Ten Most Read Poets – North of Oxford 2019

The following is a list of the most read poets published by North of Oxford by reader views between December 2018 to December 2019.

i was the night by Jonathan Hine

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/07/15/i-was-the-night-by-jonathan-hine/

Obit by Doug Holder

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/08/14/obit-by-doug-holder/

2 Poems by Byron Beynon

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/05/15/2-poems-by-byron-beynon/

2 Poems by Akshaya Pawaskar

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/2-poems-by-akshaya-pawaskar/

The Natural World by Judy Kronenfeld

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/the-natural-world-by-judy-kronenfeld/

2 Poems by Nasim Basiri

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/2-poems-by-nasim-basiri/

Tin Roof by Hiram Larew

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/06/13/tin-roof-by-hiram-larew/

Tell Them You Invited Me by Margaret A. Campbell

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/tell-them-you-invited-me-by-margaret-a-campbell/

2 Poems by J.C. Todd

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/05/15/2-poems-by-j-c-todd/

America by Tim Suermondt

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/06/13/america-by-tim-suermondt/

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Most Read Poets January 1st to June 1st

We are pleased to share our top twelve most read poets between January 1^st and June 1^st of this year.

The Natural World by Judy Kronenfeld

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/the-natural-world-by-judy-kronenfeld/

Tell Them You Invited Me by Margaret A. Campbell

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/tell-them-you-invited-me-by-margaret-a-campbell/

2 Poems by Nasim Basiri

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/2-poems-by-nasim-basiri/

2 Poems by J.C. Todd

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/05/15/2-poems-by-j-c-todd/

2 Poems by Akshaya Pawaskar

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/2-poems-by-akshaya-pawaskar/

2 Poems by Byron Beynon

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/05/15/2-poems-by-byron-beynon/

Old Bones by Lou Gallo

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/01/14/old-bones-by-lou-gallo/

Alexander Pushkin Dies in a Duel by Charles Rammelkamp

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/05/15/alexander-pushkin-dies-in-a-duel-by-charles-rammelkamp/

Ally, aka Advisor Resigns by Stephen Page

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/01/14/ally-aka-advisor-resigns-by-stephen-page/

2 Poems by Arlyn LaBelle

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/2-poems-by-arlyn-labelle/

A Man Like Her Father By David Boski

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/04/15/a-man-like-her-father-by-david-boski/

Reprise by Frank Wilson

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2019/03/15/reprise-by-frank-wilson/

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The Natural World by Judy Kronenfeld

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The Natural World

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                        for DNK

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A full North moon

glides up behind my shoulders

over the black lake

on which I dream I am rowing

whose shores are covered

in crusted snow—

like a radiant beneficence,

regal in beaten gold,

immense,

a powerful friend

who understands the comforts

of wordless closeness.

.

It silently swings

a censer of sheen,

flings purse after purse

of spangles and gleams.

And my oars drip gold

as I raise them to rest,

the gunnels drop stars

as the boat bobs

in the swells. How the liquid dark

spills awake, as if

warmed from within!

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But my stark heart—even in

this dream brooding

on your frightening diagnosis—shivers

in my chest, and my cold hands unfold

only helplessness.

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Judy Kronenfeld’s most recent books of poetry are Bird Flying through the Banquet (FutureCycle, 2017), Shimmer (WordTech, 2012), and Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths, 2nd edition (Antrim House, 2012)—winner of the 2007 Litchfield Review Poetry Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review, DMQ Review, Ghost Town,  North of Oxford, Pedestal, Rattle, and Valparaiso Poetry Review, among other journals, and in two dozen anthologies. She is Lecturer Emerita, Creative Writing, UC Riverside, and an Associate Editor of Poemeleon. 

Judy Kronenfeld