translated by Paul Merchant, Portland During a single month in 1979, the Greek poet Yannis Ritsos wrote 336one-line poems and published them as a collection in 1980.
from The Oregonian: Poetry
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Great Regulars: --Yannis Ritsos
translated by Paul Merchant, Portland During a single month in 1979, the Greek poet Yannis Ritsos wrote 336one-line poems and published them as a collection in 1980.
from The Oregonian: Poetry
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Great Regulars: By John Farr
Moorestown High SchoolThe Giant Sequoia Tree
from The Philadelphia Inquirer: [by John Farr]
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By Madelyn SavitchRain
from The Philadelphia Inquirer: [by Madelyn Savitch]
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By Jessie Siek
Naptime Math
from The Philadelphia Inquirer: [by Jessie Siek]
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Great Regulars: Lightning
[by Kasey Kulesza]
from Portsmouth Herald News: Poem: Lightning
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Really Brown
[by Bob Mangion]
from Portsmouth Herald News: Poem: Really Brown
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from Portsmouth Herald News: Poem: Lightning
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Really Brown
[by Bob Mangion]
from Portsmouth Herald News: Poem: Really Brown
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Great Regulars: Adam Thorpe's fifth collection,
Birds with a Broken Wing (Cape, £9), has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize. It is haunted by "the slight bruise of doubt", by what's lost, secret, or misunderstood--as in this first poem of two about Beirut. While the poet escaped, the situation has stalled. Ambiguity 1958
from The Scotsman: Poem of the Week
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Great Regulars: "When I Think
About the Time the Man Asked Me To Stop Fidgeting With My Pencil"
By Christopher Cunningham
from Slate: "When I Think About the Time the Man Asked Me To Stop Fidgeting With My Pencil" --By Christopher Cunningham
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By Christopher Cunningham
from Slate: "When I Think About the Time the Man Asked Me To Stop Fidgeting With My Pencil" --By Christopher Cunningham
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Poetic Obituaries: In a poem he [WWII POW Peter Allain] wrote to Mae,
he said to remember that he loved her but that every day he got a little weaker and more mixed up in the head."The women we married paid a fearful price too," he wrote. "They would hear the crying out in the night, and hear us screaming as our nightmares haunted us like ghosts. To many of us, it is still occurring 60 years later."
from Bradford County Telegraph: WWII POW Peter Allain dies
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Poetic Obituaries: Ari D. Brown-Weeks, 23, was one of
five soldiers who died in the accident in Baghdad. His father, Jon Weeks of West Leyden Road, said yesterday the Army informed him and his wife, Karyn Brown, of their son's death. Weeks said his son was a talented athlete and writer who liked poetry.
from The Republican: Soldier killed in Iraq crash
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Poetic Obituaries: As well as An Angel at my Table,
her film work included The Audition, 1989, directed by her daughter Anna. [Edith] Campion's publications included A Place to Pass Through and Other Stories in 1977 and a novel, The Chain in 1979.
She had many stories and poems published in Islands, Landfall and the NZ Listener, as well as readings of her work on Radio New Zealand.
from Stuff: Kiwi actress Edith Campion dies
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Poetic Obituaries: Over the last few years, Marian [A. Gerrity]
enjoyed reading and writing poems and playing the slot machines in Green Bay.
from Appleton Post-Crescent: Gerrity, Marian A.
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from Appleton Post-Crescent: Gerrity, Marian A.
