Three Summers of Poetry and Pathos: A Poet’s Ride With Cancer
Please note: this blog post was originally published by 32 Poems blog in the summer of 2011. I am not sure why they removed it, but they have been going through some restructuring over...
Joshua Gray Blog
A Look Back at the Last Four Years
First of all, titling my posts drive me crazy. I learned to title things as I did here, where words such as “at” and “the” are lower-case, but everything else is upper-case; however, I...
Inaugural Poetry
Watching the Presidential Inauguration yesterday, one thing stood out in my mind more than anything else: Damn it was cold out there. Michelle Obama made sure she looked fashionable while at the same time...
Where are all the Indian poets?
I have been been spending quite some time now trying to build up my Twitter followers with Indian poets. I have a lot of Twitter friends, most of them poets, and with a handful...
The Rape of India
I have been thinking about the gang rape — and death — of an Indian woman on a local bus last month. The incident made international headlines. Tweets and Facebook posts abounded. An old...
Poetry Book Reviews for Examiner.com
During my time as the DC Poetry Examiner for Examiner.com, I wrote several reviews of poetry books by local Washington DC poets. Below is a complete list of reviews. ‘Summer Becomes Absurd’ is quite becoming...
2012: A look back
2012 treated me well. I published two books. The first one was Beowulf: A Verse Adaptation With Young Readers In Mind, a poem I wrote for my son many years ago that made it...