Poets Online for the New Year

[Poets Online]

Here's your monthly reminder that new poems from the "rereading and rewriting" prompt are now online, and our January prompt awaits you with two model poems by Renée Ashley.

Today (January 6) is the Feast of the Epiphany which marks the day when the three Magi are supposed to have visited the newborn Jesus bearing gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. But for literary types, this day might recall James Joyce’s short story “The Dead” and another kind of epiphany. Joyce sets the story at a party for the Feast of the Epiphany and the story gave us a secular meaning of “epiphany.” He used it to mean: the “revelation of the whatness of a thing” or the moment when “the soul of the commonest object […] seems to us radiant.”  

We hope your year will be filled with poetry and epiphanies.