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His collections of poetry include The Great Wave (2009) and The Incentive of the Maggot (2005), chosen by poet Robert Pinsky for the Bakeless Poetry Prize and winner of the Larry Levis Reading Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University.
on Phantom Pain Wings, poems by Kim Hyesoon. reviewed by David Woo. “Written after the death of Kim’s actual father, followed ‘three months and ten days later’ by her mother, Phantom Pain Wings delineates a terminal world where existence continues despite the absence of everything.”. Interview | May 7, 2024.
May 7, 2024 · a poem by Alan Felsenthal. “But / now I recall the sound a gray bird // made to wake me from a crazed dream. / Like a scratch awl with its fluted wooden // handle chipping bark off an oak tree.”. Poetry | May 7, 2024.
May 7, 2024 · “With linguistic precision and hard-earned objectivity, the poems in Ron Slate’s The Great Wave are, paradoxically, fabular and firmly situated in worldly reality. Slate’s inheritance is the history of catastrophes and the premonition of desolations.
Ron Slate is the editor and publisher of On The Seawall: A Community Gallery of New Writing and Commentary at www.ronslate.com. His poetry collections are The Incentive of the Maggot and The Great Wave.
Our featured poems this week, "To the One Who Hears Me," and "Cocoanut Grove," demonstrate Slate's remarkable talent for blending past with present and telling stories in a way that blurs the line between the interior self and outside world.
A necessary collision at the pilings. tells everyone it’s over. Copyright © 2016 by Ron Slate. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on August 23, 2016, by the Academy of American Poets. Night Crossing - Back and forth is a way to move.
