Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Poetic Obituaries: Newspapers mocked him with punning headlines,

such as "O volk! Terre'Blanche is back again". Had he been less of a buffoon, South Africa's road to democracy might have been bloodier.

In the late 1990s he released a CD on which he read his own poems. They were packed with images of wide farms, dry riverbeds, windswept veld, frolicking gemsbok and scratching guinea fowl. Even the birds were better off than Afrikaners, he grumbled: "Even the marsh-lourie has his sleeping-place and his fellows, his lourie-people." How far, he wondered, would he have to travel to find his own volkstaat?

from The Economist: Eugene Terre'Blanche

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Poetic Obituaries: [Dorothy Willis] was active as a Girl Scouts leader,

and in the American Association of University Women and Officers Wives Club. She painted and wrote poetry, enjoyed the symphony and travelogues, and was an ardent fan of Ohio State football.

from Chillicothe Gazette: Dorothy (Friedman) Willis

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Poetic Obituaries: "Tom was truly the Bard of the Chesapeake,

Chesapeake Born and Chesapeake Free," [Gov. Martin] O'Malley said in the statement [about Tom Wisner]. "His life's work and his life's hope was to bring a new era in our relationship to the land and the waters of the Bay. . . . Maryland will miss his heart, his voice, his poetry, his love and his passion for the beauty of creation.

"The river moves on, and bids us to follow her."

from The Recorder: 'Bard of the Chesapeake' dies

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Tuesday, April 06, 2010

April 6th Poetic Ticker Clicking

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April 6th forum announcement

Dear Poetry Aficionados,

Poetry & Poets in Rags blog


It sure is National Poetry Month or, as Judith Fitzgerald refers to it in her column, Planetary Poetry Month. We begin with articles and series of articles which contain poems. And as Judith refers to what is going on at the Globe and Mail, it is a Planetary extravaganza, this Cosmic Poetry Week.

In News at Eleven, we begin with a series of poems in the Philadelphia Inquirer, followed by an award winning poem from The Guardian and an article about it, then poems from New West, then another poem from The Guardian with an article about it too, followed by poetry in the Seattle Times, and that followed by poetry from the Chicago Sun Times.

That is an abstract of the first six items out of dozens in this issue of Poetry & Poets in Rags. I'd better let you get to your reading.

Thanks for surfing by.

Yours,
Rus

Our links:

IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags

Poetry & Poets in Rags blog

IBPC Home

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News at Eleven: The Inquirer is pleased to present

the work of these prominent local poets. Poetry is an artwork and the product of the author's work and perception; we offer these poems for their value as artworks. All views expressed or seemingly expressed in these poems are not to be construed as being those of The Inquirer in any way.

from Philadelphia Inquirer: Poetry Month
also Philadelphia Inquirer: Seven Philadelphia-area poets to savor

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Great Regulars: The Malarkey

Helen Dunmore's National Poetry Competition-winning poem

from The Guardian: The Malarkey: Helen Dunmore's National Poetry Competition-winning poem
also The Guardian: Helen Dunmore wins National Poetry Competition

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News at Eleven: Last year [William] Notter published his

poetry collection Holding Everything Down (Southern Illinois University Press, 2009), which won the 2008 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Below are two of the poems from that book, both of which have been featured on Garrison Keillor's "The Writer's Almanac."

High Plains Farming

There's never enough of the right kind of rain,

from New West: Two Poems from "Holding Everything Down” by William Notter

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News at Eleven: Thrift

Taken from Alice Oswald's Ted Hughes award-winning collection Weeds and Wild Flowers, published by Faber & Faber

from The Guardian: Thrift
also The Guardian: Alice Oswald wins inaugural Ted Hughes award

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News at Eleven: The half-rhymes that dominate the poem

seem apt, echoing connections not quite made, yet not entirely disclaimed. Michael Spence, who has three volumes of verse to his credit, is a former U.S. naval officer and has driven public-transit buses in the Seattle area for 25 years.

from The Seattle Times: Your weekly serving of verse in honor of National Poetry Month, by Michael Spence

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News at Eleven: [Arielle] Greenberg said poetry and the Obama

presidency were a natural match. Obama revived the tradition of an inauguration day poem.

And his choice of poet Elizabeth Alexander, who composed Obama's inaugural poem, "Praise Song for the Day," confirmed to Greenberg and Zucker that he was not only ushering a new era of hope but a new era of verse.

