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Archives for May 2011
Not Even the Poem
A poem that plays on R words. But maybe all good poems are plays on words.
Can We Crash Amazon Like Lady Gaga Did?
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Angela Alaimo O’Donnell’s “Saint Sinatra”
St. Sinatra is a collection that is at once serious and humorous, focused and yet playful. It speaks to and about saints who are both familiar and known for being saints as well as those who are not.
How to Write a Catalog Poem (or Not)
What is a catalog poem, and is it easy to write? Check out the catalog poem definition and catalog poem samples, and give it a try.
Nick Samaras’ “Hands of the Saddlemaker”
Nicholas Samaras received the award in the 1991 for the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition for this volume of poetry, Hands of the Saddlemaker. Now 20 years old, it has aged well; its themes of exile, pilgrimage, separation and “in this world but not of it” are as current now as they were then, […]
Why I Want to Write Useless Poetry
There are so many things you can do with your time. I want to write useless poetry. Because it’s like play.
Writing from Words
Find your poems-in-waiting, in these Wordles.
We’ve Got Our Wordle, Now We Want Yours
How about you? Would you consider Wordling, using some kind of poetic grist? What would you use?
Ava Leavall Haymon’s “Why the House is Made of Gingerbread: Poems”
When I was little, my mother would read stories to me from an oversized yet relatively thin edition of Grimm’s Fairy Tales. It had a green cloth cover, and I remember it specifically because I still have it. (It’s also decorated with writing in crayon, but that’s another story.) One of my favorite stories was […]
“Kingdom Come: Poems” by John Estes
In 2009, we reviewed here a chapbook published by poet John Estes entitled Breakfast with Blake at the Lacoon. In the review we said that Estes effectively evoked a sense of both the literary and everyday reality. That same characteristic is true of his first collection of poems, Kingdom Come: Poems, published by CR Press, […]
Cool Poetry Resources
Theron Kennedy at Inside Theron’s Head 2.0 and Maureen Doallas at Writing Without Paper found two cool online poetry resources. Kennedy tweeted a link to 32 Poems, which is sharing 215 favorite poetry books by 43 poets in 30 days. 32 Poems borrowed the idea from someone else, and adapted it for National Poetry Month. […]