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Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Sunday, January 19, 2014

Shane Koyczan - Remember How We Forgot?

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  Brilliant, touching, beautiful . . . . Discovered through Upworthy . Credits: ORIGINAL : By Shane Koyczan. If you'd lik...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Slam Poet Marshall Davis Jones on Our Socially Networked World

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If you like slam poetry at all, or, hell, if you like language and rhythm, this guy is good, and he riffs on the very medium through we a...
Sunday, May 12, 2013

Carolyn Kizer - The Great Blue Heron

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The Great Blue Heron BY CAROLYN KIZER M.A.K. September, 1880-September, 1955 As I wandered on the beach I saw the heron standing Sunk ...
Monday, January 21, 2013

"One Today" - Richard Blanco Inaugural Poem (Full Text)

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Inaugural poet Richard Blanco read his poem "One Today" at the swearing-in ceremony for President Obama . Here is the full tex...
Saturday, December 22, 2012

Wallace Stevens - The Snow Man

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The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with sn...
Sunday, October 7, 2012

“3 AM” – Slam Poetry on Living in the Man Box

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Awesome spoken-word piece . . . . I found this at the Good Men Project . The poets are Carlos Andrés Gómez and Adam Falkner. The "ma...
Sunday, August 19, 2012

Bukowski: Born Into This — The Definitive Documentary on the Hard-Living American Poet (2003)

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Charles Bukowski was a mediocre poet and fiction writer. His work was brutally honest and it chronicled, sometimes in excruciating detai...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

Guante - 10 Responses to the Phrase ‘Man Up’

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The Good Men Project posted this awesome video from a 2-time National Poetry Slam champion, Guante , offering 10 Responses to the Phrase ...
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Saturday, August 6, 2011

Poetry for Tough Guys - Devotions by Bruce Smith

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This looks good - the New York Times reviews Devotions , the new book of poetry by Bruce Smith. Poetry for Tough Guys Summer in Brookly...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

Poem: "Handshake Histories" by Jeff Hoffman

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Handshake Histories by Jeff Hoffman ...
Friday, April 29, 2011

Poem - "Dark Matter" by Jack Myers

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Dark Matter by Jack Myers ...
Sunday, April 17, 2011

Poem - "Scarecrow on Fire" by Dean Young

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Scarecrow on Fire by Dean Young Everything is brushed away, off the sle...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

"The Plain Sense of Things" by Wallace Stevens

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The Plain Sense of Things by Wallace Stevens ...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Poem - Kevin Young: “Ash Wednesday”

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Kevin Young’s “Ash Wednesday” Kevin Young’s Ardency: A Chronicle of the Am...
Friday, April 8, 2011

Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004): A Centenary Celebration of the Poetry of UC Berkeley's Nobel Laureate

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Czeslaw Milosz was one of the truly great poets from any country - UC Berkeley, where he taught for many years, held a celebration in honor ...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Guardian Poem of the week: Showing Me by Sam Gardiner

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From The Guardian , another poem and explication in honor of National Poetry Month. Poem of the week: Showing Me by Sam G...
Monday, April 4, 2011

Poem - David Young’s “The House Was Quiet on a Winter Afternoon”

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This entry in the National Poetry Month series comes from The Borzoi Reader (Random House, Knopf, Doubleday et al) Poem-a-Day celebration. ...
Sunday, April 3, 2011

Poem - "Before" by Carl Adamshick

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Before by Carl Adamshick I always thought death would be like traveling in...

Poem - "Hearing" by Joshua Trotter

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Hearing by Joshua Trotter Mornings after we gave up words, we still loved to lie and graze the day awake watching our old chit-chat t...
Saturday, April 2, 2011

Academy of American Poetry - How to Read a Poem

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For those who are not aware - April is National Poetry Month. I have been posting poetry here from time to time, but I will be posting more ...