- 8 years ago Sticky: OC Poetry Thread
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‘What is the use’
Not everything Gertrude Stein wrote is worth calling poetry. Stein says so herself in “Poetry and Grammar,” because “for me the problem of poetry was and it began with Tender Buttons to constantly realize the thing anything so that I could recreate that thing.”
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A hell of a month for poetry – An Irishman’s Diary about Dante, Yeats, and Seán Haldane
This is a very big month for poetry, what with the impending 150th birthday of WB Yeats (June 13th) and the 750th birthday of Dante (sometime around now). Meanwhile, there’s also the election of the latest Oxford professor of poetry, which threatens to overshadow the drama of the search for a new Fifa president.
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Richard Siken, “Saying Your Names”
Who would you send this poem to, if you were the kind of person who sent poetry? Is the answer “everybody”? Same!!
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Love, poetry and war: the Afghan women risking all for verse
The founder of Afghanistan’s largest women’s literary society, whose female members regularly put their lives at risk to write poetry documenting sex, rage, war and heartbreak, will be among those speaking at the International Poetry Festival at London’s Southbank Centre this summer.
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Words in many forms: Kate Tempest tackles poetry, spoken word, hip-hop
Young English upstart offered a crowd-pleasing and uncynical show at U Street Music Hall.
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A Glossary of Poetic Forms
All types of poems and forms of poetry including popular forms like haiku, sonnets, and free verse. A comprehensive glossary containing a list of various types of poems with examples. See poetic forms with associated poem examples. Learn about and use different styles of poetry.
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Two Poems – by Katie Foster
One of two poets published by Electric Cereal's newly-established press, this week's new writing is taken from Katie Foster's just-released collection, Animal Problems
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Teachings
A summer stint in a hospital, where poetry is necessary medicine. By Win Bassett.
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“To Caitlyn Jenner” by Suzanne Langlois
Welcome to the club where the first thing anybody notices about you is where you fall on the continuum of pretty. Congratulations, you appear to have landed on the right side of the sorting line that stretches from beautiful to invisible.
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Ascent – by Lyn Li Che
The morning you died I tried my best to unravel into a descent of woodpeckers. I coughed, stretched, but the most I could muster was a squawk: a catch in my throat like a toy car down the sink...
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Waiting Room – by YE Hui
at the blue hour, the waiting room the depthless hall like somnolence
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Friends have zest for art zine
Art has always been a release for high school friends Kristine Cunningham and Sarah Torstvet. The Anaheim women both made sacrifices for their art.
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Soul Phone - by Christine Graf
At the outdoor restaurant I watch people pass by, check their cells, their heads bowed in phone prayer clicking to see if God has left them a message.
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Two Poems by Monica Ong
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected two poems by Monica Ong for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
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Lifting Life Out of Me
when you have long dark hair you leave traces of your self everywhere. your hair becomes a falling map, dropping into the cracks of side walks and cracks of borders. you lose yourself str...
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Can a Poem Listen?
There has been a recent flowering of books and poems published by white poets that address race and racism, including my own. But, are we writing race and racism, reinforcing the white viewpoint, which is designed not to threaten its own power? Or, are we rewriting race and racism, not merely representing, but disturbing; showing not just whiteness—but what it is to be awake, and disruptive, inside it?
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The World, by Eileen G'Sell
The world does not take place in the shower. Though maybe her world does. The world is full of snacks and smut, unheated basements, pain.
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Holy Night - by Jennifer Yurges
I am about six and from the front seat Grandfather is yelling in Italian, which I don't understand so it might as well be the priest's Latin prayer, which I don't pay attention to either.
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On Disliking Poetry
By Ben Lerner
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Phoenix Frozen, by Anna E. Childs
There is a tendency to envision people frozen in time— that girl with one blue eye, one brown used to run around with me hot evenings in the neighborhood.