Henry Gould

Yeah but you could tell those two guys they met by the river were def from St. Paul

Walcott Junction (Elk Mountain),
3/8/2026, 7:06:49 PM

rob mclennan : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Nada Gordon Nada Gordon : Backwards Bio: I live in Brooklyn and work too hard and too much, teaching courses like “Tyranny and the Absurd” and “The...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Nada Gordon, reading (and lecturing) in Ottawa later this month as part of VERSeFest / @nadagordon.bsky.social @subpresspoetry.bsky.social ;
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/03/rob-...

Cees Nooteboom : All Souls' Day (book cover)

Cees Nooteboom

Good if you can find it. Thank you, Hennepin Cty Library. The late Cees Nooteboom, as I learned from this NYT obit, is a pleasure to read.

Poem text

book cover: Continental Shelf

Being a Minneapolis native, & living here now, offers a certain perspective on the atmosphere of trouble & foreboding that keeps looming closer. Poems can sometimes remind one of other things, in helpful ways. Hope.

Mississippi River from E River Rd, Mpls

silver Mississippi, misty day

The Meadow Where Time Stands Still by Osip Mandelshtam | 9781805331674 | Pushkin Press Osip Mandelshtam, arguably the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century, died in a Stalinist prison camp at the age of forty-seven. It was not his first a

in those meadows where time does not pass pushkinpress.com/book/the-mea...

I notice that this poem, which I posted here last week, reflects a little bit on that passage from “Pushkin & Scriabin” which I referred to here more recently.

picture of Weleetka, Oklahoma

picture of Weleetka, Oklahoma

Weleetka, Oklahoma
Pop: 954

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weleetka,_Oklahoma

Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80256540

Here's a link to a translation the Mandelstam poem mentioned previously : hgpoetics.blogspot.com/2010/07/mand...

This is a fascinating article, and also a fine essay in American history.

Trump Says He Is the ‘Least Racist’ President. But His Term Echoes a Grim Past.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...

Osip Mandelstam is truly a kind of Jubilee singer. His poetry expresses rhapsody. See his poem written in exile in Voronezh, triggered by listening to a recording of Marian Anderson singing, on Moscow radio, circa 1937.

They're quite expensive, I know. They are also sturdy, have a lot of singing pages to them. All proceeds directly support Dos Madres, a longtime poetry publisher based in Ohio.

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These well-made books of mine are still available direct from the publisher, Dos Madres Press. Cover designs by Elizabeth Murphy.
www.dosmadres.com?s=Henry+Goul...

Henry Gould - Books and Publications Spotlight | Lulu Henry Gould lives in Minneapolis, MN. He has been writing poetry since the 1960s, in many forms, with an emphasis on long poems and sequences. In the

The closing chapbook of SHIELD OF MNEMOSYNE is now available (titled MIRROR LAKE). Available here, along with 8 previous chapbooks : www.lulu.com/spotlight/he...

We may thirst for knowledge, yet we love the unknown.

In Ukraine, a Community of ‘Simple Believers’ Shuns the Modern World

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/w...

(That's our world today, in a grain of salt.)

Mandelstam : excerpt from Pushkin & Scriabin"

Mandelstam : excerpt from "Pushkin & Scriabin"

Book cover, Osip Mandelstam : Complete Critical Prose

As I was finishing up the lengthy opus that is SHIELD OF MNEMOSYNE, the thought of this passage from an early, wild, unfinished essay by Mandelstam ("Pushkin & Scriabin") came to mind. I think OM's sublime leaps, in poems & prose, are often suffused with great prophetic (& aesthetic) light.

Scene at Inkwell Bks, Mpls

Landing some booklover donations here, at Inkwell Books (fundraiser for Immigrant Law Ctr & Women's Foundation rapid response unit). Poetry in motion

Sent completed manuscript of SHIELD OF MNEMOSYNE to publisher (Contubernales) today. 1st line, of 1st poem : "6 below in Minneapolis". Symbol for the deepening political chill. Poem was written in January, 2025.

Opinion | Mental health care can't replace the gun bills we don't pass "The Republican proposals — crisis hotlines, treatment beds, mobile crisis units," Edward F. Kouneski writes, "Every one of them responds to a problem that has already emerged."

An illuminating essay : www.startribune.com/mn-legislati...

Mirror Lake MIRROR LAKE is the 12th and concluding chapter of a long poem titled SHIELD OF MNEMOSYNE.

12th and final chapter of my long poem, SHIELD OF MNEMOSYNE, is now available here : www.lulu.com/shop/henry-g...

la vida es sueño

— Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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I finished the long poem SHIELD OF MNEMOSYNE today. 12 chapters, which became 12 chapbooks (1st 3 amalgamated into PARMENIDES IN MINNEAPOLIS (Contubernales Bks). I started it on May 11, 2024 : Minnesota Statehood Day (also my daughter Phoebe's birthday).

ENTEN LNETE LENET ETELN RELLE

Magic square Kierkegaard poem. From Lot 29. Calico Doorknob by @michaelcisco.bsky.social in The Dagon Collection, Ed. Nate Pedersen.

#vispo #concretePoetry

Souhan: U.S. Olympic men's hockey team allowed itself to be used by Donald Trump The U.S. Olympic men's hockey team allowed itself to be used by President Donald Trump, rather than standing up for the women's team.

Right on, Jim Souhan :

www.startribune.com/olympic-mens...

The modern kings will throttle you to greet the piping voice of artificial birds Here’s a new Claude McKay poem song setting, “To a Poet,”  completed as part of my concentration on his poetry this February. Somewhat of a “deep cut” in McKay’s poetry, but as sometimes happens wh…

The striking thing about playing & editing a vocalist virtual instrument—after the uncanny valley unease it surely produces—is being in slow, deliberate control of that vocal expression, which this untrained human singer never has been. frankhudson.org/2026/02/26/t...