Poetry Weblog

Links lingered over by a poet....

"The Chosen" by Amy Beaudry
At five, doing a handstand in the grass, I felt a pricker in my finger. I fell asleep and the finger expanded: a light bulb at the end of my hand.

'World's Worst Poet' Wins Immortality
William Topaz McGonagall, who died in 1902, has gained posthumous recognition in the Scottish city of Dundee, which plans to mark the centenary of his death by engraving part of one his poems on a walkway by the river Tay.

Small Houses Rebuilt with Musical Glue: A Word-by-Word with Alice Notley
"The poem, for me, tells the truth."

Michael Ketchek, Haiku
Upstate New York haiku!

He Said Discipline is the Highest Form of Love
A poem by BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG.

"Purity & Mercy", a poem by Robert Gibbons, at the Evergreen Review.
No definitive reason to take the cross-town bus on the coldest day of the year, but I stood there, on Mass Ave., a long time, alone.

Enjoying Poetry
Is it really true that in some sectors people derive more pleasure from calculus than poetry?

"P r o c e e d t o L i g h t", online poems by Lystan Orsini-Fuentes
Credible:

It takes poetry to describe poetry to describe everything you so unusual >>> it can create itself like the universe becomes existence for the sake of endless death >>> it's (life/light) to allow (eyes/minds) (sight/psyche) defining darkness >>> that's all this really is >>>

[my writing student, once upon a time]

Poet Roundtable (adult version)
At Authors on the Web. Features Mary Jo Bang, Billy Collins, Cornelius Eady, Jeffrey Greene, Richard Matthews, Honor Moore, Marge Piercy and Marc Woodworth, Betsy Franco, Robin Hirsch, Mary Ann Hoberman, Paul B. Janeczko, Alan Katz, X. J. Kennedy, Marilyn Singer and Sonya Sones.

Roundtable with Children's poets...
A feature at Authors on the Web. "What got you started writing poetry?" X. J. Kennedy: My third-grade teacher made me do it.

Poetic Table of Elements
Have you written a poem about Einsteinium which no one will publish? This may be the site for you.....

Cereal Haiku (3WA)
Count Chocula smiles

Now that Boo Berry is gone

The castle is his

--Patrick

More poetry by Czeslaw Milosz
CZESLAW MILOSZ 1980 Nobel Laureate in Literature who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts.

Wislawa Szymborska - Nobel Lecture (1996)
Wislawa Szymborska (1996) said poets at work are unphotogenic: "Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines only to cross out one of them fifteen minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens ... Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?"

Szymborska's work was chosen "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality."

In Search of the Present - Nobel Lecture by Octavio Paz.
Past Nobel Prize-winning poets are featured this week in the Poetry Weblog. How is their work described? "for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity."

What do they say in response? Octavio Paz (1990) said, "I begin with two words that all men have uttered since the dawn of humanity: thank you."

Celia White

Warm Wine, A Poet's Day Book

Contact me