As part of my own advise to share poems you like with others, this Denise Duhamel poem I ran across a couple of weeks ago is one I like - thought others might enjoy it too!
Sex With A Famous Poet
Monday, April 05, 2004
Sunday, April 04, 2004
Robert Bly & Naomi Shihab Nye - Appearing together at reading
April 13th - in Austin, TX
Poetry reading of Rumi, with Naomi Shihab Nye.
Contact: Farid Mohammadi, poetry10@juno.com
Wow, I've had the pleasure of seeing them both separately. This should be delicious!
Poetry reading of Rumi, with Naomi Shihab Nye.
Contact: Farid Mohammadi, poetry10@juno.com
Wow, I've had the pleasure of seeing them both separately. This should be delicious!
Friday, April 02, 2004
Thursday, April 01, 2004
National Poetry Month.... Things to do
Poetry Month (April) began in 1996. It is a way for us to being Poetry into focus.
The Academy of American Poets has an online almanac with 365 ideas and things to do related to poetry. Check out the Bob Minzesheimer piece from USA TODAY.
Poetry Almanac
Sick Poet urges you to embrace this month as a way to enrich your own life and that of others by sharing poetry with your friends.
1. recommend a good poetry book to a friend
2. share a favorite poem
3. send a poem you wrote to someone on a post card (even the postman will likely read it)
4. try writing in a different style than usual
5. write a poem in the persona of someone else - different gender, age, race, economic status
6. attend a local poetry reading - take a friend
7. if you can't find a local reading, invite some friends over and have a reading of your own.
these are just a few suggestions - i'm sure you may be able to come up with others
The Academy of American Poets has an online almanac with 365 ideas and things to do related to poetry. Check out the Bob Minzesheimer piece from USA TODAY.
Poetry Almanac
Sick Poet urges you to embrace this month as a way to enrich your own life and that of others by sharing poetry with your friends.
1. recommend a good poetry book to a friend
2. share a favorite poem
3. send a poem you wrote to someone on a post card (even the postman will likely read it)
4. try writing in a different style than usual
5. write a poem in the persona of someone else - different gender, age, race, economic status
6. attend a local poetry reading - take a friend
7. if you can't find a local reading, invite some friends over and have a reading of your own.
these are just a few suggestions - i'm sure you may be able to come up with others
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
stop and smell the metaphors
"It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there." - Carlos Williams
Creativity
"The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture." --Raymond Chandler
Interesting remarks from the novelist Raymond Chandler... Ego? Do creative people really possess such things? :)
Interesting remarks from the novelist Raymond Chandler... Ego? Do creative people really possess such things? :)
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