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National Poetry Month Events: Pick a Poem for Library Hotel

By T.S. Poetry 15 Comments

Library Hotel, The Best American Poetry, and TS Poetry are teaming up to ask you to pick a poem for the Library Hotel’s beautiful Poetry Garden.

If your poem recommendation is chosen, you will receive a gift.* And you’ll know that it was your pick that will grace the setting of many a hotel-staying book lover in the future.

The poem should express a spirit of travel, literature love, or the Library Hotel itself.

What? You haven’t stayed at the Library Hotel?

A limited number of rooms are still available during National Poetry Month, if you want to book your very first stay now. Of course, we want you to do that and make it fall on April 22nd and 23rd, so you can also join us for our Ruby Garden Dreams meet up—complete with poetry workshop in the Library Hotel Poetry Garden, sightseeing, and an evening of readings and live music at International Arts Movement. Make your room reservation soon if you want to secure a space at the Library Hotel!

If you join us at the Library Hotel and would like to get a signed copy of our brand new poetry collection, Love, Etc., of course we would be happy to oblige. Just bring it along or plan to pick one up at the event.

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But before you find a little love, pick a poem for the Poetry Garden. And bring some love of poetry into the lives of travelers, who can make Poetry their home away from home.

Photo by Claire Burge, author of Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree.

*Please nominate a new poem, if you see that your favorite has already been chosen. Only the first entrant for any particular poem will be considered eligible to receive a gift.

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  1. Richard Maxson says

    March 21, 2014 at 3:53 am

    I cannot be there, because of other commitments, but here is a poem suggestion by Juan Ramon Jimenez

    The Definitive Journey

    …and I will leave. But the birds will stay, singing:
    and my garden will stay, with its green tree,
    with its water well.

    Many afternoons the skies will be blue and placid,
    and the bells in the belfry will chime,
    as they are chiming this very afternoon.

    The people who have loved me will pass away,
    and the town will burst anew every year.

    But my spirit will always wander nostalgic
    in the same recondite corner of my flowery garden.

    Reply
    • L.L. Barkat says

      March 21, 2014 at 7:52 am

      Ooooo, nice.

      Is there a translator?

      Reply
    • Richard Maxson says

      March 21, 2014 at 10:33 am

      I remembered this from the 70s reading Journey To Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda, who was credited with the translation.

      There is also a translation by a South African poet, Uys Krige. Personally I don’t like this one as well as Castaneda’s.

      The Final Journey

      … and I will go away.
      And the birds will stay, singing
      And my garden will stay
      With its green tree
      And white water well.

      And every afternoon the sky will be blue and peaceful
      And the pealing of bells will be like this afternoon’s
      Peal of the bell of the high campanile.

      They will die, all those who loved me
      And every year the town will be revived, again
      And in my circle of green white-limed flowering garden
      My spirit will dwell nostalgic from tree to well.

      And I will go away
      And I will be lonely without my home
      And without my tree with its green foliage
      Without my white water well
      Without the blue peaceful sky
      And the birds will stay
      Singing

      Robert Bly has translated Jiminez (and I love his translations of many poets including Rilke), but I couldn’t find a translation of this poem by him.

      Reply
  2. Donna says

    March 21, 2014 at 6:59 am

    Richard, I like that one. 🙂

    My favorite poem in all the world…. Rumi’s “The Guest House”. And, a guest house receives travelers, yes? 🙂

    THE GUEST HOUSE

    This being human is a guest house.
    Every morning a new arrival.

    A joy, a depression, a meanness,
    some momentary awareness comes
    as an unexpected visitor.

    Welcome and entertain them all!
    Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
    who violently sweep your house
    empty of its furniture,
    still, treat each guest honorably.
    He may be clearing you out
    for some new delight.

    The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
    meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.

    Be grateful for whatever comes.
    because each has been sent
    as a guide from beyond.

    — Jelaluddin Rumi,
    translation by Coleman Barks

    Reply
    • Richard Maxson says

      March 21, 2014 at 7:15 am

      I like this also, Donna.

