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Poems That Go
Incredible site! Incredible poems, come alive with Flash and Quicktime, with sound and image. Check out "Red Lily."
Kim Addonizio
This poet's website is chock-full--poems, book reviews (her newest, Tell Me, is excellent). I especially enjoy the Writing/Life section in which she discusses her daughter, PMS, and nervousness about forthcoming books.
Kim Addonizio will be reading to promote Tell Me in the Bay Area over the next few months. Check her out.
Dancing Poetry
This San Francisco-based festival takes place on september 30 at the Palace of the Legion of Honor.
LINES OF FORCE, by Thomas Centolella
"The pleasure of walking a long time on the mountain
without seeing a human being,
much less speaking to one."
Dojo, by Thomas Centolella
"she taught me
in her small voice
to say the everyday straight out,
without reluctance or shame ---
in her poem, "baby"
didn't mean "boyfriend"
or "sweetheart," it meant
baby, her baby--"
~Thomas Centolella
A Step Away From Them
"A glass of papaya juice
and back to work. My heart is in my
pocket, it is Poems by Pierre Reverdy."
~Frank O'Hara
A Tribute to Frank O'Hara
"In the sacred temple of fifties art, O'Hara's work was like a window that let in, not only fresh air, but also dirt."
Stefanie Marlis
Famous for her "defintion poems". One of the best.
Om Mani Padme Hum
This is an online journal (another addiction of mine) which featues a daily "Dear Haiku Maven", offering advice and answers through this poetic medium. Thus:
Q:
Dear Haiku Maven:
Peanut butter: crunchy, or smooth?
J.
A:
Dear "J."
A silly question.
crunchy is like licking god.
peanuts are the point.
Poems by Khaled Mattawa
BORROWED TONGUE
Maybe I'm a fool
holding two threads,
one black, one white,
waiting for dawn
to tell them apart.
Basho
The lillies!
The stems, just as they are,
the flowers, just as they are.
Haiku Wheel of Torture
In August 29th's entry, Terry Baker plays Haiku Wheel of Torture. Parody, agony, and poetry.
The Daily Bleed is a great source of poetry history and information.
1938 -- A jealous Robert Frost disrupts a poetry reading by Archibald MacLeish by setting fire to a stack of papers.
The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
On August 27, 1974 -- Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics founded.
He’s a Harvard-educated cave poet
“Ideally, I’d like never to have to work. I
know that I would be incredibly happy not
working, forever. But I think that’s because
my real work is not the work for which I get
paid. So I’d be working, I’d be killing myself
with effort. But it wouldn’t be 9-to-5. Poetry
is the job I want, but it’s a hard job to get.”
Jill's Ode to SF using Magnetic Poetry
Using the Java-based MagPo kit (The San Francisco version, no less), my friend Jill made this beauty...
Walt Whitman at Free Will Astrology
"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the
animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand
up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to
others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience
and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing
known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with
powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the
mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every
season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been
told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever
insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great
poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in
the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of
your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body."
--Walt Whitman
Waterfalls, by Eileen Myles
In me speaks
the divine
menagerie
the nectar
the blood on my hands
My Intergeneration
Eileen Myles essay on her experiences touring with SF-based Sister Spit and dyke generations.
Electronic Poetry Center Author Page for Eileen Myles
I made this page when I was an intern at the EPC.
Introduction to Eileen Myles' Poetry
"Myles' work presents a shifting persona, but one that is always responsive, always articulate."
Interview with Eileen Myles
"Of course, interestingly, I did get more attention as presidential candidate than I ever did as a poet. But the
fact of the matter was, it was a poetic experience." ~ Eileen Myles
Exiled (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Searching my heart for its true sorrow,
This is the thing I find it to be:
That I am weary of words and people,
Sick of the city, wanting the sea;
Wanting the sticky, salty sweetness
Of the strong wind and shattered spray;
Wanting the loud sound and the soft sound
Of the big surf that breaks all day.
Always before about my dooryard,
Marking the reach of the winter sea,
Rooted in sand and dragging drift-wood,
Straggled the purple wild sweet-pea;
Always I climbed the wave at morning,
Shook the sand from my shoes at night,
That now am caught beneath great buildings,
Stricken with noise, confused with light.
If I could hear the green piles groaning
Under the windy wooden piers,
See once again the bobbing barrels,
And the black sticks that fence the weirs,
If I could see the weedy mussels
Crusting the wrecked and rotting hulls,
Hear once again the hungry crying
Overhead, of the wheeling gulls,
Feel once again the shanty straining
Under the turning of the tide,
Fear once again the rising freshet,
Dread the bell in the fog outside,
I should be happy! -- that was happy
All day long on the coast of Maine;
I have a need to hold and handle
Shells and anchors and ships again!
I should be happy... that am happy
Never at all since I came here.
I am too long away from water.
I have a need of water near.
Hilary Tham
...is a poet and artist with her own website which serves as a beautiful showcase for both talents.
No Gods Today
crows in the cemetery
who watch with yellowing eyes
the coming of many corteges
their voices crying "all. all."
Four Poems by Jennifer Rose
Terrapin Dream - Word
Williamsburg, NY based artist & webster & poet & photographer & many other things Terry Baker writes nearly daily, and often has pictures &/or poems to share. Listen for the Walt Whitman backbeat in ....
Poetry Super Highway
Enormous, rather overwhelming site, but an excellent resource. Poets and writers with web pages can submit links. Also features poet pages, a chat room, and an annual poetry contest (deadline: September 2, 2000).
Magnetic Poetry
Especially cool is the Java-based thingie where you can create your own...
The Kenneth Patchen Calendar
December is my favorite, but hard to read here:
"Now, when I get back here,
I expect to find all of you
marching through the streets
with great bunches of wildflowers
in your arms"
A Prayer On The Eve Of The Guillotine, By Celia White
I think this is that National Library of Poetry scam, where they'll publish what your dog wrote in hopes you'll buy the $35 anthology. I was published in it when I was 15, but this Celia White is not me...
Poetry Changes The World
This is more like it. Check out the page for my poet-hero, Patti Smith....
The Poetry Harsh Archive
Harshing on Poetry in Motion...I disagree, but it takes all kinds.
Poetry on the Buses
From Seattle, Washington...
A Tribute to Rumi
Some of the best poetry of all time, by anyone, anywhere.
Stanley Kunitz Named Poet Laureate
``I recognize the gods' capricious hand,
And write this poem for money, rage
and love.''
The Question Man asks, Are there too many poets in San Francisco?
Naked Poetry
Poems, interviews, reviews....check out the Sparrow poem, "41 Prayers for Amadou Diallo".
The Rainer Maria Rilke Archive
"everything that has been wrestled from doubt
I welcome-the mouths that burst open after
long knowledge of what it is to be mute."
~The Sonnets to Orpheus: X
Mark Peters at Exqusite Corpse
I met Mark back in 1996 when I was in library school and we were both sitting at the feet of Loss Glazier, helping with the beautiful monstrosity which is the Electronic Poetry Center. Mark has a great zine, Deluxe Rubber Chicken.
Exquisite Corpse
This is the first national publication ever to publish me (back in 1994)...
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