romantic poets apart based on their writing? Just for fun, see if you can match the lines of poetry with the poet who wrote them on the basis of style. Click on the link below for … Continue reading →

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A Riff on Elizabeth Bishop’s poem, “One Art”

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Grace Curtis

In late December, a string of rejections coupled with the endless gray days of the Midwestern sky, caused me to stop writing altogether during January and most of February. I felt uninspired, and even though I can usually pull myself … Continue reading →

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Listen to a poem on WVXU, Cincinnati

Posted on December 15, 2014 by Grace Curtis

On November 20, 2014, I recorded a few poems and an interview for WVXU, Cincinnati, Ohio.  You can check out one of the poems here.

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Summer Poetry Series–Dos Madres Press & BonBonerie, Cincinnati, Ohio

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Grace Curtis
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Teaching Poetry in an English Workshop–Sakhnin, Israel, Day Four

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Grace Curtis

The seventh graders were on a field trip today so we doubled up our classrooms and team taught. Perry Brokow, a retired teacher from Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and I joined together to teach today. Perry is teaching drama and speech … Continue reading →

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Teaching Poetry in Summer Camp & How to Make a Chapbook

Posted on May 11, 2014 by Grace Curtis

In less than a month, I will travel with six other individuals to a small town in northern Israel called Deir Al Asad to teach for two weeks in a summer camp for 60 junior high school aged children. Deir … Continue reading →

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A Poetry Reading for Dos Madres Press

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Grace Curtis
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Reveling in poet, Carl Adamshick’s poems

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Grace Curtis

I’ve just reread, again, Carl Adamshick‘s debut collection, Curses and Wishes (Louisiana State University Press). I can’t get enough of his surprising, elegant, streamlined poems. Listen to Carl read his poems –

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To the Christmas Tree

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Grace Curtis

  Bathed in the act of forgetting still upright light endowed upright on crutches drinking only what I give it giving all that it can a few winks now and then ball-catcher. What other relic withstands this kind of stand-up … Continue reading →

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A Wellspring of Poetry Happenings

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Grace Curtis

Ohio Poetry Association Anthology Launch Party On April 16, at Bexley Library in Bexley, on the eastern edge of Columbus, the Ohio Poetry Association held the launch party and reading for its first anthology, Everything Stops and Listens, edited by … Continue reading →

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