Jolene Nolte currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia where she revels in the innumerable shades of green and the fact that she does not have to choose between mountains and the ocean. She works as a freelance writer and editor while also nourishing her poetry habit.
10 for 2020
10 songs I can only listen to on repeat, paired (for no particular reason) with 10 poems I memorized because I love them so much: “Jupiter” by Aoife O’Donovan & “The Necklace,” by Osip Mandelstam, trans. Christian Wiman ~ “Drawn to the Blood,” by Sufjan Stevens & “Don’t Worry,” by Mary Oliver ~ “Familiarity,” by […]
On re-reading (and being summoned back to life by) Denise Levertov's "Caedmon"
“This poem can change a person’s entire way of being,” my professor Chad Wriglesworth said of Denise Levertov’s “Caedmon.” A high claim for a poem—and it’s true for me. I originally read “Caedmon” as an undergraduate and aspiring poet in California. I can still picture it printed on the crinkled page in my water-damaged anthology. […]
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