The David M. Katz Poetry Blog

The Halls of Sadness Resonate: Kim Bridgford

June 28, 2020 by DAVID M KATZ

This innovative villanelle is strong and quietly defiant, just like Kim Bridgford. Kim, a huge-souled person and a great nurturer of poetry, died today. Her memory and her work are now a continual blessing.

Ron Padgett's Cool Sensibility

June 23, 2020 by DAVID M KATZ in RON PADGETT, NEW YORK SCHOOL POETRY, Wallace Stevens

Ron Padgett’s deeply pleasing, light-as-air poetic sensibility leaks out over, around, and through his seemingly simple, eminently accessible lines. And yes, his poems are easy as hell to read.