Almanac Poetry: Goya’s El Pelele (The Straw Manikin)

Previously unpublished, Kevin Densley’s poem gives voice to the figure of the airborne straw man in Goya’s well-known painting. [Gives new meaning to straw manning, Ed.]

Almanac Poetry: A Pilgrimage to San Isidro

This week’s poem from Kevin Densley, previously unpublished, takes as its point of departure a disturbing late painting by Spanish master Francisco Goya.

Almanac Poetry: The Burial of the Sardine

In today’s poem, Kevin Densley winds back the clock to a poem he wrote in his twenties, based upon a stunning painting by Goya.