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Poetic Obituaries: In life, he [H. Eugene Johnson] wrote
3,000 poems. At the end, he reflected on death, God and faith. from St. Petersburg Times: Philosopher, poet, religious man, lawyer
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Poetic Obituaries: [Kim Mitchell] Kogon is a member of
the Delaware Track and Field and Pike Creek Valley Running Club halls of fame.She was working as a law librarian at the Wilmington firm of Connolly, Bove, Lodge & Hutz before her fall. She also had been a writer, poet and physical therapy assistant.
from The News Journal: Record-setting runner Kogon dies at 44
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Poetic Obituaries: A well-known communist poet in Orissa,
Dasuram Majhi, has died of the waterborne disease cholera, which officials say has already killed over 140 people in three tribal-majority districts of the state.
from Earthtimes.org: Leftist Orissa poet dies of cholera
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from Earthtimes.org: Leftist Orissa poet dies of cholera
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Poetic Obituaries: The College alumni include the poets
Desmond O'Grady and John Liddy. Mrs. [Nora] McNamara helped edit and publish the nascent literary efforts of both these poets.from Limerick Post: Late Nora McNamara changed face of education in Limerick
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Poetic Obituaries: [Donald Plucknett] enjoyed traveling,
reading and writing on a wide range of subjects, especially genealogy. He also loved singing, writing and performing music.In 1989, he published a book of poetry, "The Roof Only Leaked When It Rained," which recalled his days in Nebraska.
from The Washington Post: Tropical Agriculture Expert Donald Plucknett, 75
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Poetic Obituaries: Recently he'd spend many hours
on his daughter Lisa's farm in York, sitting under a shade tree and watching the horses in the field, the rooster in the garden, and the goats playing in their pen.
Edward [Schenker] was an avid reader. Poetry brought him great joy and he often quoted wisdom from his favorite poets: Longfellow, Kipling and Emerson.
from Foster's: Edward Schenker
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Edward [Schenker] was an avid reader. Poetry brought him great joy and he often quoted wisdom from his favorite poets: Longfellow, Kipling and Emerson.
from Foster's: Edward Schenker
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Poetic Obituaries: What set her apart
as being an unusual artist is that her works were also accompanied by her poems which echo the theme of the paintings. Gussie [Loftin Townsley] has been quoted as saying, "I get something on my mind . . . after a while it'll get so it bugs me and it won't turn loose until I paint it. I've lost more sleep trying to figure out how to tell a story on canvas."
from The Town Talk: Gussie Loftin Townsley
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Poetic Obituaries: As a boy, he [J.H. "Adam" Watson] learned
a vast amount of English poetry, apparently because his mother, who never mastered Spanish, had no idea what else to teach him.from The Washington Post: J.H. Watson, 93; British Envoy, Scholar
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Poetic Obituaries: PNP Chairman Robert Pickersgill says
Councillor [Jean] White, who was elected to the Clarendon Parish Council in 2003, wore her different portfolio hats with distinction.
He also lauded her as a mother of the Spaldings community who wrote poetry and songs and led the Spaldings Primary School to win several medals at Jamaica Cultural Development Commission competitions over several years
from Radio Jamaica: PNP Councillor dies suddenly
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He also lauded her as a mother of the Spaldings community who wrote poetry and songs and led the Spaldings Primary School to win several medals at Jamaica Cultural Development Commission competitions over several years
from Radio Jamaica: PNP Councillor dies suddenly
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
September 11th forum announcement
Dear Poetry Aficionados,
Poetry & Poets in Rags
The spectacular, once-in-a-lifetime Jack Kerouac phenomenon blazes exponentially this week. Writers from all over the world are taking a look at On the Road and the Beat poets, but especially Kerouac. There can be no question at this point, that On the Road is the most impactful piece of American literature ever, and that Kerouac's supernova outshines all other literary stars of America. Just as we today look at the Ancient Greeks, those many centuries from now, if the earth is still around, Kerouac will be so studied, for his mind, his merit, and his influence.
But, was On the Road Kerouac's best novel? Was it not very well-written, or is it literature's answer to Mozart's music? Was it poetry? Should it have been a memoir? Should it, rather, be considered travel writing? Is it fiction? Or is it non-fiction with the names changed? Doesn't anybody know Jack? But, doesn't anyone know the Road? Maybe not, but cases for each of these questions are made, and made very well, in the articles we have this week.
