Spotlight Poet: McDonald Dixon
“Like water, Art must find its level. It cannot be all things to all men.” In the week of his 70th birthday, McDonald Dixon talks to The Missing Slate’s Jamie Osborn.
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A Thousand Miles
“that Aymara man there/ who stowed his bundle in our hold/ & that small boy/ with a shoe box,/ the little we can carry…” Weekend Poem, by Lorraine Caputo.
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Rosso’s Lament
“Back in the pale end of winter/ Rosso looked at me as if he couldn’t quite remember/ who I was…” Weekend poem, by Rowland Bagnall.
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Harry James
“Everything is stilled, when dancers/ stop and listen to the liquid gold…” Weekend poem, by Milton P. Ehrlich.
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‘The Mirror’ (Зеркало, 1975)
“The scenes plunge into each other, cut/ by cut: the surge of the forest into/ the goose step of the soldiers…” Poem of the Week (September 2), by Ilma Rakusa. Translated from German by Paul-Henri Campbell.
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Clock-Watching
“It’s Friday, and I want to hold/ the day down by its neck to keep it still…” Weekend poem, by Sarah Fletcher.
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The making of newcomers
“Did woodpeckers,/ you wonder in your story,/ invent morse code? ” Poem of the Week (August 26), by Hubert Moore.
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Mary’s Bar
“The thirsty/ will pay her ten bucks for a Smirnoff,//five for a lukewarm Corona. The faint/ stagger out to the sunlight…” Weekend poem, by Laurie Barton.
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Happiness
“I truly/ Like this age of ergonomic skies, skies extending/ over pleasant mountain ranges + ordered lakes…” Poem of the Week (August 19), by Dominic Hale.
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The Old Have Many Fears (after Su Tung Po)
“I hear a clock ticking/ like a toothache…” Weekend poem, by George Freek.
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