By — Tom LeGro Tom LeGro Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/weekly-poem-frogs Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Weekly Poem: ‘Frogs’ Arts Jan 28, 2013 3:24 PM EDT By Gerald Stern The part that we avoided was not the heart but what we called the pouch, for it still swelled or seemed to and there was plenty of horror cutting into what made the music or at least the agency you might call it, and more than one of us retched and as you know, that can become contagious–think of a roomful of pouches exploding think of the music on a summer night with no one conducting and think of how warm it might be and how love songs may have gotten started there. Gerald Stern is the author of several collections of poetry and is the winner of numerous awards, including the National Book Award for “This Time: New and Selected Poems” (1998). He was recently given the 2012 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, awarded for the most distinguished book of poetry published in the preceding two years. Later this week, we’ll post an interview of Stern by Jeffrey Brown. By — Tom LeGro Tom LeGro
By Gerald Stern The part that we avoided was not the heart but what we called the pouch, for it still swelled or seemed to and there was plenty of horror cutting into what made the music or at least the agency you might call it, and more than one of us retched and as you know, that can become contagious–think of a roomful of pouches exploding think of the music on a summer night with no one conducting and think of how warm it might be and how love songs may have gotten started there. Gerald Stern is the author of several collections of poetry and is the winner of numerous awards, including the National Book Award for “This Time: New and Selected Poems” (1998). He was recently given the 2012 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, awarded for the most distinguished book of poetry published in the preceding two years. Later this week, we’ll post an interview of Stern by Jeffrey Brown.