Our first four stories in News at Eleven address either Kerouac or the Beats. Indeed, our Back Page has poetry by Philomene Long. In Great Regulars, Sarah Crown gives us a poem by Lew Welch. Long and Welch: Beat poets. Also in Great Regulars, Jeffrey Brown has an excellent interview on Kerouac, while Meghan O'Rourke has current input from people who knew him personally. We'll find out from her, if Jack was the perfect gentleman. But, we begin with the answer to the question: Did Jack Kerouac find God?
Speaking of travel writers, be sure to check out the article on poet David Kirby in News at Eleven. And speaking of identity crises, we have two poems in Great Regulars that are titled as essays. And what about the coincidence that both David Biespiel and Robert Pinsky give us poems by Stanley Plumly with comment. Take advantage of this.
Also, I want to note for all you IBPC members, that as of yesterday, Maurya Simon cannot judge this month as well, and Deb Bogen will repeat for us. (Thank you, Maurya. Thank you, Deb.)
Yours,
Rus
Our links:
IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags
Poetry & Poets in Rags blog
IBPC Home
IBPC Newswire
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Poetry & Poets in Rags
The spectacular, once-in-a-lifetime Jack Kerouac phenomenon blazes exponentially this week. Writers from all over the world are taking a look at On the Road and the Beat poets, but especially Kerouac. There can be no question at this point, that On the Road is the most impactful piece of American literature ever, and that Kerouac's supernova outshines all other literary stars of America. Just as we today look at the Ancient Greeks, those many centuries from now, if the earth is still around, Kerouac will be so studied, for his mind, his merit, and his influence.
But, was On the Road Kerouac's best novel? Was it not very well-written, or is it literature's answer to Mozart's music? Was it poetry? Should it have been a memoir? Should it, rather, be considered travel writing? Is it fiction? Or is it non-fiction with the names changed? Doesn't anybody know Jack? But, doesn't anyone know the Road? Maybe not, but cases for each of these questions are made, and made very well, in the articles we have this week.
Our first four stories in News at Eleven address either Kerouac or the Beats. Indeed, our Back Page has poetry by Philomene Long. In Great Regulars, Sarah Crown gives us a poem by Lew Welch. Long and Welch: Beat poets. Also in Great Regulars, Jeffrey Brown has an excellent interview on Kerouac, while Meghan O'Rourke has current input from people who knew him personally. We'll find out from her, if Jack was the perfect gentleman. But, we begin with the answer to the question: Did Jack Kerouac find God?
Speaking of travel writers, be sure to check out the article on poet David Kirby in News at Eleven. And speaking of identity crises, we have two poems in Great Regulars that are titled as essays. And what about the coincidence that both David Biespiel and Robert Pinsky give us poems by Stanley Plumly with comment. Take advantage of this.
Also, I want to note for all you IBPC members, that as of yesterday, Maurya Simon cannot judge this month as well, and Deb Bogen will repeat for us. (Thank you, Maurya. Thank you, Deb.)
Yours,
Rus
Our links:
IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags
Poetry & Poets in Rags blog
IBPC Home
IBPC Newswire
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News at Eleven: Asked, late in his life,
what On the Road was actually about, Jack Kerouac replied, "It was really a story about two Catholic buddies roaming the country in search of God. And we found him." from Weekly Dig: On the Road at 50
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News at Eleven: I didn't eat. I hardly slept.
When I finished the book a first time, I read it again. And again. At some point during those fateful days in 1993, my life changed forever. Losing myself in "On the Road" finally enabled me to see why the entire town of Northport was so enamored with Jack Kerouac—in addition to being an epic local character, the guy was like Mozart with words.
from World Hum: Kerouac! Kerouac! Kerouac!
also World Hum: Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road': 22 Great Links
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News at Eleven: According to Kerouac,
a Times Square hustler called Herbert Huncke coined the term. Kerouac said: "Huncke appeared to us and said 'I'm beat' with radiant light shining out of his despairing eyes...a word perhaps brought from some Midwest carnival or junk cafeteria." Gary Snyder said: "I'm not a Beat poet. I never did know exactly what was meant by the term Beats."from The Guardian: theblogbooks: Do we need to keep the Beats in their box?
also The Guardian: theblogbooks: Beats week
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News at Eleven: As he listened Wednesday to different voices
begin a marathon reading of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," Kerouac fan Frank Wagner found each reader sparked a similar reaction.
