Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
An alphabetical list of poets who have considered the pig.
Kathryn Mockler, Canada, (b. 1971), poetry includes: Malice. Mockler is a poet, writer, filmmaker, screenwriter and video artist. She teaches creative writing and screenwriting at the University of Western Ontario and is also the Toronto editor of Joylandand co-founder/co-editor of The Rusty Toque.
Ander Monson, United States, (b. 1975), poetry includes: Dear Boar. Monson is a novelist, poet, and nonfiction writer. He edits the online journal DIAGRAM, Essay Daily, and New Michigan Press, and teaches at the University of Arizona.
United States, (1779-1863) The Pig and the Rooster On a warm sunny day, in the midst of July, A lazy young pig lay stretched out in his sty, Like some of his betters, most solemnly thinking That the best things on earth are good eating and drinking. At length, to get rid of the gnats … Read more
Cindy Hunter Morgan, United States, (b. 1968), poetry includes: J. OSWALD BOYD, 1936. Morgan is a poet and educator who teaches creative writing, poetry and book arts at Michigan State University. She is the author of two chapbooks, a full-length collection of poems informed by Great Lakes shipwrecks, Harborless, and a new book, Far Company, to be published 2022.
Scotland, (1920-2010) An Alphabet of Goddesses(excerpt) Circe She thought she could live on the capital of weather-hard Odysseus having stacked his shield and spear at her door and scampered in her bed that long time, but now she has grown old there seem to be no sunny days on her alder-dark island, no fleets … Read more
United States, (contemporary) On Buying A New Harley To buy, or not to buy, that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to keep your old Harley, Or to buy a new and thus end the heart-ache And the thousand natural shocks that wishing For a new Twin Cam is heir to? Tis’ … Read more
Bradford Morrow, United States, (b. 1951), poetry includes: PIG. Morrow is a poet and novelist and the founder of the literary journal Conjunctions. He is now Professor of Literature at Bard College.
Garry Thomas Morse, Canada (contemporary), poetry includes: The Poet Reclining. Morse is a poet and fiction writer. He is the author of several books of poetry, including: Transversals for Orpheus (2006), Streams (2007), After Jack (2010), and Discovery Passages (2011), an exploration of his mother’s Kwakwaka’wakw First Nations ancestry.
Karla K. Morton, United States, (b. 1964), poetry includes: Summer of the Pig.
Morton is a poet, writer, photographer, storyteller and songwriter. She holds a Journalism degree from Texas A&M University and was the 2010 Texas Poet Laureate. Morton and has thirteen collections of poetry and has been featured on NPR, PBS, ABC News, CBS News and in countless newspapers, blogs and magazines.
Diane Mulholland, Australia / England, (contemporary), poetry includes: Spring and the Pig Mother. Mulholland is a poet, born in rural Australia and who now lives in London, where she can often be found beside the Thames. She recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.