Years ago, I had the privilege of rubbing eyeballs with royalty. Flanked by an impressive retinue of distinguished figure heads, the fair-skinned and curly-haired king stood before a hushed audience at my university and delivered a cultural manifesto on the artist’s role in creating the juxtaposition of political and religious imagery to benefit and protect society.
But I was more interested in his shoes.
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 […]
The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Kimberlee Conway Ireton. 1 Art Oh. My. Goodness. Did you know there is a website called Bookshelf Porn? Did you know it is a bibliophile’s dream come true? Hundreds of photos and videos of bookshelves, bookstores, books, books, and more books. It’s like Pinterest for […]
The best in poetry, (and poetic things), this week with Matthew Kreider
Rilke also famously said, upon quitting therapy, that he did not want to chase away his demons lest his angels flee him too.
Here are the next six poems from our recent Twitter poetry party.
At the Twitter poetry party, we got into bees and moons and ants and rosaries and all manner of things
What is poetry? Maybe rust, oxygen, or chrome.
There is something primal about repetition, from drumbeats to heartbeats to modern pop music. If you are familiar with these, you may already know something about writing a catalog poem.
Last Thursday night, there was another gathering of the Tweetspeakers for a Twitter poetry party.
Below are the first group of poems coming from our poetry jam on Twitter this past Tuesday. The prompts, courtesy of @mdgoodyear, came from lines from the following: “The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket” by Robert Lowell; “Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley; “Ode to the Confederate Dead” by Allen Tate; “Ode on […]
The whales, the sea, and the occasional dragonfly and blackbird. Love poems to make you dream.
