Pandora's Kitchen

NATIONALLY-HONORED POET POET LAUREATE OF SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA PUSHCART PRIZE WINNERRon Koertge explores human fragility throughout history in his poetry collection, PANDORAS KITCHENMoral certainties and stereotypes vanish in these sly/subversive, satiric/tender, achingly funny/humane poems.Amy Gerstler They are poetry at its best, causing his readers to laugh, think, and feel anew.Billy Collins, former US poet laureate.The subjects in Ron Koertges poems include Hades unhappy wife Persephone, Nancy Drew, and Draculas Wives.The subjects in Ron Koertges poems include Hades unhappy wife Persephone, Nancy Drew, and Draculas Wives. He has located Jane Austen at the mall, comforted the sun itself, and celebrated a winning day at the races. In an early poem, he extols his chosen vocation by saying this: Its so great to be a poet. Im basically self-employed with nobody to please but myself. Yet pleasing his many fans is at the top of his Things-To-Do list. That is why poets from Billy Collins to B. H. Fairchild have called his poems masterful, quirky, deliciously sly, inventive and surprisingly sweet.