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POSTINGS: November 2009

webbnorriswebb wrote 1 week ago: This month, we’re featuring TWO LINKS about Bruce Davidson and his exhibitions in New York, TW … more →

Tags: Bruce Davidson, Charles Wright, Crossings, Howard Greenberg Gallery, matrimony, philip gefter, Poetic-Image, Randy Kennedy, Sicily

loving autumn's "fire-ball of proclamation" and london's "alien city"

oho wrote 3 weeks ago:  I like this poem by Amy Lowell: Autumn They brought me a quilled, yellow dahlia, Opulent, flaunting … more →

Tags: Web navel-gazing, Amy Lowell, Poetry

Aesthetics1 comment

codyraymond wrote 3 weeks ago: When I look closely at what I admire about certain pieces of literature I find myself popping a quar … more →

Tags: Literature, Literary Theory, Literary criticism, Aesthetics

CONTEMPORARY VISIONS: Rick Marlatt on Charles Simic’s Sixty Poems

Daniel Casey wrote 3 weeks ago: Sixty Poems, Charles Simic, Harvest Books Throughout this collection, Simic captures what can be saf … more →

Tags: poetry review, Rick Marlatt, Sixty Poems, Harvest Books

traces

translating for peas wrote 1 month ago: I left parts of myself everywhere The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas Whose colo … more →

Tags: words to slip into your pocket, Thomas Aquinas, umbrellas, gloves, Absent Minded

Tadić's Proverbs, Baca's Empathy, and Bly's Prose

molossus wrote 1 month ago: Dark Things, Novica Tadić, tr. by Charles Simic. (BOA Editions LTD) $16 Dark Things is a short selec … more →

Tags: Robert Bly, New Directions, Dark things, Novica Tadic, BOA Editions Ltd., Serbian poetry, Selected Poems/Poemas Selectos, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Reaching Out to the World: New & Selected Prose Poe

Brain Food

Margaret Diehl wrote 2 months ago: I want to lose fifteen or twenty pounds, and every now and then I feel determined, certain I can cut … more →

Tags: Science, Diets, losing weight, What's Next? Dispatches on the Future of Science, Nick Bostrom, crazy about her shrimp

Interview with poet Charles Simic3 comments

genemyers wrote 2 months ago: Charles Simic was the U.S. Poet Laureate last year and has won numerous prizes for his work, includi … more →

Tags: Afghanistan, Bosnia, iraq, Pulitzer Prize Winner, That Little Something, the joy of life, U S Poet Laureate, Clarity, destinies

charles simic | the toad1 comment

gron wrote 2 months ago: Poetry Dispatch No. 293 | September 15, 2009 THE TOAD by Charles Simic It’ll be a while before … more →

Tags: The Toad

Howl as if the Pack will Howl Back3 comments

wolfwriter wrote 2 months ago: He who cannot howl, will not find his pack.” Charles Simic I’ve been writing, or rewriting, my … more →

Tags: following your bliss, Living, on being authentic, On Turning 60, slaying dragons, writing, finding acceptance, herding sheep, howl like a wolf

Charles Simic to Appear at NYU Reading

BDCB wrote 3 months ago: Charles Simic, the fifteenth Poet Laureate of the United States, will be appearing at New York Unive … more →

Tags: Random Cool Things, NYU, Poems, Poetry, Poets

Death and Poetry...5 comments

Daniel Romo wrote 3 months ago: My poetry changed for the better when I first read Charles Simic a few months ago.  It’s refre … more →

Tags: Poetry, Witches, Clowns, Neighbors, September, BOULEVARD, Black CAt, Lives, death

listen :: charles simic

supriyanna wrote 3 months ago: Everything about you, my life, is both make-believe and real. We are like a couple working the night … more →

Tags: Poems

Interview with the smashing Rob A. Mackenzie (Poet)

bevaristo wrote 4 months ago: Rob A. Mackenzie was born in Glasgow. He studied law and then abandoned the possibility of significa … more →

Tags: 1, Church of Scotland, comedy television, Curb Your Enthusiasm, dens johnson, Edinburgh, glasgow, Italy, jarvis cocker

the white room :: charles simic

supriyanna wrote 4 months ago: The obvious is difficult To prove. Many prefer The hidden. I did, too. I listened to the trees. They … more →

Tags: Poems

Poetry Magazine & the Turn8 comments

Mike Theune wrote 4 months ago: There has been a great deal of fuss made over the latest issue of Poetry.  The July/August 2009 issu … more →

Tags: Theory & Criticism, ange mlinko, Caroline Bergvall, conceptual poetry, Dale Smith, david bottoms, flarf, Jane Hirschfield, john hogden

My May Poem

gbem1 wrote 6 months ago: It is 2009 and you and I struggle with the same things we struggled with last year and the year befo … more →

Tags: Personal, Biography, Reading and Writing, Poetry, Poetics, Baltimore, media, The Wire, The Wasp Factory

Happy Birthday...

featherheart wrote 6 months ago: Happy Birthday… Poet Charles Simic (1938 -       ) … more →

Tags: Poetry

Libraries

Caleb wrote 6 months ago: One of the panels this year at AWP was apparently literature about libraries. I love libraries. Ever … more →

Tags: Literature, In the library, Libraries, literature about libraries


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