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Herman Melville, a Poet of the Civil War

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Mountain sunrsie Melville

Herman Melville turned from fiction to poetry, and his first collection aimed at memorializing and making sense of the Civil War.

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Poets and Poems: Luci Shaw and “Reversing Entropy”

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Cherry blossoms Luci Shaw

“Reversing Entropy” by Luci Shaw demonstrates the poet’s calling to bring order and meaning from the chaos of life.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Year of the Monarch: Butterfly Dreams

By Laura Boggess 7 Comments

star flowers

Laura Boggess dreams of the the monarch’s annual migration and wonders poetically if the monarchs, also, dream of her.

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Poets and Poems: May Swenson and “Collected Poems”

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Flower Bud May Swenson Collected Poems

“Collected Poems” by May Swenson tells a story of a poet who helped shape, and was shaped by, poetry in 20th-century America.

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“Thunderclap” by Laura Cumming: A Memoir of Art and Life

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Bare trees Cumming Thunderclap

Art critic Laura Cumming layers Dutch history, family memoir and a little known explosion in her book on a single painting, “Thunderclap.”

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Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Poet for Poets and Poetry Readers

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Snowy creek Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his poetry. He’s a poet for both poets and poetry readers.

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Poets and Poems: Emma Lazarus and “Selected Poems”

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

Cherry blossoms Lazarus

Known for a single if famous poem, Emma Lazarus was an accomplished poet, writer, polemicist, and champion for the Jewish people.

Filed Under: Americana Poems, article, book reviews, Books, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Poets and Poems: Charles Reznikoff and “Poems”

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

Sepia flower Reznikoff

In his first two poetry collections, Charles Reznikoff reflected the experience of Jewish immigrants to America.

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Poet Laura: The Butterfly Effect—Year of the Monarch

By Dheepa R. Maturi 19 Comments

monarch butterfly on green with yellow flower

Dheepa R. Maturi, Tweetspeak’s Poet Laura, invites us to participate in the Year of the Monarch, a project both practical and poetic, to help our butterfly friends.

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Poets and Poems: Osip Mandelstam and “Tristia”

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Cosmos Mandelstam Tristia

Russians consider Osip Mandelstam one of the greatest poets; a new translation of “Tristia” helps explain why.

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Edward Hirsch and “The Heart of American Poetry”

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Mirror Lake Yosemite Hirsch

In “The Heart of American Poetry,” Edward Hirsch has written both a personal memoir and a love letter to American poetry.

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Perspective: The Two, The Only: Calvin and Hobbes

By Megan Willome 16 Comments

winter morning new snow white trees

With a new year on the horizon, Megan Willome is off for a fresh clean start and a little exploring. By sled, of course.

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By Heart: ‘The night is darkening round me’ by Emily Brontë

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

sunset at Stonehaven Emily Bronte

Emily Brontë holds us Spellbound with her poem “The night is darkening round me.” Come dance in the dark with us.

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, Blog, By Heart, Emily Brontë

By Heart: ‘The Secret’ by Denise Levertov

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woman dancer Harvest Faire

The secret of life is found in a sudden line of poetry. Join us as we learn Denise Levertov’s “The Secret” By Heart.

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, By Heart, Funny Poems, Poets, T.S. Eliot, Take Your Poet to Work Day

“Eliot After ‘The Waste Land’” by Robert Crawford

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Tree in Lake Crawford bio of Eliot

With “Eliot After ‘The Waste Land,'” British poet and writer Robert Crawford completes his monumental biography of T.S. Eliot.

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Poets and Poems: Michał Choiński and “Gifts Without Wrapping”

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Rosebud Michal Choinski

“Gifts Without Wrapping,” a chapbook of poems by Michał Choiński, describes love and desire in the 21st century.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

The New U.S. Poet Laureate: Ada Limón

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Feather Ada Limon

Poet Ada Limón has been named the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.

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Poets and Poems: Robert Selby and “The Coming-Down Time”

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Church New Zealand Robert Selby

“The Coming-Down Time” by poet Robert Selby tells stories in danger of being forgotten, stories of family, friends, and the past.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Britain, Memory, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

“The Perfect World” by Kahlil Gibran

< Return to Kahlil Gibran Poems The Perfect World God of lost souls, thou who are lost amongst the gods, hear me: Gentle Destiny that watchest over us, mad, wandering spirits, hear me: I dwell in the midst of a perfect race, I the most imperfect. I, a human chaos, a nebula of confused elements, […]

“And When My Joy Was Born” by Kahlil Gibran

< Return to Kahlil Gibran Poems And When My Joy Was Born And when my Joy was born, I held it in my arms and stood on the house-top shouting, “Come ye, my neighbours, come and see, for Joy this day is born unto me. Come and behold this gladsome thing that laugheth in the […]

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