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The Bat-Poet
Story and poems by Randell Jarrell, pictures by Maurice Sendak. Jill gave this to me as a gift, and it is wonderful--a fable for children and poets everwhere. [nyt subscription required]
The Bat-Poet
Story and poems by Randell Jarrell, pictures by Maurice Sendak. Jill gave this to me as a gift, and it is wonderful--a fable for children and poets everwhere.
Gwendlyn Brooks, Passionate Poet, Dies at 83
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Bastard Angel: Harold Norse
The cover story of this week's SF Weekly is about a radical poet! Exactly what is needed on a foggy cold morning as we suffer a very bad political hangover.
Tiny Words
A haiku a day, delivered by email or to your pager, cellphone if you wish...
Dot's Poetry Corner
Anamaniac Dot Warner does her thing...
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy
So he changed his name to Ed Asner.
Thank you.
Billy Collins in The Cortland Review
"Jatun Sacha" by Robert Hass
"First she was singing. Then it was a gold thing, her singing. And her bending. She was singing and a gold thing. A selving. It was a ringing before there was a bell."
"Happiness" by Robert Hass
Mother Jones interviews Robert Hass
More on Robert Hass
Wildflowers
This is a small film made in the Bay Area. Robert Hass plays The Poet, a main figure in the film, though he appears only in two scenes before he expires from an unexplained illness. The film is pretty, but nothing much happens (though in a high-drama way); nonetheless it is nice to see a poet in a film. And I love Robert Hass....
Michael Basinski's Angel Peyes Visual Poems
Basinski is a total madman, but brilliant. Also a very nice guy. Free the Pixies!
Poems by Eve Louise Tulbert
Eve was one of the brilliant students in my writing workshop at City Honors School. She's still one of my favorite poets.
"He plays the bottom to what a little moonlight
could do while humming the melody in the high strata of his falsetto.
~Eve Tulbert
Stanley Kunitz, U.S. Poet Laureate, publishes Collected Works
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''Even before it is ready to change into language, a poem may begin to assert its buried life in the mind with wordless surges of rhythm and counterrhythm.''
--Stanley Kunitz
C.K. Williams: American Bard in Paris Stokes Home Fires
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"It took me years to figure out, what am I trying to say? A poem can't just be interesting. It has to have some passionate meaning somewhere in it. Or it has to create a passion. And until you do that, you haven't got a poem."
Nicole Blackman
Blackman read with SF poet Tarin Towers at Vesuvio yesterday. Oh My God. Even ill with food poisoning from her sister's wedding she was riveting, stunning, terrifying, good.
Daria Howls
On a recent episode of this show (animated, bitter Daria is a high school student, writer, basicially a prototype of me and my former Writer's Circle crew), Daria volunteers (sort of) to read to senior citizens at a local home. Her chosen material: Howl, by Allen Ginsberg. Hilarity ensues!
Note, this link does not go to the episode, just the Daria page.
More Amichai
"Let it come
like wildflowers,
suddenly, because the field
must have it: wildpeace."
~ Wildpeace
Yehuda Amichai
Passed away September 22, 2000. A great loss.
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