#139429 - 2007-09-01 13:19:46
Re: Poets' Corner
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An 80-Year-Old Poet for the MTV Generation "It is John Ashbery, the prolific 80-year-old poet and frequent award winner known for his dense, postmodern style and playful language. One of the most celebrated living poets, Mr. Ashbery has won MacArthur Foundation and Guggenheim fellowships and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.” more at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/books/27laur.html?_r=1&8bu&emc=bu&oref=slogin
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#164629 - 2008-04-03 20:50:20
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#177776 - 2008-07-23 10:22:33
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New Poet Laureate: Kay Ryan "On July 17, Kay Ryan was appointed the 16th Poet Laureate of the United States. About her work, J. D. McClatchy has said: "She is an anomaly in today's literary culture: as intense and elliptical as Dickinson, as buoyant and rueful as Frost." A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Ryan will be featured in the upcoming Poets Forum in November." -Poets.org. Death by Fruit
Kay Ryan
Only the crudest
of the vanitas set
ever thought you had to get
a skull into the picture
whether you needed
its tallowy color
near the grapes or not.
Others, stopping to consider
shapes and textures,
often discovered that
eggs or aubergines
went better, or leeks,
or a plate of string beans.
A skull is so dominant.
It takes so much
bunched up drapery,
such a ponderous
display of ornate cutlery,
just to make it less prominent.
The greatest masters
preferred the subtlest vanitas,
modestly trusting to fruit baskets
to whisper ashes to ashes,
relying on the poignant exactness
of oranges to release
like a citrus mist
the always fresh fact
of how hard we resist
how briefly we’re pleased.
-Partisan Review, PR 3/2000, Volume LXVII Number 3
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#330784 - 2010-02-03 22:26:04
Re: Poets' Corner
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Everyone is a poet. They might not know it...
Words are the all seeds you need. Plant one, for a poem, and grow it for a time... give it water and let it feed...no need to worry 'bout rhyme... and when it is it tall and it is flowering... here is a corner to show it... where it can speak or shout or sing.
Come on guys, do your thing.
Well, I hope that improvisation served to break the ice.
Chris has agree to help us out with this tread and I am looking forward to much fun.
So... poetry needed :)
No sagas, no epics, however. Sonnets, limericks, haiku, free verse, prose poems, epitaphs... are hereby solicited.
And no poem is too short, friends. For instance:
Lines Upon Milk Spilled On the Floor
He wept.
She swept.
Nor is any poem too silly, I hasten to add (ever try sweeping milk?). YEAH Let's get this up and running again. How about more poetry from the members? Here's a poem I wrote for a friend whose family is her worst enemy. He caresShe suffers silently sequestered in her mind
Those who should care - don't
From her very beginnings, she knew
Knew things others didn't
But He cares
She loves, she cares, she's concerned
When others look the other way
She pierces the ether of unwanted consciousness
Eyes of compassion seeking happiness
But He cares
Her mind excels, an ebullience of thought
Clarity resounds in her words
Cerebral joy exudes in her presence
Oh, what joy ideas share with each other
But he cares
Sometimes sadness shrouds her
Tears flow inward, washing her joy away
But she stands tall agaainst the tide
Things sometimes don't look providential
He cares.Alex
Edited by abelisle (2010-02-03 22:26:37)
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#330789 - 2010-02-03 22:32:05
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I didn't know that you had that in you buddy. Very good.
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