"It seemed like a really smart choice," Greenberg said about Alexander as the inaugural poet. "It seemed like the choice of someone who read poetry or had advisers who read poetry."

from The Chicago Sun-Times: Obama-inspired poems frame 100 days in book
also The Chicago Sun-Times: Poem: "I Didn't Buy It" by Becca Klaver
also The Chicago Sun-Times: Poem: "Conservative Love in the Age of Obama" by Allison Joseph
also The Chicago Sun-Times: Poem: "Praise For the Inaugural Poet" by Cornelius Eady
also The Chicago Sun-Times: Poem: "Poem For Barack Obama" by Joshua Marie Wilkinson

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News at Eleven: In 1999, Karoline Leach published yet another

Dodgson biography, In the Shadow of the Dreamchild, in which she quoted the summary of the missing diary information and argued that her predecessors, misunderstanding the society in which Dodgson lived, had created a "Carroll myth” around his sexuality. She concluded that he was attracted to adult women (including Mrs. Liddell) after all.

The reaction among Dodgson scholars was seismic.

from The Smithsonian: Lewis Carroll's Shifting Reputation

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News at Eleven: A month ago, Mrs. [Hissa] Hilal was an unknown housewife

living in Riyadh, a mother of four children who, like many Saudi women, are angry about the discrimination they face, but feel powerless to change anything.

Since then, her compositions for the semi-final rounds which criticised "ad hoc fatwas” and compared those who veil the truth to the explosives belts worn by suicide bombers, have spread like wildfire around the world.

Even the American channel Fox News, hardly the voice of sympathy for Arab causes, called her "brave”.

"Arab society has the ideas I have and the feelings I have, but nobody wants to talk about it," she says. "So I am breaking the silence and being the first to talk."

from The National: Hissa Hilal, the voice of the Million's

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News at Eleven: MH [Mark Haddon:] The delicious slotting-into-place feeling.

Does it come at the beginning of a poem or the end?

PF [Paul Farley:] It often signals the home stretch, I always think, this discovery, and it takes you in an unpredictable direction. Instead of steamrolling ahead with what you want to say, things take this gorgeous turn, and you're suddenly being shown the way. I'm thinking more and more that poetry is an escape hatch. You're thinking from line one, "How am I going to get out of this?" As soon as you've set it up, you're already doing a Houdini. The whole thing is an exit strategy.

from The Guardian: In conversation: Mark Haddon and Paul Farley

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News at Eleven: A year earlier, in June 1940,

he [Hugh MacDiarmid] wrote: "Although the Germans are appalling enough, they cannot win, but the British and French bourgeoisie can and they are a far greater enemy.

"If the Germans win they could not hold their gain for long, but if the French and British win it will be infinitely more difficult to get rid of them."

from The Scotsman: Hugh MacDiarmid: Scots would have been better off under the Nazis

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News at Eleven (Back Page): It's all brought to you by Accents Publishing,

Lexington's newest printer of poetry and prose. It's also [Katerina] Stoykova-Klemer's longtime dream come true.

"Our vision is to bring low-cost books to people who love literature but often can't afford it," she says. "So we do it quick, easy and cheap. Every one of our books is $5, and that is how we want to keep it."

from Lexington Herald-Leader: Poetry lover becomes shoestring publisher

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Great Regulars: But it is Hamlet, as ever,

who is the heart of the matter.

He is the most intelligent, literate and gifted person ever to be portrayed in literature. He is, in some interpretations, Shakespeare himself. Hamlet successfully feigns madness, convincing those around him. But his real problem is that he is terrifyingly sane. He sees through everybody and everything, but, fatally, he can neither make up his mind nor see into the future.

from Bryan Appleyard: The Sunday Times: Is art the highest form of sanity?

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Great Regulars: [Leonard Cohen] approaches life as a poet


and I think he's almost unique in the rock and roll domain in that there are many people like Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan and subsequent ones who have a great gift for poetry but are musicians first. I see Cohen as being very similar to Thomas Merton. I was just up at the monastery reading Merton and it's word for word similar but even more Emily Dickinson with those riddled quatrains where each word is so uncanny but so perfectly put together in this little jewel box that can explode in your hand. It's a very rare thing even in poetry because not much mainstream poetry is rhymed and observes so specific a rhythm as his. [--Pico Iyer]

from Jeff Baker: The Oregonian: Pico Iyer talks about the Dalai Lama, Leonard Cohen and the virtues of traveling within yourself

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Great Regulars: After his second arrest,

[Osip] Mandelstam's wife, Nadezhda, led an almost nomadic life, dodging her expected arrest, frequently changing places of residence and temporary jobs. Her mission in life was to preserve and publish her husband's poems. She managed to keep most of them memorized because she did not trust paper.

