the subterranean

A GASOLINE ODE by Hank Kalet   “Almost overnight, the quiet farming region changed in much the same manner as the gold rush towns of the Wild West. The flats in the narrow valley of Oil Cr...

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2011/05/gasoline-ode.html

Here is a revision of a first villanelle, the French form that had been used primarily for bawdy lyrics but that had been made famous as a more solemn poetic structure by Dylan Thomas and Elizabe...

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2010/07/villanelle-for-minnie-imber-by-hank.html

This is my first attempt at a villanelle. I'm not sure what I think of it. VILLANELLE by Hank Kalet Her mind untroubled by a lack of clarity, memory decayed, sputtering in a buzz like radi...

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2010/05/first-try-at-villanelle.html

This is a new poem, mostly finished, I think, but I am open to suggestions -- including for a better title. DOGS IN THE RAIN “Be wet with a decent happiness.” -- Robert Creeley Rain poo...

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2010/04/dogs-in-rain-by-hank-kalet.html

BARE TREE By Hank Kalet like an old woman's boney fingers the tree's bare branches stretch out in gnarled twists swollen and knotty with time

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2010/03/bare-tree-poem-by-hank-kalet.html

Three readings, the first featuring yours truly, the other two are part of the Sundary reading series in South Brunswick: WEDNESDAY, FEB. 17: Somerset Poetry Group Poetry reading featuring New ...

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2010/02/three-readings.html

with the dining room table covered in bills and all the proofs that responsibility requires, the packing slips and insurance cards, catalogues and doctor's notes, I think sometimes of when I was...

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2009/11/dogs-life-by-hank-kalet.html

cesantia es humillacion on a blue wall in Chile translated on the front page of The New York Times as unemployment is humiliation, the graffito like a chemical equation, the two sides in balance,...

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2009/11/blue-wall-in-chile-by-hank-kalet.html

STILL LIFE: GRAVEYARD ON WOODBRIDGE AVENUE 1. Weather-beaten flags mark graves of veterans, red stripes fading to white, to memory 2. weeds sprout like white hairs from old-man’s half-shaven...

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2009/11/poem-still-life-graveyard-on-woodbridge.html

NOTES ON “EN LA CASA DE LA CASA” On a painting by Kevin Patrick Kelly (seen hanging in Small World Coffee, Princeton, Sept. 18) Curling of pigment, brush strokes that sweep the sweating hue...

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2009/11/poem-notes-on-en-la-casa-de-la-casa.html

This week's poetry podcast is of an older baseball poem -- "Sonnet for Bob Gibson " -- that appeared in the Elysian Fields Quarterly in 2002.

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2009/04/tuesday-poetry-podcast-sonnet-for-bob.html

The readings today at the South Brunswick Libryar -- at the series I organize for the township Arts Commission -- were quite interesting. Above is Sander Zulauf, the editor of the Journal of New ...

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2009/04/nice-sunday-for-poetry.html

This week's poetry podcast is of a new poem -- "Little League Poem " -- that has been accepted by the Edison Literary Review for an upcoming (2010) issue.

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2009/04/tuesday-poetry-podcast-little-league.html

I took the week of from the podcast last week -- and then almost forgot this week's reading. Here it is: a poem called "Cleavings ."

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2009/04/tuesday-poetry-podcast-cleavings.html

Check out this week's Tuesday Poetry Podcast here .

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2009/03/tuesday-poetry-podcast-cost.html

Today's podcast is a poem I wrote a while back that is unlike most of my work. It is called "The Risen Bursting Flower is an Explosion of Color."

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2009/03/tuesday-poetry-podcast-risen-bursting.html

Today's poetry podcast is of a poem I wrote in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, focusing on the beginnings of our now endless-seeming war in Afghanistan.

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2009/03/tuesday-poetry-podcast-aftermath.html

The Poetry Foundation offers a number of intersting podcasts , including two that I've become great fans of: Essential American Poets offers a selection of poets -- chosen by then-U.S. Poet La...

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2009/03/great-poets-read.html

A press release from the South Brunswick Arts Commission: > R.G. Rader, an award-winning poet and playwright, and Joan Cusack > Handler -- essayist, creative writer and psycholo...

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2009/03/poets-rg-rader-and-joan-cusack-handler.html

Today's podcast is a poem I wrote after reading a story in the North Jersey Herald. You can get it here or on iTunes . Consider subscribing to the free podcast through iTunes .

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2009/03/tuesday-poetry-podcast-poem-for-mary.html

LIQUIDITY by Hank Kalet We see them standing on highway's soft shoulder in parkas, ski hats, cold rain like tears soaking to their weary bones, an economy in signs, the placards that pop up at t...

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2009/02/liquidity-by-hank-kalet.html

Today's podcast features my poem "Joyride (for Bob Nutter) ," about a trip Bob and I took more than 26 years ago after a night drinking tequila (etc.).

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2009/02/tuesday-poetry-podcast-joyride-for-bob.html

I want to start the week with something from a dead white guy, a visionary who has influenced numerous poets over the last 200-plus years. THE SICK ROSE O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm...

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2009/02/sick-rose-william-blake.html

This is part of a larger group of poems called Sonnets of the Everyday: SONNET OF THE EVERYDAY (Hopper’s "Nighthawks") BY HANK KALET Staring into the faces – what is that blank stare, crac...

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2009/02/sonnet-of-everyday-hoppers-nighthawks.html

I kicked off a new podcast two weeks ago called Hank Kalet's Tuesday Poetry Podcast. Check it out by clicking here or going to iTunes. To submit audio to this podcast, please send mp3 files he...

http://kaletpoems.blogspot.com/2009/02/poems-on-podcast.html