Category Archives: Mourning

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

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

Interview featured on Tŷ Newydd’s website for the 2017 Ledbury Poetry Competition

Profile: Ledbury Poetry Festival Poetry Competition Winner Jonathan Greenhause

“Our Recurring List of Heartbreaks”, Southword Journal, 2016

http://munsterlit.ie/Southword/Issues/29A/greenhause_jonathan.html

“7%”, Tampa Review, 2016

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/631438/pdf