Monthly Roundup VI: The Poets Enter
Lions and Rhymers and Swans, O My
Welcome to the monthly roundup for February, March, and just a teensy bit of April, 2024 (OK, this edition is not exactly monthly) at Silver Door, where perusal-worthy articles and poetry related happenings from Substack and beyond are highlighted alongside recent SD news and posts.
Since the last roundup we’ve published two poems by two poets, Monika Cooper and Mary Angela Douglas, both of which you will find below and both of which I urge you to read, reread, transcribe in your notebook, inscribe in your hearts. They are beautiful.
Silver Door has been a little triumph for me personally on a more than one level, but most of all in allowing me to provide a small platform for work that I deem to be of the utmost importance, and for the unexpected friends of Poetry with a capital P who have popped up to put their shoulder to the wheel of Beauty making.
Around The Web
My online reading time has been rather hampered by poor internet connection at my new house.
I HAVE NOTHING FOR YOU HERE.
Silver Door Posts
One of Silver Door’s most read posts by guest author/poet
which takes a deep dive into a lesser known but great Frost poem, and draws out important implications.The Death of Great-God Frost
This essay was written by Nik Hoffmann. We recommend you follow his work at Across The Spheres.
Our first paid post, which considers providence as well as talks some inside baseball.
The Providential Reader
Miraculously the right poem, book, film, creation, can seem to find us. In these hyperlinks, I’ve previously recounted my own experience of unwrapping The Complete Works of William Blake one fateful Christmas morning as a young teen, an encounter that struck me with the force of a religious
Another of Silver Door’s most read posts by J.Z. Who knew poeple wanted to know this?
Why do we write poems?
As soon as we write something, we are indelibly responsible to the whole community of lexical artifacts. As Nik Hoffman has formulated it, the poet is the shepherd of language. This is not a Romantical inflation of the office, but merely a consequence of the facticity of what it means to write something. We cannot be gnostical: we speak and write the wa…
Nik returns again as a guest with a provocative piece of polemic inspired by “The Providential Reader”:
A Rhymer's Lament
In Nathan’s piece, The Providential Reader, he asks “What exactly do we want to pass on to our sons and daughters?” A venerable and continually pertinent question. The answer, as always, is to pass on The Permanent Things. Which is very much Nathan’s point. “Tweeted quatrains” and “Insta poets” are ephemeral and concern themselves with the ephe…
Wherein I consider standing:
Sadly, we had to go there:
Post-Human Poetry?
Move over, Post-Modernism. Post-Humanism is here. In fact, it’s been around for some time. During my undergraduate studies, between 2015-2019, I took more than a few courses that flirted with post-human ideas as well as a couple that addressed them directly.
Poems on Silver Door
Written by Monika Cooper:
Written by Mary Angela Douglas:
Video of the Month(ish)
The invaluable work of Dr. Scott Masson takes on Post-Humanism: