April 2013
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“Public readings assure poets that there is an audience for poetry in this...”
– Charles Simic, “A Poet on the Road,” featured on The New York Review of Books blog.
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Nothing Twice
by Wislawa Szymborska
translated by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak
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Nothing can ever happen twice.
In consequence, the sorry fact is
that we arrive here improvised
and leave without the chance to practice.
Even if there is no one dumber,
if you’re the planet’s biggest dunce,
you can’t repeat the class in summer:
this course is...
March 2013
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“Charles Simic is a sentence.
A sentence has a beginning and an end.
Is he a...”
– “Charles Simic” from NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Charles Simic.
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January 2013
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December 2012
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WatchHappy birthday to Emily Dickinson, born on this day in 1830.
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“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading –...”
– I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, by Emily Dickinson, birthday girl.
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“I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the...”
– I hear a Fly Buzz, by Emily Dickinson, birthday girl.
November 2012
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“I was asleep while you were dying.”
– Natasha Trethewey, from “Myth” (via the-final-sentence)
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“I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the...”
– Election Day poetry, courtesy of Langston Hughes and “I, Too, Sing America”
October 2012
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A Poem for the Sandy Aftermath →
newyorker:
At moments like this—when there is nothing to do but sift through wreckage, when the universe is scrambled and we perceive that some have emerged lucky and some unlucky, when we’re faced with the puny proportions of our existence—I can’t help but think of the poet Wislawa Szymborska….
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WatchTom Hanks performs slam poem about “Full House” on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.
Good morning.
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September 2012
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WatchWatch the trailer for The Day Carl Sandburg Died on PBS. You can see the entire film on their website or check your local listings.
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“When the cart is empty he sells the cart.
When the cart is sold he sells the...”
– From “Ox Cart Man” by Donald Hall
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“Within the poem he and she—hot, cold, and luke—
converge into flesh of vowels...”
– From “Convergences” by Donald Hall
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“I want to sleep like the birds
then wake to write you again
without hope that...”
– Donald Hall
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