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National Poetry Month 2015 Kickoff
Kicking off National Poetry Month at 7 p.m.Read More
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Another Kind of Heroism
As National Geographic points out, “By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth—many of them not yet recorded—may disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge about history, culture, the natural environment, and the human brain.” No big deal, perhaps, since the human brain is on its way to being replaced by Google.Read More
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Call for Poems
The Pikes Peak Poet Laureates Blog is now open to reading and publishing poems sent in by anyone, here in Colorado Springs, Colorado, or from anywhere in the world. The Blog is https://pikespeakpoetlaureates.wordpress.com. Blog editor, Jim Ciletti, said, “We’d love to post your poem on the Poet Laureates blog. We look for poems with accessible language, and poetry in the poetry, (no prose disguised as poetry in stanza form). ALL Published and unpublished poems will be considered. Here’s how to submit your poem.” 1. Cut and paste into an email your poem(s), no more than 3 at a time; 2.Read More
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Dale Jacobson on Marked Men
[As news items on my home page get bumped by newer news, I’ll post them here where they can live awhile longer. Here’s the latest.] Dale Jacobson reviews Marked Men in Rain Taxi. It’s humbling when a poet one admires finds good things to say about one’s own work. If you don’t know Jacobson’s poetry, pick up Metamorphoses of the Sleeping Beast, Factories and Cities: A Poem in Two Parts, or A Walk by the River to fully appreciate what you’ve been missing.Read More
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Philip Levine—His Living Voice
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Why “The Perpetual Bird”?
The name of this blog derives from W. S. Merwin’s poem “The Flight”: At times in the dayI thought of a fire to watchnot that my hands were coldbut to have that doorway to see throughinto the first thingeven our names are made of fireand we feed on nightwalking I thought of a fireturning around I caught sight of itin an opening in the wallin another house and anotherbefore and afterin house after house that was mine to seethe same fire the perpetual bird — by W. S. Merwin, from THE COMPASS FLOWERCopyright 1977 by W. S.Read More
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Poet Veronica Patterson @ BookBar—Saturday, March 7th
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Louise Glück Wanders Off the Mountain
Many years ago, when Louise Glück’s The House on Marshland was fairly new, I had the privilege of teaching it (or musing about it in front of others), along with three or four other full-length books of poems. Instead of cherry-picking poems to illustrate this or that form, technique, style, or voice, we engaged whole books on the level of theme, world-view, the force-fields created by various approaches to metaphor and tone, and yes, worked to understand what the author intended to say.Read More
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An Invitation to “Jayla’s Dream”
Dear Fellow Poets and Poetry Lovers, I invite you to honor an 8-year-old little girl named Jayla, who happens to have been the great-granddaughter of Linda Hogan, a woman whose body of work as a poet, novelist, memoirist, and essayist has been such a gift to us all over so many years. In November, Jayla was was attacked and killed by a pack of feral dogs on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The horror of Jayla’s death has understandably brought Linda almost unimaginable sorrow. But this invitation is not to benefit Linda, at least not directly.Read More
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Harvard … er, Yale
Yale Sampson? Kenny Goldsmth? (Six of one…)Read More