      Reply
  3. Sandra Heska King says

    March 21, 2014 at 10:26 am

    The Journey by Mary Oliver (from Dream Work)

    One day you finally knew
    what you had to do, and began,
    though the voices around you
    kept shouting
    their bad advice—
    though the whole house
    began to tremble
    and you felt the old tug
    at your ankles.
    “Mend my life!”
    each voice cried.
    But you didn’t stop.
    You knew what you had to do,
    though the wind pried
    with its stiff fingers
    at the very foundations,
    though their melancholy
    was terrible.
    It was already late
    enough, and a wild night,
    and the road full of fallen
    branches and stones.
    But little by little,
    as you left their voices behind,
    the stars began to burn
    through the sheets of clouds,
    and there was a new voice
    which you slowly
    recognized as your own,
    that kept you company
    as you strode deeper and deeper
    into the world
    determined to do
    the only thing you could do—
    determined to save
    the only life you could save.

    Reply
    • Richard Maxson says

      March 21, 2014 at 10:36 am

      My wife gave me Dream Works for Christmas and this was one of my favorites in that collection. As with so many of her poems it is a profound truth.

      Reply
      • Sandra Heska King says

        March 21, 2014 at 10:43 am

        It’s probably much longer than they want, but I love it.

        Reply
    • Donna says

      March 21, 2014 at 10:46 am

      Oh, Sandra. Kind of amazing but this speaks exactly to what I am working on, at this very moment. It’s wonderful.

      Reply
      • Sandra Heska King says

        March 21, 2014 at 10:50 am

        Well, that kind of gives me chills, Donna.

        Reply
  4. Nessa says

    March 24, 2014 at 5:14 pm

    The Round
    by Stanley Kunitz

    Light splashed this morning
    on the shell-pink anemones
    swaying on their tall stems;
    down blue-spiked veronica
    light flowed in rivulets
    over the humps of the honeybees;
    this morning I saw light kiss
    the silk of the roses
    in their second flowering,
    my late bloomers
    flushed with their brandy.
    A curious gladness shook me.

    So I have shut the doors of my house,
    
so I have trudged downstairs to my cell,
    
so I am sitting in semi-dark
    
hunched over my desk

    with nothing for a view
    
to tempt me 

    but a bloated compost heap,

    steamy old stinkpile,

    under my window;
    
and I pick my notebook up
    
and I start to read aloud

    the still-wet words I scribbled
    
on the blotted page:
    
”Light splashed . . .”

    I can scarcely wait till tomorrow

    when a new life begins for me,

    as it does each day,

    as it does each day. 


    from Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected, by Stanley Kunitz, (W. W. Norton, 1995)

    Reply
  5. Kevin says

    March 24, 2014 at 6:38 pm

    My nomination is Emily Dickinson’s “There is no frigate like a book.”

    Reply
  6. Ivana Bolf says

    April 7, 2014 at 4:53 pm

    Thank you all for your amazing suggestions! We’re so excited to announce that the poem we have selected is “Notes on the Art of Poetry” by Dylan Thomas, which was suggested by our Poet-in-Residence, Karen Clark. It wasn’t easy to choose just one poem because we had a very close runner-up! Kevin, we loved your nomination, Emily Dickinson’s “This is no frigate like a book” so congratulations on being our first runner-up! Kevin, we would love to send you 2 anthologies of poems to thank you for participating and nominating such a beautiful poem. Please email me at ivana@libraryhotel.com with your contact information and I’d be delighted to send you the books! Thank you everyone once again!

    Best,
    Ivana
    Director of Sales
    Library Hotel
    (212)204-5417

    Reply
    • Kevin Stotts says

      April 7, 2014 at 10:54 pm

      Thank you for the notice. I rarely go to NY, but will definitely visit the garden at the Library Hotel upon my next visit.

      My contact information:

      Kevin Stotts
      39 West Stafford Avenue
      Worthington, OH 43085

      Reply
  7. Ivana Bolf says

    April 8, 2014 at 10:08 am

    Thank you so much Kevin! The books will be on their way to your shortly. We plan on announcing the winning poem and the runner-up on Facebook and Twitter so keep an eye out for that. Congratulations again!

    Best,
    Ivana Bolf
    Director of Sales
    Library Hotel
    (212)204-5417

    Reply

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