Category Archives: metaphysics

My “Positively Poetry Reading Series” performance for the Hoboken Public Library’s National Library Week!

Animals, Comedy, Death, doubt, Existence, Fantasy, Father, Food, Future, Happiness, Hell, Home, Humor, Inspiration, Japan, Life, Love, Marriage, Metaphor, metaphysics, Mourning, Nature, New York City, Night, Parenthood, philosophy, Poetry, Poets, Reality, Reincarnation, Science, Sun, Thoughts, Tragedy, Travel, Trees, Winter, World, Writing

Yes, here are those promised cows, daffodils, and the absence of Holocaust poems:

You can almost smell that I-78 highway extension through the thin gloss of YouTube.

And here’s a friendly guide to jump straight to your favorite poems:

00:00 Introduction

01:02 The origin of life

02:28 A small dot appears.  A genesis.  A thing out of nothing

05:45 Thanks a lot, Shakespeare, for the Starling

07.46 Departing from Sengen Jinja

10:00 Naming Things

11:46 Why My Kid Sobs at the Ice Cream Parlor

14:18 Not a Holocaust Poem

15:53 Cows & Daffodils

17:58 Lakawa a Stat on

20:05 A Single Swallow Doesn’t Signal Spring

20:39 Animal House

22:09 A poem written in my past life as a 15th century Georgian monk

23:32 From Out of the Darkness

26:47 Beacons of Light

28:02 Post 11

29:17 Epilogue

“Exit the Town Drunk”, finalist for The New Guard’s Knightville Poetry Contest

Comedy, Death, Existence, Humor, Life, Metaphor, metaphysics, philosophy, Poetry, Poets, Thoughts, Writing

Many thanks to Shanna McNair and Scott Wolven for selecting my poem “Exit the Town Drunk” as a finalist in The New Guard Knightville Poetry Contest 🙂 And special congratulations to the winner, Amy Tibbetts, for her poem “Smooth Rock Tripe”. You can read Amy’s poem and mine in the print edition of Volume X , which will be published early next year; here’s a link to the contest announcements page and information on how to pre-order Volume X:

https://www.newguardreview.com/tng-contests

“Combustible”, appearing online at “The Adriatic”

Fantasy, Life, Metaphor, metaphysics, philosophy, Poetry, Poets, Science, Thoughts, Writing

Check out my poem “Combustible” in the newest issue of The Adriatic, a wonderful poetry quarterly established last year in Great Britain. The following link will take you to Issue 3, themed “Mind & Body”:

https://www.theadriaticmag.co/copy-of-issue-two-home

And thank you again to The Adriatic‘s fantastic team of editors 🙂

“Thanks a Lot, Shakespeare, for the Starling” (which first appeared in “America”) wins the Telluride Institute’s 2020 Fischer Poetry Prize

Animals, Home, Life, Marriage, Metaphor, metaphysics, Nature, Parenthood, philosophy, Poetry, Poets, Reality, Science, Thoughts, Time, Trees, Writing
2020 Fischer Prize Winners Announced!

It’s an extraordinary honor to have “Thanks a Lot, Shakespeare, for the Starling” selected as the winner of the 2020 Fischer Poetry Prize! A special thank you to judge Claire Blotter and the Talking Gourds crew for making my 2020 a little less horrible, and congrats to all the other finalists!

Link to my Poetry Chapbook “Secret Traits of Everyday Things”, on sale at Encircle Publications

Animals, Break-Up, Comedy, Death, doubt, Existence, Fantasy, Father, Food, Form, Future, Home, Humor, Life, Love, Marriage, Metaphor, metaphysics, Mourning, Nature, Night, Parenthood, philosophy, Poetry, Poets, Reincarnation, Religion, Science, Time, Tragedy, Travel, Trees, Violence, Voice, Water, World, Writing, , ,

https://encirclepub.com/product/secret-traits-of-everyday-things-by-jonathan-greenhause/