Why all this trouble for a batch of poems about frost on windows, for example? Why do they matter? I think it's that when we read or hear words that aren't ordinary, that aren't what we expect, we wake up.

from Fleda Brown: Traverse City Record-Eagle: On Poetry: Smarter, braver with poems

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Great Regulars: 3rd green Chevy, mall parking lot

A good poem should have a pungent bouquet, with top notes of oak and ash, a fruity midrange and an alarming finish. A bad poem smells cheaply made, gives off the odor of the ordinary.

A good poet should smell like a stone in a strong wind. A bad poet smells like fried food mixed with too much cologne.

from Tom Chandler: The Providence Journal: Poetry Corner: Did you know that poems have smells?

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Great Regulars: Diane Pecoraro, has always said that

her goal is to craft short accessible poems. To that end, she writes both humorous light verse and poems which are more serious in tone. Themes such as urban life, human interaction, and immigrant issues interest her. She has a lifelong interest in art, so landscape is a subject which inspires many lines. For occasions, she likes to create playful songs and rhymes.

from Marianne Combs: Minnesota Public Radio: State of the Arts: Minnesota Poetry: Diane Pecoraro

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Great Regulars: Mrs. [Alex] Morgan said:

"It is a lovely poem but emotional as well and we hope it will have a positive effect on the area.

"Ms. Duffy has offered to come back to Cockermouth every year that she is Poet Laureate to raise the town's profile.

"It is a wonderful offer and we will be pleased to take it up."

She added that Ms. [Carol Ann] Duffy's visit to Wordsworth House last week, which 50 people attended, had been a big success.

Ms Duffy's poem for the area is:

from Carol Ann Duffy: Times & Star: Poet Laureate CArol Ann Duffy Promises Annual Visit to Promote Cockermouth

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Great Regulars: A poetry powerhouse with a number of

writer-in-residence stints to his credit, [rob] mclennan graciously consented to our request for material to kick off our annual Planetary-Poetry-Month Extravaganza:

little essays on love
& virtue

from Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: In Other Words: Planetary Poetry Month 2010

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Great Regulars: The absence of sun and starlight

affect the shade of the blue sky, which is now only "half so blue." Everything reminds him that he is missing his belovèd, because "Seems lak to me dat ev'ything wants you." Of course, his exaggeration merely underscores how desperately he desires the return of his missing belovèd.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Johnson's Sence You Went Away

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Great Regulars: For My Wife

by Wesley McNair

How were we to know, leaving your two kids

from Garrison Keillor: The Writer's Almanac: For My Wife by Wesley McNair

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Hands
by Jack Ridl

My grandfather grew up holding rags,

from Garrison Keillor: The Writer's Almanac: Hands by Jack Ridl

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Late February
by Ted Kooser

The first warm day,

from Garrison Keillor: The Writer's Almanac: Late February by Ted Kooser

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Molly Bloom's soliloquy
by James Joyce

". . . I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like

from Garrison Keillor: The Writer's Almanac: Molly Bloom's soliloquy by James Joyce

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Mud, Apples, Milk
by Michael Walsh

Of all things to miss, it's silly

from Garrison Keillor: The Writer's Almanac: Mud, Apples, Milk by Michael Walsh

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Pushkin
by Marjorie Kowalski Cole

The old cat sleeps

from Garrison Keillor: The Writer's Almanac: Pushkin by Marjorie Kowalski Cole

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The Saints of April
by Todd Davis

Coltsfoot gives way to dandelion,

from Garrison Keillor: The Writer's Almanac: The Saints of April by Todd Davis

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Great Regulars: When we hear news of a flood,

that news is mostly about the living, about the survivors. But at the edges of floods are the dead, too. Here Michael Chitwood, of North Carolina, looks at what's floating out there on the margins.

The Coffins

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 262

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Great Regulars: [by E. Ethelbert Miller]

April Fool's Day: An American Sonnet

You go to work today and someone enters your office around 10AM.

from E. Ethelbert Miller: E-Notes: April Fool's Day: An American Sonnet

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Great Regulars: That poor deacon.

