English Reading Circle on Poetry
ENGLISH READING CIRCLE ON POETRY – POEM OF THE MONTH ANALYSIS: “EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS CAN BE CALLED AGING” BY CARL ADAMSHICK
This month we continue our contemplation of the world and our place in it with Carl Adamshick’s “Everything That Happens Can Be Called Aging” (2014). Adamshick’s poem opens with a bold pronouncement, an assertion from the speaker that he has “more love than ever.” And yet, the speaker goes on to talk about what he
ENGLISH READING CIRCLE ON POETRY – POEM OF THE MONTH ANALYSIS: “IN THE BLIZZARD” BY MARK CONWAY
This month, we’re very pleased to welcome Mark Conway to our poetry session, where he will be sharing his new poem “In the Blizzard” (the text of the poem appears at the bottom of this message). Last month we contemplated matters of life and death with Nick Flynn’s “If This Is Your Final Destination.” Flynn’s
ENGLISH READING CIRCLE ON POETRY AND PROSE POETRY – POEM OF THE MONTH ANALYSIS: “IF THIS IS YOUR FINAL DESTINATION” BY NICK FLYNN
This month’s poem, “If This is Your Final Destination” (2015), by Nick Flynn, mixes the mundane with the metaphysical, as the speaker meditates on the large, almost unanswerable questions of existence—what happens to us when we die?—and tries to string together a coherent narrative out of his past, present, and future. These different epochs of
ENGLISH READING CIRCLE ON POETRY AND PROSE POETRY – POEM OF THE MONTH ANALYSIS: “ONE TODAY” BY RICHARD BLANCO
The English Reading Circle on Poetry has returned for 2016-2017, and we’ve got a great selection of poems for the upcoming year! We’re going to be reading poems by contemporary American poets associated with the Unamuno Author Series taking place here in Madrid. With a nice sense of continuity, our first poem of the year,