"I found myself tapping my foot," Wagner said. "You get the rhythm, you get the feel, you get the beat."
from San Francisco Chronicle: 'On the Road' Marathon Honors Kerouac
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"I found myself tapping my foot," Wagner said. "You get the rhythm, you get the feel, you get the beat."
from San Francisco Chronicle: 'On the Road' Marathon Honors Kerouac
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News at Eleven: The works are titled
"Evening and Night on Primrose Hill" "To a Tramp Met in the Holidays in Monmouthshire" and "Enchantment". All three were published, unsigned, in the school magazine, The Gresham, between 1922 and 1925, when Auden was a clever, pink-faced 15-year-old. Two of them are among the earliest poems he ever wrote. But all three shed light on his major influences and the state of his adolescent mind.from The Independent: Auden: The lost poems
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News at Eleven: Belfast poet Michael Longley
has been appointed the new Professor of Poetry for Ireland.The writer, who was born in 1939, is the fourth person to hold the post.
from BBC News: Longley new professor of poetry
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News at Eleven: "I have friends who are married to lawyers
and medical professionals, and I don't know how they can live with someone who is not a poet. I never have to explain to someone else when I suddenly disappear into a room to write a poem or take off to Macon to ride around town with Sam and Dave's horn-player. She knows exactly what I'm doing because she does the same thing."from Tallahassee Democrat: The omnivorous poet
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News at Eleven: ("Beauty had to fail at something/
in order to be really beautiful/why not at you?") Others, on the other hand, brilliantly encapusulate vague youthful drives. "Words can't be separated from their semantics," says Ann Cotten.from signandsight.com: The impertinent muse
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News at Eleven: Does it matter?--losing your sight? . . .
There's such splendid work for the blind; And people will always be kind,
As you sit on the terrace remembering
And turning your face to the light.
Sassoon's poetry, like that of Owen and Edward Thomas, or the memoirs of Robert Graves and Edmund Blunden, affirms its authority through the tense meeting of duty and doubt. Above all, we value it, almost a century on, as the work of a man who was there, as something beautifully crafted, coolly observant and morally irrefutable.
from The Guardian: In the line of fire
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News at Eleven: As it turns out, Alabama
has an authentic, vibrant modern poetic culture that would be the envy of any state, a fact that "Whatever Remembers Us" demonstrates in forceful and convincing fashion. There are over 150 selections in the anthology (by far the majority by Alabamians), most dating from the last 50 years.from Press-Register: 'Whatever Remembers Us' gives state poetry a magnificent showcase
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News at Eleven (Back Page): We want to present some
of the many Philomene Long poems that have appeared in the Mirror, however, since they are lengthy (and brilliant, of course), some have been edited. It's not that we want to mess with the great words of the great Beat Queen of Venice, it's just that we want to print a nice sampling of her work. We truly hope Philomene, wherever she is, is okay with that.from Santa Monica Mirror: In the Words of Philomene Long
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Great Regulars: For Plumly, who was born in Ohio
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in 1939, the luminous moments of a poet's personal history are always gestating in the imagination. "Silent Heart Attack" is a wonderful example of this sort of gestation. The poem begins with an assessment about silence as "another kind of violence"--a provocative claim, to be sure, and one that asks the question, what is the nature of silence exactly?from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: Poetry
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Great Regulars: Audrey Sprenger: Part of the reason Kerouac,
you know, I think had trouble fitting into the academy and the publishing world in the beginning had to do with the fact that they didn't quite know where to put him. He was, like I mentioned, an incredibly disciplined, accomplished writer who could write in any genre, yet who, at the same time, decided to try and defy the rules and play with the rulesfrom Jeffrey Brown: PBS: Newshour: Kerouac's "On the Road" 50th Anniversary Celebrated
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Great Regulars: "I don't know what marriages are like
in general," she [Joyce Carol Oates] says, "but there are many things which I don't talk about with my husband. We discuss practical problems, but I wouldn't sit down with him and talk about the distant past. It's somewhat in contrast to other Americans, who feel that they have to confess things, but I'm really not like that. It all comes out in the writing; that's enough. And my husband doesn't read my writing either."from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: The grandmother of invention
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Has the shortlist lived up to the promise of the longlist? And what about the inclusion of McEwan? To my mind, On Chesil Beach is a very slender book for a Booker shortlistee (though perhaps that's sizeist of me).
