while doing a little browsing this evening i discovered myself in good company. what i mean is the world class poetry blog unbenownst to me until now has been aggregated along with several other poetry sites at alltop.com .
if youre not familiar with alltop.com then you may be familiar with one of its founders guy kawasaki a bigwig in the web business 2.0 world. its quite an...... [Show More]
after surveying the poetry blogosphere ive settled on there being about 5 different types of poetry blogs online today. there are different variations of the 5 but i think we can settle on placing them into 5 categories and ill outline those for you with some recommendations on which are the best blogs to read in those categories with one exception. i wont recommend any spec...... [Show More]
im quite entranced by the poetry of james weldon johnson who took the cadence of a preacher and wrote it into poetry that sings and preaches at the same time. what wise words for a foolish young man your arms too short to box with god
the prodigal son
by james weldon johnson
young man
young man
your arms too short to box with god.
but jesus sp...... [Show More]
best selling poetry Post Source: laurelsnyder.com Posted: Nov 28 2008 01:08:33
im not sure how this happened or what it means but according to the poetry foundation my poetry collection the myth of the simple machines is 26
wow
this craziness is made even better by the fact that my awesome afriend paul is 19.a how fun is that...... [Show More]
fences Post Source: www.billtrippe.com Posted: Nov 25 2008 21:46:12
american life in poetry column 192
by ted kooser u.s. poet laureate 20042006
class status privilege despite all our talk about equality theyre with us wherever we go. in this poem pat mora who grew up in a spanish speaking home in el paso texas contrasts the lives of rich tourists with the less fortunate people who serve them. the titles of poems are often among the most...... [Show More]
... the arts the shelley memorial award and the ruth lilly prize.
for more information about lucille clifton and examples of her work visit
httpwww .poets.org poet.php prmpid79
httpwww .poetryfou ndation.or garchive poet.html id1304
httpen. wikipedia. orgwikil ucille cli fton
podcast interview with clifton httpwww .poetryfou ndation.or gjournal audioitem. htmlid11 0
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how do you get a successful poetry movement goinga apparently according to this podcast there are some tricks of the trade brought to you by the objectivists .
how do we turn poegles into a movementa share your thoughts please.a and listen to the podcast here
how to start a poetry movement...... [Show More]
photo by midorionna
i cant decide if adam kirsch really really gets it or if hes so wrong that hes almost bent back around to righzt wormhole fashion. the whole essay on writers aspiration fame and the age of blogs and the internet is worth a read but heres a taste that made me think
the internet has democratized the means of selfexpres sion...... [Show More]
i think imagism means you dont use many words and you write clearly. crisp and brief. sometimes there are leaves but always water droplets plums garbage cans andor grass.
here is an example
a friend of mine sent me an email with this richard brautigan attached i feel horrible she doesnt . apparently my friends girlfriend dumped him and he was...... [Show More]
chchchanges Post Source: drepoetic.wordpress.com Posted: Nov 19 2008 07:38:59
my apologies to my faithful readers all twelve of you for my snailspace of posts recently.
today was my first day at my new job my first postgrad fulltime job woot. more on this later
accordingly my life rhythms are undergoing some dramatic shifts.
i know i know the world is still happening everything is changing so fast. i can barely keep up.
...... [Show More]
parece que he encontrado mi sapervillano. mi criptonita. mi motivo para seguir adelante. el motor de mi vida. mi voluntad secreta. mi pulsian. mi joker en el batman de christopher nolan.
se llama godoy. ector godoy.
ector godoy. pintura realista. ortografaa de fantasaa.
son tantas las marcas en sus carteles en su local sobre la calle aramberri que es facil concluir que es como ...... [Show More]
theres this new controversial anthology of nearly 4000 poems entitled issue 1. it is large enough to defy the limits of traditional bookbinding with its 3785 pages. it defies another assumption about books too. this anthology was compiled by editors stephen mclaughlin gregory laynor vladimir and aleksandrovich zykov but its contents werent exactly writt...... [Show More]
this week bill varner picked a poem to commemmorate veterans day.
a distant relative of mine recently passed away. id only really come to know him recently and mostly through email. he was a brilliant teacher and also a fighter pilot in ww ii. yesterday on the radio i learned that on the 90th anniversary of wwi the great war there are but a handful of veterans left. and ea...... [Show More]
november reveals hidden things the true contours of trees the river out beyond the saplings fringing our back yard abandoned birds nests this one woven with plastic streamers stolen from my daughters bike handlebars. no roses for harry anyone something about november strips bare the inner world too and encourages the shedding of illusions.
this brief simple...... [Show More]
waterworld Post Source: hermenaut.org Posted: Nov 13 2008 14:14:00
1. my review of stanley crawfords log of the s.s. the mrs. unguentine is in the new bookforum . 2. and heres an article ive been looking forward to dzyd bens take on the poets who populate the novels of...take a guess.....go on...... you re right roberto bolaao 3. i always enjoy the fantasy science fiction curiosities column now...... [Show More]
pulitzerprize winning poet phil levine has lived and taught for much of his life in fresno california in the san joaquin valley of central california. growing up in sacramento that valley is a place i know and love. in fact the title of my critical thesis for my mfa in poetry was writing in gold dust on california poetry.
enjoy levines beautiful poem about the central v...... [Show More]
that headline the poet known for making despair beautiful found to have ruthless sense of humor will hardly prove a challenging riddle to those familiar with my list of interests.
consequently adding the information that his theme of lost unrequited or impossible love moves many to tears verges on the superfluous.
those phrases are nonetheless enlighte...... [Show More]
what will be served for our reception
in the devastation finger food of course
and white wine something printed on the napkins.
we were not children together
but we are now. every bird knows
only two notes constantly rearranged.
thats called forever so we wear pajamas
to the practice funeral buckeroos
to the end. we make paper hats
of headlines and float them away.
my ho...... [Show More]
recently robert pinsky wrote the following in the boston globe
walt whitmans poem celebrating election day calls our quadrennial choosing a more spectacular and powerful show than national scenic marvels such as yosemite niagara falls or the spasmic geyserloops of yellowstone.
the poem is not wet or glibly sunny. whitman chooses to speak of voting da...... [Show More]
when i was in chicago last month for my brotherin law8217 s wedding celebration we walked up miracle mile crossed over the chicago river and headed to millennium park . of course it was windy chicago is known as the windy city and this day lived up to the reputation.
the following photo is the skyline reflected in a sculpture by anish kapoor entitled cloud gate. my friends in ch...... [Show More]
poet and translator charles bernstein discusses the dangers of apocalyptic thinking as exposed in carlos drummond de andrades poem the bomb in a podcast from the poetry foundation poems for president obama ....... [Show More]
because its friday Post Source: ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com Posted: Nov 07 2008 18:37:44
i really couldnt pick anything else. this is cornelius eadys sprawlingly beautiful victims of the latest dance craze . eady is one of my favorite poets. you can read a mediocre feature i wrote on him when i was 22. damn so long ago. anyway if i can find it ill post another favorite of mine by eadyjack johnson does the eagle rock. its a play on the ti...... [Show More]
bolano poems in the latest issue of poetry . good examples of a novelists poems which seem less in general to me than a poets novels which begs the question of the difference between the two practitioners beg beg all a compact a words the poet and novelist robert creeley said about the difference which he said didnt exist...... [Show More]
this week our editor bill varner was insipired by this weeks presidential election in his choice of poetry.
frederick douglass
by robert hayden
when it is finally ours this freedom this liberty this beautiful
and terrible thing needful to man as air
usable as earth when it belongs at last to all
read the rest of the poem here...... [Show More]
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