Able Muse - nola garrett https://www.ablemuse.com/taxonomy/term/150/150? en The Dynamite Maker's Mistress https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/books/dynamite-makers-mistress? <!--paging_filter--> https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/books/dynamite-makers-mistress?#comments Books nola garrett poems poetry book the dynamite maker&#039;s mistress v6 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:41:49 +0000 Administrator 207 at https://www.ablemuse.com Hillsborough Avenue https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/poetry/nola-garrett/hillsborough-avenue? <h2><p>Hillsborough Avenue</p></h2> <ul><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>—After Paul Verlaine</em></p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/poetry/nola-garrett/hillsborough-avenue?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/poetry/nola-garrett/hillsborough-avenue?#comments Poetry hillsborough avenue nola garrett poems society traffic v6 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:07:52 +0000 Administrator 118 at https://www.ablemuse.com Forty Years Later https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/poetry/nola-garrett/forty-years-later? <h2><p>Forty Years Later</p></h2> <p>Why bother to root for my brother Joel?<br> Surely, your quarterback’s body is earth’s, Joel.</p> <p>You knew how to sell elaborate jokes—<br> seemingly, you stand at my door grinning, Joel.</p> <p>Named for the prophet of locusts and kairos,<br> has the Lord dealt wondrously with you, Joel?</p> <p>Our mother was a saver of used things<br> that someday would be useful; she wept, Joel.</p> <p>I could not have borne following your hearse<br> through rain. You are buried in sunlight, Joel.</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/poetry/nola-garrett/forty-years-later?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/poetry/nola-garrett/forty-years-later?#comments Poetry death family forty years later loss nola garrett poems v6 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:12:13 +0000 Administrator 117 at https://www.ablemuse.com Nola Garrett https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/bio/nola-garrett? <p>Nola Garrett is <EM>Faculity Emeritus</EM> of Edinboro University of PA and presently lives in Palm Harbor, FL.  Her poems, translations, and essays have appeared in <EM>Arts Letters, Christian Century, FIELD, Georgia Review, Poetry Northwest, </EM>and<EM> Tampa Review.  </EM>Her chapbook, <EM>The Pastor's Wife Considers Pinball</EM>, won the 1998 American Poets' Prize.  Forthcoming from David Robert Books, February 2009, is <EM>The Dynamite Maker's Mistress: Variations on the Sestina Form.</EM></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/bio/nola-garrett?#comments Bios bio nola garrett poems v6 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:05:21 +0000 Administrator 116 at https://www.ablemuse.com The Pastor's Wife Considers Pinball https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/books/nola-garrett/pastors-wife-considers-pinball? <!--paging_filter--> https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/books/nola-garrett/pastors-wife-considers-pinball?#comments Books nola garrett poems poetry book the pastor&#039;s wife considers pinball v6 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:37:45 +0000 Administrator 114 at https://www.ablemuse.com