He didn't deserve that. If he wanted to marry a Jewish woman, surely they could have let him? Maybe they had worked out a nice way of life: two Sabbaths, long discussions about keeping kosher. He asks her if she's ever tasted pork. She admits, yes she has. So she asks him, when he was a young man and thinking he might be a priest, did he ever have sex? He admits, yes, he did. She looks him in the eye, "It's better than bacon, eh?" And then they killed him for it.

from Michael Rosen: New Statesman: One Jewish culture, many voice

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Great Regulars: Again, there is terra firma as well as metaphysics.

The earth is broken by the plough in order to flare gloriously again, and the warm colours suggest crops as well as Christ's redemptive blood. Beyond that, we glimpse some other-worldly shining, a richness not of earth alone. As always in [Gerard Manley] Hopkins's theology, Grace in the religious sense is not to be divorced from athletic, natural, often homoerotic, grace. In fact, it is fuelled by it.

The Windhover
To Christ Our Lord

from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Poem of the week: The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Great Regulars: To celebrate poetry month, and give

just a taste of the range and excellence found within 50 miles of the city of brotherly and sisterly verse, we offer profiles of seven diverse and wonderful poets. Get a sense of them in print, and then go to a special Web site (www.philly.com/poetrymonth2010) to read their poems--and listen as they read their works aloud.

They include a Pulitzer Prize winner at Princeton University, a senior about to graduate from Temple University, a Guggenheim winner who lives in South Philly, a Web-radio DJ and musician in Germantown, and a language poet at the University of Pennsylvania. So get to know them--and hear them on the Web.

from John Timpane: Philadelpia Inquirer: April may be fullest month for Philadelphia poetry
also Philadelpia Inquirer: Poetry Month
also Philadelphia Inquirer: Seven Philadelphia-area poets to savor

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Great Regulars: It's as if everyone were all reading

from the same script. Among a certain set, conversation has devolved into a game of Chinese whispers. One is reminded of Yeats's poem "The Scholars":

All shuffle there, all cough in ink;
All wear the carpet with their shoes;
All think what other people think;
All know the man their neighbour knows.

It is easy to see why Van Gogh would have contrasted the version of this he was familiar with to music. What could be more unmusical than saying what everybody else is saying? There is a place for unison in music, but no place for monotony, absence of variation, no change of tempo, and--above all--lack of invention.

from Frank Wilson: When Falls the Coliseum: That's What He Said: In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically

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[by Harold Boatrite]

Burnt Noodle

Garlic and peppers in the sauce

from Frank Wilson: Books Inq.: The Epilogue: With apologies . . .

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Great Regulars: by Filip Marinovich

Kalemegdan

and you would say when we were walking Kalemegdan park

from The Brooklyn Rail: Two

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by Jeremy Hoevenaar

Slightness, a tight rapture, overturned migration. Everything done in poor light is more

from The Brooklyn Rail: Two poems from Immersion Kick

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by Cathy Eisenhower

that everyone faces the ground on the ground

from The Brooklyn Rail: Two sections from Distance Decay

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Great Regulars: La Hermana

by Monica Rico

When my grandma died

from CounterPunch: Poets' Basement: Rico, Corseri and Wilkinson

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Great Regulars: [Maya Angelou] then moved to Cairo, Egypt,

and during her time living in Africa she was editor of the Arab Observer. She later moved to Ghana and worked at a school of arts, and wrote for the Ghanian Times. During this peroid of her life Angelou met Malcolm X. It was also during this time that she developed her flair for languages; she is fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, and West African Fanti.

from findingDulcinea: Happy Birthday: Maya Angelou, Author, Actor and Activist

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Great Regulars: Daisy

by Alice Oswald, winner of the inaugural Ted Hughes prize

from The Guardian: The Saturday poem: Daisy

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Great Regulars: Mississipi

by Aimé Césaire translated from the French by A. James Arnold and Clayton Eshleman, April 2010

Too bad for you men who don't notice that my eyes remember

from Guernica: Poetry: Mississippi

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Great Regulars: Shannon Rasmussen

April 4, 2010

How the tomb must have wept

from Lawrence Journal-World: Poet's Showcase: 'How the Tomb Must Have Wept'

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Great Regulars: Lust for Life

by Michael Robbins

from The New Yorker: Poetry: Lust for Life





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Door
by Jessica Greenbaum

from The New Yorker: Poetry: Next Door



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Great Regulars: By Niyi Osundare

April 4, 2010 01:48PMT

Someone once called me

from Next: Poem of the Month: April

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Great Regulars: [by Joanna Rose]

Easter is a moveable feast--this year there is frost

from The Oregonian: Poetry: 'This Easter Thing' by Joanna Rose

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Great Regulars: By Jehanne Dubrow

)))) Listen

The dog and I are first among those things

from PBS: Newshour: Weekly Poem: 'Nonessential Equipment'

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Great Regulars: [Beth Derby] plays with her readers,

never telling what this word is that she experiences as a rock on her tongue. Although the rock seems real to her, she does not fear choking on it; it may "just recede into the dark recesses of my throat." The poem challenges us to examine a word we may be pondering, to test it before using it, "spitting it out into the flow."

