Poets and Poems: Catherine Strisik and “Goat, Goddess, Moon”

It’s coincidental, but my poetry reading this week has taken me to Greece. Tuesday, it was The Presence of One Word by Andrea Potos. Today, it’s a journey through family history and tradition. 

In Goat, Goddess, Moon: Poems, Catherine Strisik poetically tells story after story of family history and experiences. And the family is a Greek one. We travel with her to the villages and landscapes of her forebears in northern Greece. (Part 1 of the collection lists the villages of Amygdalies and Trapezitsa, and I googled them to find them on a map.)

 

Not surprisingly, perhaps, she associates the family with food and herbs, like her great-grandmother who came to America in 1916 carrying the smell of chamomile. 

To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.

Some Thursday Readings

 

Radio Therapy – poem by Maureen Doallas at Writing Without Paper.

 

“To My Dear and Loving Husband,” poem by Anne Bradstreet – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

The Moon: Skinny-Dipping with Stars – poem by Kelly Belmonte.

 

What It Means to be Free – poem by David Whyte.