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My Poets
I finished reading My Poets by Maureen McLane. You are probably tired by now of hearing me saw how much …Continue reading »
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Tying Poetry to a Chair and Beating It
With kids returning to school, the Library of Congress has started back up Poetry 180, a poem a day intended …Continue reading »
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I Have to Read This!
I stumbled upon a review today at the Los Angeles Review of Books about a fairly recent book by Charles …Continue reading »
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The Difficult Poem
I was AWOL yesterday because Attack of the Difficult Poems by Charles Berstein arrived from the library and I had …Continue reading »
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Happy Poetry Day!
Last night’s crowning was blessedly uneventful. It took longer than necessary due to a multi-tasking dentist who was working on …Continue reading »
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Poetry Awesomeness
It has been an interesting weekend. Bookman threw his back out yesterday morning. What a funny description that is, don’t …Continue reading »
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An Interesting Approach to Teaching Poetry
In case no one has noticed, I am really enjoying Bernstein’s Attack of the Difficult Poems. Yesterday I posted all …Continue reading »
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World Enough
In the midst of reading My Poets by Maureen McLane, I decided that I had to also read one of …Continue reading »
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The Best of It
Kay Ryan, why have I not heard of her? She has turned out to be a most interesting poet for me. Ryan was U.S. Poet Laureate from 2008 – 2010 and won the Pulitzer in 2011 for The Best of It: New and...
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Attack of the Difficult Poems
My parents enjoy listening to sports on the radio, baseball in summer, (American) football in winter. When I was a kid summer afternoons and evenings usually meant the San Diego Padre game was on...
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Life On Mars
Tracy K. Smith likes David Bowie. I like David Bowie. Therefore I like Tracy K. Smith. How’s that for logic? No, it doesn’t quite work even though it is true. After dark, stars glisten like ice, and...
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Inaugural Poem
I was so excited to learn that President Obama will have an inaugural poem. The poem will be written and read by Richard Blanco on January 21st at the ceremonial swearing in. Blanco, of whom I had...
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Happy Valentine’s Day
This Sky By Hafiz This Sky Where we live Is no place to lose your wings So love, love, Love. Filed under: Poetry Tagged: Hafiz
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Celebrating Poetry
Today marks the beginning of National Poetry Month in the United States. I know I kvetch now and then about how the designation does a disservice to poetry, corralling it into one month as though April...
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Reading Plans Derailed
I had the pleasure of a four-day weekend due to the Easter holiday. I had big plans. Spring cleaning! Reading! Reading! Reading! Not to mention reading! But things went awry. I managed to clean off my...
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Zofia Grochowalska Abramowicz
Zofia Grochowalska Abramowicz, also known as the poet of Auschwitz, was a Polish Catholic working for the Resistance. She was captured at the beginning of the war and spent four years at Ravensbruck...
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The Exhumation of Pablo
You’ve probably all heard already that in honor of National Poetry Month Pablo Neruda’s body was exhumed yesterday. Well, no it has nothing to do with National Poetry Month, it is just a (lucky?)...
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The Collected Poems of Marcel Proust
Today I am a stop on Serena’s National Poetry Month Blog Tour. Click on the link for the entire month’s schedule and to enjoy some fine poetry blog posts. When someone from Penguin asked me if I would...
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Science, Poetry and Mind Control
Did you know the Library of Congress has a bunch of blogs covering a wide variety of topics? They never fail to be interesting. On the science and tech blog a few days ago they had a post about Emily...
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American Poetry is Dead, Long Live American Poetry
Has anybody read the July Harper’s Magazine article Poetry Slam Or, The decline of American Poetry by Mark Edmundson? (sorry, the article is behind a paywall). Or, maybe you saw Washington Post blog...
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