Showing posts with label american poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label american poetry. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

R.I.P. Maya Angelou

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By Jack Brummet, Lit Ed. I was not a fan of her poetry, but I loved her prose.  And I loved her as a public figure, speaking up, and b...
Thursday, January 09, 2014

Poem: The Sun Plays Its Song

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By Jack Brummet The sun plays Its song On mountains Blueing in the dusk And climbs Another yellow horizon. A pale fl...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Ezra Pound: Canto 120

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By Ezra Pound [1] [Richard Avedon's 1958 photos of Ezra Pound, shortly after he was released from his 13 year stint in St. Elizabe...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Spring has sprung (but not quite in Seattle) - William Carlos Williams' poem Spring And All

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by  William Carlos Williams I By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the north...
Friday, January 11, 2013

Marginalia in a Harvard University copy of Ezra Pound's cantos

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By Jack Brummet, Poetry Editor Ezra Pound, who made all the famous cuts and marginal comments in T.S. Eliot's Waste Land, gets the sa...
Tuesday, September 04, 2012

the needle

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By Jack Brummet, American Poetry Editor This poem was printed in a 1971 Whole Earth Catalog, in a section edited by Ken Kesey.  It was a...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

[in Just-] (spring) by e.e. cummings

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[in Just-] by e.e. cummings in Just- spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame baloonman whistles far and wee ...
Saturday, September 10, 2011

The Trouble With Poetry (A Billy Collins poem)

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By Jack Brummet, Poetry and Classics Editor I just finished reading a couple of books of Billy Collins's poetry (now starting on Ted...
Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Billy Collins's poem--Consolation

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While I don't necessarily agree with the underlying premise (I believe in travel), I love this poem by Billy Collins. ...
Friday, June 03, 2011

One of the greatest poems of all time--Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart: excerpt [For I will consider my cat Jeoffry]

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By Jack Brummet Poetry and Literature Editor Jubilate Agno (" rejoice in the lamb ") by Christopher Smart is one of my favorit...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

John Berryman reads his Dream Song No. 26. You've probably never seen anyone read poetry like this before.

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By Jack Brummet, Poetry Editor I've never seen John Berryman read poetry before tonight, although Dream Songs is one of my favorite b...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

John Berryman's Dream Song 64

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Dream Song 64 by John Berryman Supreme my holdings, greater yet my need, thoughtless I go out. Dawn. Have I my cig's, my flaskie ...
Friday, April 22, 2011

John Berryman's Dream Song 29

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Dream Song 29 by John Berryman There sat down, once, a thing on Henry’s heart só heavy, if he had a hundred years &...
Monday, April 04, 2011

A poem written by an online poetry Generator: The Cloud Endures

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1 The cloud endures like a red sun. Winds calmly rise like a dead captain. 2 Love, adventure, and anger. Work, an...
Friday, April 30, 2010

A favorite poem: James Wright's "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota"

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"Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota" By James Wright Listen to the recording on Poets.or...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Poem: The Odds by Jack Brummet

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1. The odds are your luck Will run out one day. We know this from cemeteries And the dearth of hundred year olds Stomping around Th...