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About Angela Alaimo O'Donnell

Angela Alaimo O’Donnell is a professor of English and creative writing at Fordham University. She is also the author of the sonnet-based poetry collection St. Sinatra, as well as prose titles like Flannery O'Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith.

Re-Inventing the Ode

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 31 Comments

re-inventing the ode

Creating a traditional ode allows the poet to use her outdoor voice. It is a profoundly public medium, daring to speak to and for everyone.

Filed Under: Blog, Ode Poems, poetry

Poetry: Mirroring the Unseen

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 3 Comments

mirror poetry

Both poems and mirrors “Tell all the Truth, ” as Emily Dickinson insisted, but they “tell it slant.” Angela Alaimo O’Donnell talks poetry and mirrors.

Filed Under: Mirror Poems, poetry

Haiku: Pierced by Beauty

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 10 Comments

Haiku forbids excess. The poet has 17 syllables (or fewer) in which to say, not the un-sayable, but what can be said. There is no room for explanation, only impression. Angela O’Donnell on the way haiku gives the fleet glimpse instead of exposition, a quick picture in place of a thousand words.

Filed Under: Blog, Haiku, poetry

Make Time for Wine and Poetry

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 6 Comments

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In the hands of the poets, wine is poetry and poetry is wine. Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, together with wine and poetry, invites you to the Feast of Life.

Filed Under: Blog, love poetry, poetry

Poet’s Penance (Part 2)

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 5 Comments

Angela Alaimo O’Donnell concludes the essay she began last week, seeking to answer the question, “What is a poet?“ My Many-Minded-Ness, or “One of These Things is Not Like the Other” Poets are many and multiple, each unique in his or her own peculiar ways. No two of them are alike—so much so that there […]

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Poet’s Penance (Part 1)

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 8 Comments

Poet:                Bless me, Father, for I am a poet,                            and I have no idea what that means. Priest:             I absolve you from your sin.           […]

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My Life as a Cento

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 25 Comments

Cento Poems Lightbulb on Mosaic

Cento (Lat. “patchwork”). A verse composition made up of lines selected from the work or works of some great poet(s) of the past. —The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics Like most poets, I have a notebook. Mine is a chunky tablet, 5×7 inches, with a large spiral binding and two thick boards that serve […]

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The Rose Remembers

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 10 Comments

Human beings have long associated Roses with Remembrance.

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Poet, Where Did You Get that Red?

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 8 Comments

Red Poems and Poets and Red

What is red? Red is Miracle, talisman and charm.

Filed Under: poetry, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources

My Last Villanelle

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 9 Comments

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I admire a well-executed villanelle in the same way I admire a Baroque Tromp-l’oeil ceiling

Filed Under: Poems, poetry, poetry humor, poetry teaching resources, Villanelles, writer's group resources

Living By Heart Poems

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 7 Comments

Rusty Heart Poetry Angela Alaimo O'donnell tweetspeakpoetry.com

I set myself the daily task of writing a poem each morning to my body.

Filed Under: Heart Poems, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources

By Heart: Because You Might Need It Like Marie Ponsot

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 11 Comments

Dahlia Marie Ponsot Poetry 2

When poet Marie Ponsot suffered a stroke at the age of 89, she lost all of her language.

Filed Under: poetry teaching resources, Poets, writer's group resources

What is Poetry: Falling in Love, 2

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 12 Comments

Tomato what is poetry

What is poetry? Any effort to define Poetry (with a capital “P”) in an exhaustive way is doomed to fall short. So why not offer a poet’s heresy.

Filed Under: poems about writing, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources

What is Poetry: Falling in Love, 1

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 13 Comments

Woman Blurred What is Poetry

The first step towards falling in love, of course, is the cultivation of friendship. And so I have to convince my students that poetry—and the poets who write them—are friends worth getting to know.

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Glass Slipper Sonnets

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 46 Comments

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Does a writing a sonnet feel like an ill fit? This fun glass slipper essay will make it (a little) easier.

Filed Under: poetry teaching resources, Sonnets, writer's group resources

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