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Following Bashō’s Narrow Walk Into the Interior
Take a moment to Remember the poet who Passed here long ago Much was made of it So much that it disappeared This is all that’s left Not saying goodbye An ineluctable truth Not moving moves me No one can stop it The world eases out a cloud Now everyone believes me I follow ant muse As it moves across the page Into this poem Can it now be told? Perfect day.
Bob Holman endorsing Dennis Schaardt for the Nebraska State legislature from District One
Subhead NOT RUNNING BUT ...... Several have asked so let me explain briefly for any who might wonder.My background as the Son of a decorated WW II Marine and an American History teacher myself has red, white and blue corpuscles running through my veins. It has grieved me personally to see so much indifference and ignorance about our history and the unique place we have and should still play in the world.Yes! Yes I concede to…
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10 Classically Creepy Poems for Halloween
Italika/Getty Images By Updated July 08, 2019 Some of literature's best-known poets have been inspired to write dark verses that have lingered through the ages like a specter. Maybe you'll find a spooky favorite among these 10 poems, perfect for Halloween or anytime you feel mysterious. William Shakespeare: The Witches’ Spell from "Macbeth" (1606) William Shakespeare (1564–1616) wrote nearly 40 plays, including this one about an ambitious Scottish nobleman.
Classic Poems About America for the 4th of July
Patriotism is the theme for the Fourth of July. Many poets have taken on the subject over the years and their words, even in part, have been engrained in the minds of millions of Americans. From Whitman to Emerson and Longfellow to Blake and beyond, these are the poems that have inspired patriots for years. Walt Whitman, “I Hear America Singing” The collection of Walt Whitman's poems known as "Leaves of Grass" was published a total of seven times during the poet's lifetime.
How to Memorize a Poem: A Poetic Step-by-Step
Reading poetry is enlightening and enjoyable. Every now and then, a poem catches you, captivates you, and you just have to set it to memory because you want to live with it and share its wondrous phrases with others. Yet, how do you begin to memorize the verse? It's quite simple: start at the beginning and memorize the poem line by line. Some poems will be more of a challenge than others, and the longer the poem, the longer it will take to memorize.
CityViews: Support the Arts to Heal Our Nation
The case for investing in arts and culture to drive economic and social progress has been made. Now is the time to act on it. Eighty years ago the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the 1930s was started by the federal government to address unemployment. But the WPA’s five arts programs were its largest, employing artists to create or perform works that embodied the spirit of recovery from the Great Depression.
Waka Waka Bang Splat! The World's First Internet Special-Characters Poem
The following poem appeared in the May/June 1990 issue of Infocus magazine and has since been floating around the Internet. The original authors were Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese of Calvin College & Seminary of Grand Rapids, Michigan. A poll conducted among Infocus readers had established “waka” as the proper pronunciation for the angle-bracket characters < and >, though some readers held out resolutely for “norkies.” < > ! * ' ' # ^ " ` $ $ - ! * = @ $ _ % * < > ~ # 4 & [ ] . .
Tribes’ Steve Cannon is at it again
BY BOB HOLMAN | After being evicted from A Gathering of the Tribes, his gallery/performance space/crash pad, 18 months ago Steve Cannon, the Blind Professor of Loisaida (that’s Nuyorican for the Lower East Side), has settled in as scholar, documentarian and éminence grise. But now he’s got a new cause and his activist roots are showing.
Prayer and Meditation
Tickets: $15/$10 PEN Members and students with valid ID. Purchase tickets here or call (866) 811-4111. On-site sales: credit card only. A wish, an invocation, an impassioned plea. For this contemplative evening of meditation, the Festival has commissioned an esteemed assembly of writers and artists from a wide range of cultural backgrounds to write their original prayer for our time and read it live on stage.
YURI MARDER Endangered Language Portraits
It all started when Dan Kaufman, of the Endangered Language Alliance, walked into an immigration office on 23rd Street and saw one of Yuri Marder’s astonishing black and white portraits. Dan knew immediately that the scrawled text on the photograph was in Malagasy, the national language of Madagascar. And he knew that this photographic portrait carried all the information of endangered languages. People cut off, unable to speak with others, the sadness of solitude.
Underground Xmas by Jackie Sheeler
Out of the packed train comes a horizontal tree, pine needles poking through tight plastic wrap. She’s wearing a raincoat and a frown, the blue spruce hugged in her strong arms like a Roman battering ram. Commuters step aside, all sighs and clucks. This woman loves someone enough to bring them Christmas on the subway, wrestle a tree twice her height through tongue- sucking rush-hour crowds.
Autumn by John Clare
The summer-flower has run to seed, And yellow is the woodland bough; And every leaf of bush and weed Is tipt with autumn’s pencil now. And I do love the varied hue, And I do love the browning plain; And I do love each scene to view, That’s mark’d with beauties of her reign. The woodbine-trees red berries bear, That clustering hang upon the bower; While, fondly lingering here and there, Peeps out a dwindling sickly flower.
I Love Poets: An Interview with Chris Kraus
After an introduction, what follows is the beginning of an email exchange I am currently conducting with Chris Kraus. More will follow in the coming days.
15 Classic Poems to Mark the Turning of a New Year
The turning of the calendar from one year to the next has always been a time of reflection and hope. We spend the days summing up past experiences, bidding farewell to those we have lost, renewing old friendships, making plans and resolutions, and expressing our hopes for the future. All of these are fit subjects for poems, like these classics on New Year’s themes.
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