from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: theblogbooks: Here it is: the Booker shortlist
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As Billy [Mills] points out, this poem reveals a clear debt to [William Carlos] Williams' 'This is Just to Say', particularly in the final lines, and in the cleanness and simplicity of the language, too. What do you think of it?
Anecdote of Tangerines by Lew Welch
from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Poem of the week
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In "River-doors", he [Sean O'Brien] describes the "foul yawn of low tide" working its way into "estuarine polyps and leathery excrescences", the viscosity of his language providing a gratifying echo of the foetid water's slurp and suck.
from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Water, water everywhere
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Great Regulars: Sometimes faintly amusing,
but more often simply poignant, these three-line stories were exercises in compression. "On the bowling lawn a stroke levelled M André, 75, of Levalloi. While his ball was still rolling he was no more."from James Fenton: The Guardian: Not with a bang
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Great Regulars: When other poets were being grouped
in schools of poetry through poetic theory, Frost objected to being included in any group, claiming that he was a lone wolf. He felt that if poets needed that kind of thing, they should do it, but he preferred to remain independent.from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Robert Frost
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In the third quatrain, the speaker offers another comparison of the fickleness of fame and favor. Warriors who have fought many winning battles are held in high esteem, but when one defeat comes, the warrior loses all of his accolades: "from the book of honour" he is erased.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 25
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Great Regulars: [Will] Brown, the Cloudy Day Art podcaster,
enjoys the accessibility of the medium, but he doesn't consider it his mission as a podcaster to circumvent traditional poetry forums."Our foremost goal as poets who podcast, blog, and self-publish should be to simply connect people to poetry. Anything else that results is just the fruits of the seed we are planting," Brown says.
from Katie Haegele: The Philadelphia Inquirer: Podcast options aplenty for poetry
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Great Regulars: The cycle of love, marriage, infidelity,
anger, recrimination, forgiveness, mistrust, can always lead back to love, only for the cycle to begin again. MacNolia is talking to her husband, John, who, as I understand it, has become an eponym for "appetite,/Lack of trust" and "lust and lies".
from Frieda Hughes: The Times: Vicious circle
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Great Regulars: Poem: "Late For Summer Weather"
by William Carlos Williams, from The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: Volume 1 1909–1939.from Garrison Keillor: The Writer's Almanac: For the week of September 10, 2007
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Great Regulars: Our poet this week is 16-year-old
Devon Regina DeSalva of Los Angeles, California, who says she wrote this poem to get back at her mother, only to find that her mother loved the poem.Snip Your Hair
from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 128
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Great Regulars: No one seems to realize
how conventional we all were--we all came from such Victorian houses. Jack was the kid of immigrants. He and Neal were perfect gentlemen. They respected women. Old-fashioned values were part of their consciousness. [--Carolyn Cassady]from Meghan O'Rourke: Slate: On the Road Again
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How differently do you think On the Road would be regarded today if it had been called a memoir when it was published? Evaluated as a traditional novel, it has plenty of failings of characterization and plot. One of the strangest things about On the Road as a novel is how little we know about Sal Paradise, how little the "I" actually speaks (in conversation) or self-interrogates; he is, rather, an "eye."
