“Biology all makes sense if you live long enough.”
By Anna Daniels
Kyle Dargan
Bill Moyers has long been a champion of poetry. Last year he ran a memorable poetry series on Moyers and Company. It was so memorable that a number of readers sent me the link as a source for poems this month. Kyle Dargan is a young professor of writing and literature at American University. He has three award winning books of poetry under his belt and he has a beautiful reading voice. On Moyers and Company he read Note to the Addict that Robbed Us on a Landscaping Job. It’s a terrific poem.
I chose Dargan’s poem Quagmire because it echoes some of the lyricism found in Pablo Neruda’s poem Enigmas. The direction and resolution of Quagmire are quite different however.
Anna Daniels
I left a moribund Western Pennsylvania mill town the year that Richard M. Nixon was not impeached for crimes against the American people, and set off in search of truth, beauty, justice and a beat I could dance to. Here I am.
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