Poetry Thursday had a really great prompt this week, but I don’t have the time or energy it deserves just now. I did do my usual snapshot poem yesterday, and I’m going to send you to a current, ongoing conversation at The Well with poet and novelist Mary Mackey:

Mary Mackey is the author of four previous collections of poetry and eleven novels. Some of her works have been published by small literary presses; some have made The New York Times bestseller list. The poems in her new collection, "Breaking the Fever" (Marsh Hawk Press; www.marshhawkpress.org) have been praised by poets Wendell Berry, Jane Hirshfield, Dennis Nurkse, Marge Piercy, and Al Young for their beauty, precision, originality, and extraordinary range. Sometimes lyrical and mystical, sometimes autobiographical, sometimes fierce, and at times even shocking, Mackey’s crisp-edged perceptions are, as Hirshfield has noted: "set down with a sensuous, compassionate, utterly unflinching eye."

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to the Inkwell.vue hosts. This is a great discussion so far, which is the standard at The Well. If, after hanging out there a bit, you would like to explore The Well further, drop me a note.

[Today – including the middle of last night: 2274 words. So far: 39,506 words.]