A Word Poem

from Portsmouth Herald News: Poetry Hoot

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Great Regulars: [Yitzhak] Laor should not be read as the bane

of officialdom, however, but rather as the stern comfort of the Israeli soldier who can no longer pretend to be the courageous warrior; his poetry is both the balm of those who serve only the orders of their own conscience and the prophetic exhortation of those he describes in his poem "Balance":

The gunner who wiped out a hospital the pilot

from Powells: Review-A-Day: Lines of Occupation: The Post-Zionist Poetics of Yitzhak Laor

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Great Regulars: By Mobi Warren

Repeating holy words

from San Antonio Express-News: Poetry: Rosary

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Great Regulars: "The Day You Left//Mammogram"

By Terri Witek

from Slate: "The Day You Left//Mammogram"--By Terri Witek

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Great Regulars: Metrically, too, content pulls against form

where it needs to. In the first eight lines, sense-units overshoot line endings to suggest the sitter's pain chafing against the painter's art, while the two couplets beginning 'but' describe its instruments with appropriate metrical precision. Metre is the 'measure' central to all artistic composition: 'loss' and 'gloss' is not a paradox, but a full rhyme.

[by Dick Davis]

Portrait Painter

from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: Portrait Painter

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Poetic Obituaries: Being driven around in a somewhat

clapped-out Vauxhall Corsa was decidedly less than she [Lucille Clifton] was used to, but she took on a fairly arduous schedule nonetheless. Though tiredness prevented her from taking the hoped-for open-top bus tour of London, she did have her photograph taken outside Ronnie Scott's, another ambition.

Fred died in 1984. Lucille is survived by her sister, Elaine; a son, Graham; three daughters, Sidney, Gillian and Alexia; and three grandchildren.

The last word should go to a poem--from her 1991 collection, Quilting.

after the reading

from The Guardian: Lucille Clifton obituary

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Poetic Obituaries: LTC Richard J.] Flynn taught at USMA

in the English Department which he considered to be an honor. He later went on to be a teacher of Latin, Poetry and Advanced Placement English at Bishop Stang High School since 1992.

from SouthCoastToday.com: LTC (Retired) Richard J. Flynn

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Poetic Obituaries: When Jon Gams, proprietor of Hard Press Editions,

died on November 7th at the age of 57, the world of independent publishing lost one of its most notable figures. It may take some time, but one day the contribution that Jon made to contemporary art and literature will be more widely recognized. In the mid-1990s, his magazine Lingo brought together the worlds of visual art and poetry on a scale, and with an unencumbered point of view, that no other journal was attempting. There soon followed two hugely important, beautifully produced poetry collections: Jim Brodey's Heart of the Breath and Frank Lima's Inventory. Hard Press single-handedly brought the work of these two major American poets back into public view.

from The Brooklyn Rail: Jonathan Gams (1951-2009)

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Poetic Obituaries: Above all, [Bruce] Hardy was a lover and teacher

of language. He was a presenter in the Institute for Learning in Retirement, teaching "Living Language” and poetry courses. For many years, he joined other poetry lovers in the Live Poets Society and Bard and Bagels groups. Several of his poems were printed in the News Sun and other publications, and he recently had his "Children's Hymn” composition published.

from News Sun: Bruce Hardy: poet, teacher, Berea community leader, dies at 91

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Poetic Obituaries: Dr. Jagtar was widely credited for

being a stickler for meter and rhyme in his compositions, thereby imparting an old-word charm to them. He was conferred the Sahit Akademi Award in 1995 for his book "Jugnu Diva te Dariya”.

Other than this, his celebrated and critically acclaimed books on poetry include "Sheeshe da Jungle”, "Lahu de Naqsh”, "Dukh Pathri”, "Tilkhiyan Ranginian”, "Ruttan Rangliyan”, "Janjriyan vich ghiriya Samundar”, "Chunakri Sham” and "Mom de Log”.

from Punjab News: Punjabi poet Dr. Jagtar passed away

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Poetic Obituaries: In many ways, Allen Planz was the atypical poet.

