RYAN NOWLIN

Notes from an Open Channel Sonnet and Sonnet 8 1/2                                  Published on the Chicago Review Online Edition Fall...

Sonnet and Sonnet 8 1/2 Published on the Chicago Review Online Edition I owe the thematic material at the outset of this sonnet to the...

Notes from an Open Channel Sonnet and Sonnet 8 1/2 — I owe the thematic material at the outset of this sonnet to Joan Accella’s well...

Some Notes on Versification ---Shakespeare’s sonnet 18 is deservedly the most famous of all the sonnets, sometimes so much so that one...

The Cathedral 1 In Central America’s leafy parenthesis some sliver of light appears from that magnificent jungle edifice, the famous...

Notes from an Open Channel I. The State of Being Lost I could have stayed in Central America, happily ensconced within its leafy...

Notes from an Open Channel 1 These are the gauchos roaming the pampas and those are the Gauleiters gliding through a series of Zoom...

Notes from an Open Channel 1 These are the gauchos roaming the pampas and those are the Gauleiters gliding through a series of Zoom...

A Darkening of Responsibility Pessoa adopted heteronyms tighter than ceilings, yet the spiders had the moldings under cultivation, like...

A Darkening of Difficult Achievements*** Edwin Denby nearly revised himself out of existence; His notes reveal a mind redacting the...

--- Few figures in the Supreme Court have inspired the respect, admiration and impact as Ruth Bader Ginsburg who passed away yesterday...

Notes from an Open Channel Never ending note taking and a mocking silence caught something of the frequency in the room. Maybe it’s best...

Time with the Season Time with the season; only she doth carry June in her eyes, in her heart January. ---The Spring, Thomas Carew Three...

Time with the Season Time with the season: only she doth carry June in her eyes, in heart January. ---The Spring, Thomas Carew 1 Three...

Notes from an Open Channel 1 When visiting the 2012 summer writing program at Naropa University’s “Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied...

8 In old Westerns when you saw a train at nine a.m. it was still leaving at noon, growing fainter as the day wore on as if it had been...

Time with the Season Time with the season: only she doth carry June in her eyes, in heart January. ---The Spring, Thomas Carew 1 Through...

Word on the Street I consider Ricky to be the orchestrator of cheap alliances, screwed up optics and bright Christmas trees of blood...

5 “poetry is a holiday of the mind...The poet’s brain is a sea bottom on which many hulls repose....” ---Valery The naive conceit, a deer...

3 In the white sterility of the frozen food empire I lost my mind. What remained was sold to a grocery outfit. White bear of the poles,...