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T S Eliot: Reflections on vers libre
Posted by fogglethorpe on Friday, May 24, 2013 (15:00:00)
It is assumed that vers libre exists. It is assumed that vers libre is a school; that it consists of certain theories; that its group or groups of theorists will either revolutionise or demoralise poetry if their attack upon the iambic pentameter meets with any success..
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Book News: The Poetry of Marriage, Literary Libations
Posted by Tony on Friday, May 17, 2013 (19:09:21)
Poetry News: Ruth Graham on the rise of poetry in wedding ceremonies and the difficulty of finding " a wedding poem of one's own ."
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Is literature dead or just changing for the better?
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 (15:00:00)
People often assume that literature is dead, but in reality, there are plenty of adults in the U.S. still indulging in a fine novel, whether it is fiction or non-fiction does not matter. The common belief is that both teens and adults should be only reading thrilling works that stimulate the mind such as William Faulkner and the likes, but how could a reader be stimulated if they felt offended by Faulkner’s writing?
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A Tribute To Richard Feynman: Feynman Point Pilish Poems 2013
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 13, 2013 (16:00:00)
Putting these two ideas together, I came up with the Feynman Point Pilish Poetry challenge. Each poem consists of just six 9-letter words. That’s it! A kind of haiku for maths geeks..
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Faith, Grace, and the Arts
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Wednesday, May 08, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: ... in how I respond?" Equally unexpected is the more deliberative attention that the media has given to religious poetry, especially its recent focus on the work and life of a Christian poet named Christian Wiman. I have read his poetry in magazines ...
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He's conquering all his Demons
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Wednesday, May 08, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: ... about this moment in history to come up with something undiscovered," he says. "When we were recording Szlengel's poetry, for the the first time in my life I just wept and wept in the studio. "Szlengel called himself the chronicler of the drowning ...
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So That If I Died It Mattered
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 (16:00:00)
When asked to explain my choices, I’ve said, “Art is how you explain what it feels like to be alive in the 21st century. I am an emotional historian.” But that’s really my answer to, “Why should we all make art?” My why is more personal..
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A Noob's Guide to Experiencing Live Poetry and Spoken Word in Dallas
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 (15:55:13)
Poetry News: Sometimes things are only "underground" out of ignorance. The poetry scene in Dallas is an established one, home to both talent and venues, each with its own style.
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"Good Poems Begin in Kansas, and End in Oz"
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 (15:53:05)
In a recent HuffPost piece, Liz Madans, an English teacher at Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Secondary School for Arts & Technology in Long Island City, writes about teaching poetry to high school seniors and what she learned at an eye-opening master class with poet laureate Billy Collins..
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Whatcom poet illuminates the value of creative writing
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 (15:00:00)
It's Tuesday morning, 9:30 a.m., and I'm leading a creative writing class for highly capable learners at Shuksan Middle School. The students are working on six-page stories and I've discovered a lot of them have chosen to write police dramas, or war epics, or mafia tales - stories with violence..
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Pennsylvania German is Still Popular
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 06, 2013 (15:00:00)
One of the professor's crowning achievements was his text, "Author of Pennsylvania German Folklore," written for his doctorate and later added to for the Pennsylvania German Society. He also wrote dialect poetry while the Princeton University Press published much of his research into Pennsylvania German and German literature..
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Harry Eyres: In touch with my poetic side
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Monday, May 06, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: ... that Pessoa is above all a poet, not a prose-writer. So let me cut to the chase. My book club seems suspicious of poetry, and still worse (for me), of poets. I cannot imagine anyone suggesting that we read, not a novel of recent or not-so-recent ...
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Folio prize: a level playing field for self-published authors
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Monday, May 06, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: At last, a major literary award is opening its doors to indie writers. But does the news fill you with horror or excitement? The right lines a Kate Tempest's self-published debut poetry collection was ignored until she won the Ted Hughes award this year.
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Bonhams to sell revealing papers of key Sylvia Plath poem completed days before
Posted by Tony on Sunday, May 05, 2013 (12:19:21)
Poetry News: ... Plath's poem Sheep in Fog, are to be sold on 8 May in Part II of the sale of The Roy Davids Collection Part III: Poetry: Poetical Manuscripts and Portraits of Poets at Bonhams , New Bond Street. Estimated at 30,000-35,000, they provide a vivid and ...
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Abruzzo: Poetry in motion in central Italy
Posted by Tony on Sunday, May 05, 2013 (12:12:04)
Poetry News: ... Ovid's Metamorphoses to read. The poet was born in 43BC in the local province of Sulmona. He penned witty, visceral poetry that now seems oddly modern. I'd travelled here with my sulky teenage daughter, on trains, a plane, noisy buses and with a ...
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Why You Should Be an Immigrant.. by Charles Simic, the former poet...
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Saturday, May 04, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: ... f immigrant writing, noticeably improves in literary quality in recent decades. When I started writing and publishing poetry in the United States in the 1950s, and
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'Poems To Learn By Heart': The Merits Of Memorizing Verse
Posted by fogglethorpe on Friday, May 03, 2013 (17:13:36)
Poetry News: Caroline Kennedy isn't just an advocate for reading poetry. In her latest book, Poems to Learn by Heart, Kennedy stresses the importance of memorizing poetry and presents a collection of poems that she believes kids and adults alike should internalize.
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Guilty Pleasures: Students are guilty of writing angsty poetry
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Friday, May 03, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: Last Saturday, April 27, poet Maggie Nelson visited campus and said it is hard to write happy poetry.
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Leaving National Poetry Month on a light note: James Varney
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, May 01, 2013 (14:23:28)
The problem with poetry is everyone wants to be Rilke and almost no one is. Consequently, poetry is filled with flowery nonsense and is scorned..
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Guest post on history and poetry: Bottled bitter-sweetness
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 (16:05:41)
Poetry News: To close out National Poetry Month, writer Scott Ruescher reflects on how history, memory, and the National Museum of American History influence his poetry.
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From Dissections To Depositions, Poets' Second Jobs
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 (16:00:00)
"No man but a blockhead," Samuel Johnson famously observed, "ever wrote, except for money." This is tough news for poets, since the writing they do is often less immediately profitable than a second grader's math homework (the kid gets a cookie or a hug; the poet gets a rejection letter from The Kenyon Review).
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Community Challenge | Reach students through poetry
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, April 29, 2013 (14:49:15)
Poetry News: When you ask a modern group of high schoolers what they think about poetry, some fairly typical responses emerge.
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An offering of Moon magic, poetry about the Moon
Posted by fogglethorpe on Saturday, April 27, 2013 (14:41:43)
Today there is a Full Moon and an eclipse. Everyone on the planet will be able to see the moon or feel its powerful energy as Luna shines brightly..
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Light touch unites verse
Posted by fogglethorpe on Saturday, April 27, 2013 (14:39:15)
Poetry News: Imposing a common theme on a composite review of books, particularly verse or poetry, is normally lazy practice and usually silly.
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