He also was a professional sea captain and commercial fisherman. And family and colleagues knew him as an "emotionally intense" man.

"Allen wore his emotions on his sleeve . . . and he expressed that in his poetry," said George Wallace, a fellow poet from Huntington. "It's part of what gave his poetry power."

from Newsday: Poet, teacher Allen Planz of East Hampton dies

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Poetic Obituaries: [Amrik Singh Pooni] published anthologies of ghazals

namely, Kandiali Raah (1974), Nange Paer (1977), Paani Vich Lakeeraan (1986), Moye Mausam Da Marseea (1991), Rut Aaye Rut Jaaye (1999), Asur ton Sur Tak (2000), Akkhin Vekh Na Rajjeeaan ( 2006), Aakhan Vala Kya Vechara (2007), and Aapay Naal Turdean (2010).

from Press Trust of India: Punjabi poet Amrik Singh Pooni passes away

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Poetic Obituaries: [Charles Ryskamp] began teaching at Princeton

in 1955 as an instructor and in 1969 became a full professor. He was an expert on the English poet William Cowper. In addition to writing "William Cowper of the Inner Temple, Esq: A Study of His Life and Works to the Year 1768” (1959), he helped edit three volumes of his poetry and letters for the Clarendon Press at Oxford. With Frederick A. Pottle, he edited "Boswell: The Ominous Years, 1774-1776” (1963) for the Yale edition of Boswell's private papers.

from The New York Times: Charles Ryskamp, Director of Morgan and Frick, Dies at 81

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Poetic Obituaries: Jacqueline [L. Silvia] graduated from New Bedford

Vocational High School with honors in 1982. She enjoyed sewing, art and writing poetry.

from SouthCoastToday.com: Jacqueline L. Silvia

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Poetic Obituaries: The sculptors were Mr. [David] Slivka

and a colleague, Ibram Lassaw, drafted to assist him. They kept their identities secret to protect the feelings of Mrs. Thomas, [Dylan Thomas' wife,] who had arrived in New York wild with grief and was staying at the Slivkas' home.

Carrying out the job on Nov. 11, the sculptors had little more than an hour before Mrs. Thomas arrived to view the body. Working quickly, they made a five-piece mold of Thomas's face and head. (His poetic mass of hair was recreated afterward by Mr. Slivka afterward in the studio.)

It troubled them, Mr. Slivka said, that Thomas lay there naked: the hotel had impounded his things, including his clothes. Then their eyes lighted on an undertaker whose stocky build matched the poet's. He was dispatched home to the Bronx for a suit and tie. The suit was fine, the tie deplorable, Mr. Slivka recalled.

from The New York Times: David Slivka, a Sculptor and Painter, Dies at 95

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Poetic Obituaries: And in [Eugene] Terreblanche, the AWB had found

a leader who could appeal to right-wing Afrikaners' deepest fears and galvanise them into a fighting force which believed it could halt the end of the apartheid system and create a white Afrikaner homeland.

I watched Terreblanche speak on several occasions and there's no doubt that he was a formidable public speaker.

With his rich bass voice and total command of the Afrikaans language he had the ability to whip up a crowd and inspire them to follow him.

A published poet and former actor, his use of language was a key element in his leadership of the right-wing movement.

from BBC News: Demagogue who tried to turn back apartheid clock

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Poetic Obituaries: [Mick] Vranich was a rock 'n' roll poet

who knew how to swathe his words in electric guitar shimmers, or send them skittering ahead of a big beat. But strip away the sounds of the instruments and there was the sound of the words that also worked alone. And in addition to poetry and music, he was an arts activist in myriad ways, including running a private gallery space, Alley Culture, with his wife, Sherry Hendrick.

from Detroit Metro Times: Mick Vranich: 1946-2010

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Poetic Obituaries: As a teacher at The Sun's retreats, Genie [Zeiger]

created a sense of openness and safety in her workshops, and her willingness to be vulnerable helped others tell their most personal stories.

Genie's work appeared thirty-seven times in The Sun, including ten times in Readers Write. We printed her poetry and several interviews she conducted, but mostly her essays--short but powerful pieces that displayed a great understanding of human emotions and a great bewilderment at life's brevity and frequent disasters.

from The Sun magazine: Genie Zeiger: 1943--2009

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