from Meghan O'Rourke: Slate: On the Road, Revisited
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Great Regulars: [Margaret] Atwood looks around
her at a world full of dark figures and forebodings, as in "The Singer of Owls", a haunting poem about a man who "wandered off into the darkness" as a boy. "He preferred dim corners, camouflaged himself/with the hair and ears of the others,/and thought about long vowels, and hunger, and the bitterness of deep snow."from Jay Parini: The Guardian: Open and shut case
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Great Regulars: [Stanley] Plumly's tribute
has a similar quality of quiet depths, something like a sublime wryness.Paradox and the relation between enduring stone and fluid life also characterize Plumly's meditation on the great Italian modernist Eugenio Montale:
Hermeticism
from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice
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Great Regulars: Wild Turkeys: An Essay
Eco Poetry Contest Winner John Timpane
After a local paper spotted wild turkeys back in the neighborhood, supposedly a sign of an improved ecology.
from John Timpane: GreenFest Philly: Wild Turkeys: An Essay
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Many people have one of these things - an exquisite physical gift; mastery of music; audience connection. Almost no one, and maybe only a handful in the world in any one generation, has them all.
Pavarotti had them all.
from John Timpane: Hartford Courant: Pavarotti: Three Parts In Beautiful Harmony
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Great Regulars: Sleepy Little Essay on Good and Evil
by Ann Lauderbach
from The Brooklyn Rail: Sleepy Little Essay on Good and Evil
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Three Poems by Elizabeth Robinson
by Elizabeth Robinson
Beggar
from The Brooklyn Rail: Three Poems by Elizabeth Robinson
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from The Brooklyn Rail: Sleepy Little Essay on Good and Evil
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Three Poems by Elizabeth Robinsonby Elizabeth Robinson
Beggar
from The Brooklyn Rail: Three Poems by Elizabeth Robinson
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Great Regulars: This poem has a good sense of rage
about it. I want to quote, though, a piece of advice from Ezra Pound that seems relevant: "Don't use such an expression as 'dim lands of peace'. It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol."from The Guardian: Poetry Workshop: John Hartley Williams's poetry workshop
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This poem has a good sense of rage about it. I want to quote, though, a piece of advice from Ezra Pound that seems relevant: "Don't use such an expression as 'dim lands of peace'. It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol."from The Guardian: Poetry Workshop: After words
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Great Regulars: Bad Dreams Are Good
by Joni Mitchellfrom The New Yorker: Poetry: Bad Dreams Are Good
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Fameby Les Murray
from The New Yorker: Poetry: Fame
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Great Regulars: By Amber Darnell
Bellmawr Park ElementaryAs I swim, I'm floating
from The Philadelphia Inquirer: Your Poem: [by Amber Darnell]
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By Stephanie DoddsStupid Little Bug
from The Philadelphia Inquirer: Your Poem: [by Stephanie Dodds]
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By Coleen KulikBurlington County College
Is Life so Surreal . . . or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
from The Philadelphia Inquirer: Your Poem: [by Coleen Kulik]
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By Scott NickelsbergGlen Landing Middle School
6th grade, one jumbled mess of problems:
from The Philadelphia Inquirer: Your Poem: [by Scott Nickelsberg]
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Great Regulars: Just for Today
[by Jean Whitman Mayotte]
from Portsmouth Herald News: Poem: Just for Today
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My Problem
[by John J. Witherspoon]
from Portsmouth Herald News: Poem: My Problem
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from Portsmouth Herald News: Poem: Just for Today
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My Problem
[by John J. Witherspoon]
from Portsmouth Herald News: Poem: My Problem
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Great Regulars: The Irish poet Eavan Boland writes
with particular grace and authority of the domestic life that was for so long not considered a suitable subject for poetry, giving the realities of suburban life an almost mythic significance. Her new collection, Domestic Violence (Carcanet, £8.95) is shortlisted for the Forward Prize. The skies above Dundrum tonight, unusually,
from The Scotsman: Poem of the Week: Neighbours
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