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National Poetry Month 2015: Activities, Ideas To Celebrate Your Favorite American Authors
Try making Emily Dickinson's coconut cake or let Jack Prelutsky teach you to write.
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Moving & Being Moved: Poetry As Practice
To mark the completion of — and provide some insight in to the work which collectively comprised — Rhizome and the New Museum's online-only Poetry as Practice exhibition, Sophie Collins sent a single set of questions to all six contributors, relaying below each of their voices in response to the ideas of translation and performance, poetry as media and digital media, the influence of the reader or viewer and the possible collapsing of 'poetry' as a discrete category.
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A tale of two poets, Thom Gunn and Elizabeth Bishop
After a rocky first meeting, the two became friends. Colm Toíbín traces the similarities in their outlook and describes how, by virtue of their poems, they both moved from self-effacement into the light
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1,200 years later, is Chinese poetry entering a new golden age?
'China's Emily Dickinson' thrives along with a new generation of poets: Punk poets, micro-blogging poets and farm-girl poets. Annoyed traditionalists worry that poetry has become a little too popular and accessible. American poets may just look on in envy.
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It’s National Poetry Month and You Haven’t Read a Single Poem Yet, Have You?
Now is as good a time as any to start. In honor of National Poetry Month, then, here are some poems that might inspire non-poetry readers to reconsider their abstinence.
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The Library of Congress Is Uploading 75 Years of Poetry and Literature Recordings
Yesterday selections from the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature at the Library of Congress became available to stream online for the first time.
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We are stardust: the restrained elegance of Clive James’s Sentenced to Life
“The world you quit / Is staying here, so say goodbye to it.”
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Thirteen Thoughts on Poetry in the Digital Age
Poetry is not a frippery. It's a useful--even utilitarian--salve for what ails us. It is not the right salve for everyone, but it's right for some, and at times in its history, for very many. If it's right for you, you will know it. When you hear the...
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The 50 Best American Poetry Books of the Decade so Far
An admittedly idiosyncratic cross section of American poetry from 2010 to today, one that should open an aperture onto the prospects of a cautiously flourishing community.
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Writers Should Look for What Others Don't See
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic discusses the importance of noticing hidden truths—from the horrors of war to the mundane aspects of daily life.
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Funeral Poetry: A Last-Ditch Effort
Death leaves us speechless. I lost my sister-in-law unexpectedly six months ago and in the aftermath my wife, my family, and I barely spoke. Of course, we spent entire days together; its just that the words had all gone bad.
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Unthinkable: What’s the use of poetry?
Science ‘doesn’t do feelings’ but it should not ignore poetic truths, argues physicist and poet Iggy McGovern
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Quietism — A Poem by Ben Ladouceur
All hours away from the hearth make us shake. Not all shaking hours occur away from the hearth ...
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Why Sylvia Plath Still Haunts Us
Even half a century after her suicide, both her work and her life remain thrilling and horrifying.
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How poetry can help us say the unsayable
How art — especially literature and poetry most of all — can help us.
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Is Poetry Dead? Not Even Close.
It's not National Poetry Month without a columnist penning a piece declaring that poetry is dead. The predictable appearance of these articles is almost comical. The press has been picking on American poetry for at least 125 years, and the arguments are always the same: no one buys poetry, no one reads poetry, and poets are to blame.
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3 Poems — Melissa Kwasny
Late morning, strange, a kind of music. I was in love with earth again. I wanted to stay forever as with a Person. Corridors of sandstone, the white, orange-rose...
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Two Poems — Sarah Jean Alexander
Two poems by "Shabby Doll House" co-editor and author of Big Lucks-published "Wildlives", Sarah Jean Alexander, make up this week's edition of new writing on tQ
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Uppity Bovine: A Series of Poems
Uppity Bovine — I'm in the china shop, my glasshooves chanting. I clip and clop and rub my rump along the antiques behaving like hay after first thaw. I've had to compose myself twice...
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Toward an Oral Art: Poetry and Audio Books
If you’re a contemporary poet, the ascendancy of the audiobook has to seem like a promising development. Poetry, after all, is “the most insistently physical art,” according to Robert Pinsky.