This winter we've been looking at the varied ways in which contemporary poets address the Persephone/Demeter myth.* Today we have a fresh new take on the theme: "Demeter in Winter" by Celia Bland...followed by an equally gorgeous mythic poem, "Zeus' First Wife," further down the same web page.
Celia Bland is the author of Soft Box (CavanKerry Press) and a member of the Albany Poets group. Her work has appeared in Natural Bridge, Bard Papers, Sui Generis, Prima Matera, Heliotrope, Chain, The Alembic, The Mystic River Review and other journals. (I particularly recommend her delightful piece Captions for Cartoons Not Yet Drawn, on the Entelechy Journal site.) For more information on the author, please visit her website.
The art above is by Jacqueline Morreau.
* See the previous Persephone/Demeter posts: November 18th, December 2nd and March 5th. And going even further back: June 3rd and January 14, 2007 and October 29, 2006.
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