How Beautiful a Fish Can Be
This evening is the first time that I have read Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Fish”. Before now, my only contact with the poem was through a spoken performance given in my Literature in Performance...
View ArticleI know we aren’t reading Heaney, but…
Here is a link to an intriguing review of Seamus Heaney’s most recent collection of poetry, Human Chain. The reviewer, Nick Laird, writes: “Human Chain is stranger – and much greater – than a cursory...
View ArticleA Contemporary Use for Poetry
I saw this article the other day and it made me wonder if the contemporary use of poetry is, like Heaney says in “The Redress of Poetry” it can serve both his definitions: 1) ”reparation of,...
View ArticleCoPo of the Mo’ 3
Bruce Smith does not have the name of someone who aspires to be famous. The last sentence (out of three) of his Wikipedia biography reads, “That’s all, that’s it.” He writes poems; he has been...
View ArticlePolitical Poetry
Just saw this article and found it interesting to see poetry’s role in a country other than ours. It seems as though poetry isn’t dead as a political act in other places… Enjoy!
View ArticleCheck Out Rives!
Hey all, you should check out Rives. And here’s his incredibly interesting website if you want to poke around, study the way the language changes for a timed performance from the page, see little weird...
View ArticleMore slam poems!
F@#! Yeah Slam Poems is a blog on Tumblr that a friend of mine runs. If anyone is interested in looking at or listening to more spoken word stuff, this blog is a pretty good resource. This video that I...
View ArticleMore on the film adaptation of “Howl”
While working on my Poetry on the Web paper, I found this link to an interview done with Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, the makers of the movie adaptation of “Howl.” It was a pretty interesting...
View ArticleThe Poetry Foundation
If the goal of [the Poetry Foundation website] is immersion in the genre for students and lovers of poetry, the opportunities that this website affords to that end are plentiful. The children’s poetry...
View ArticleResponse to Madonna’s thoughts about poetry
When we had our discussion a few weeks ago about what the definition of poetry should be, I became a little bit frustrated. I don’t think I necessarily have the words to describe, without leaving...
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