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David Mason’s Poetry: The Movie
A beautiful 23-minute film including some of David Mason’s poems from his rich, subtly powerful new collection, Pacific Light. Enjoy! TRANSLATE with x English Arabic Hebrew Polish Bulgarian Hindi Portuguese Catalan Hmong Daw Romanian Chinese Simplified Hungarian Russian Chinese Traditional Indonesian Slovak Czech Italian Slovenian Danish Japanese Spanish Dutch Klingon Swedish English Korean Thai Estonian Latvian Turkish Finnish Lithuanian Ukrainian French Malay Urdu German Maltese Vietnamese Greek Norwegian Welsh Haitian Creole Persian var LanguageMenu; var LanguageMenu_keys=[“ar”,”bg”,”ca”,”zh-CHS”,”zh-CHT”,”cs”,”da”,”nl”,”en”,”et”,”fi”,”fr”,”de”,”el”,”ht”,”he”,”hi”,”mww”,”hu”,”id”,”it”,”ja”,”tlh”,”ko”,”lv”,”lt”,”ms”,”mt”,”no”,”fa”,”pl”,”pt”,”ro”,”ru”,”sk”,”sl”,”es”,”sv”,”th”,”tr”,”uk”,”ur”,”vi”,”cy”]; var LanguageMenu_values=[“Arabic”,”Bulgarian”,”Catalan”,”Chinese Simplified”,”Chinese Traditional”,”Czech”,”Danish”,”Dutch”,”English”,”Estonian”,”Finnish”,”French”,”German”,”Greek”,”Haitian Creole”,”Hebrew”,”Hindi”,”Hmong Daw”,”Hungarian”,”Indonesian”,”Italian”,”Japanese”,”Klingon”,”Korean”,”Latvian”,”Lithuanian”,”Malay”,”Maltese”,”Norwegian”,”Persian”,”Polish”,”Portuguese”,”Romanian”,”Russian”,”Slovak”,”Slovenian”,”Spanish”,”Swedish”,”Thai”,”Turkish”,”Ukrainian”,”Urdu”,”Vietnamese”,”Welsh”]; var LanguageMenu_callback=function(){ }; var LanguageMenu_popupid=’__LanguageMenu_popup’; TRANSLATE with COPY THE URL BELOW Back EMBED THE SNIPPET BELOW IN YOUR SITE…Read More
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Essential American Poets
Just in case you haven’t dipped into the extraordinary archive of poetry readings and other media offered from free by the Poetry Foundation, here is the latest list of poets included. You can subscribe for free to get periodic updates as the archive expands. Enjoy! ~~~~~ Lorine Niedecker: Essential American Poets Posted: 13 Mar 2012 10:00 PM PDT Recordings of poet Lorine Niedecker with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded at home in 1970. Recording courtesy of PennSound.Read More
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Nikky Finney’s National Book Award Acceptance Speech (2011)
A colleague shared the video below with me many moons ago, thinking (rightly) that I might appreciate it. I decided to post it but apparently got interrupted, and lingered in my “drafts” folder until today. I remembered it today when I ran across a video of a reporter at an NRA rally in the South interviewing a gray-haired old fellow wearing a confederate flag tee shirt. The reporter remarked that some people viewed that flag as a racist symbol.Read More
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Stream Linda Hogan and Alberto Rios in Conversation
Don’t miss this beautiful episode of Poetry in America featuring two of the Mountain West’s most important poets, Linda Hogan and Alberto Ríos.Read More
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Poets On Nature with Cally Conan-Davies & David Mason (Part 1)
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CORRECTION: The Original “An Imagined Letter from Covid-19 to Humans”
Early this past April I posted a link to “A Letter from the Virus,” a video presentation of a poem that I identified as being authored by Kristin Flyntz. What I didn’t know is that the Italian presentation (and its subsequent translation to English) was adapted by the film’s creator, Darinka Montico, from Ms. Flyntz’s original poem. To ensure that due credit is given to the various versions, at Ms. Flyntz’s request, I have revised that post.Read More
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Louise Glück on Poetry, Life, and the Life of the Poet
I remember reading Blake’s “Little Black Boy,” and I remember reading the song from Cymbeline, “Fear no more the heat o’ the sun.” And I must have been five years old, four years old—little … but I heard those poems. I often didn’t know …—with Blake’s poem, I knew obviously nothing of the historical background of the poem, but the cry from the heart to my ear, that I could hear. And other wonderful observations from one of our finest living poets….Read More
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A Review of Larraín’s Neruda
Neruda, a “sacred monster”? Well, ask Roberto Bolaño. And yet: With his new film, Neruda, Chile’s master of the political gothic, Pablo Larraín, exhumes a sacred monster: namely, his nation’s 1971 Nobel Laureate, the poet Pablo Neruda. Hardly a biopic, Neruda focuses on a brief, if dramatic, period in its subject’s life—a fifteen-month period from January 1948 through March 1949 during which the poet, an elected senator and an outspoken member of the banned Chilean Communist Party, went underground, finally escaping over the Andes to Argentina.Read More
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Adding Jarmusch’s Paterson to My Watch List
Two fine NPR pieces—an interview with director Jim Jarmusch, whose new film was inspired by William Carlos Williams‘ poetic sequence Paterson, and a review of the movie—have led me to add this film to my watch list. Poets, Jarmusch says in the interview, “deal with changing your consciousness. … [They] are … kind of magical people.Read More
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Interview with Jim Harrison [Video]
Thanks to my good friend and mythographer extraordinaire Joe Nigg for send this my way.Read More