152 Poetry Posts to Celebrate April, National Poetry Month
by lizard
This post is actually number 701, and boy howdy, it’s packed with links. By my count, I’ve written 152 poetry posts in the years I’ve been blogging. Some of the posts feature my own work and many of them highlight other writers. There’s truly something for everyone in this accumulation of poetic content.
The poetry posts don’t often generate many comments. One reason may be the sense that poetry is an inaccessible art form that requires a college professor to decode. Since attending UM to get my degree in creative writing, I’ve always felt a need to push back against that sentiment, because I think it keeps people from even trying to read and think about poetry.
I may be biased, but I think poetry is a vital part of the human experience. For me, there is a profound sense of satisfaction when lines arrive and fall into place. I can’t imagine not being able to write—when I go too long without writing, I get a bit twitchy.
I am very grateful to have this forum to push poetry on y’all. Thanks for reading, and stay tuned for more!
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Allen Ginsberg and Marshall Jones
Christmas Caroling Current Events
Full Size Patter Now Available!
Paul Krugman Wants to Know What Happened
Copyright, Plagiarism and Litigation
Poet Kofi Awoonor Killed in Nairobi
Charles Bukowski or Black Sparrow’s John Martin?
Monsanto, Sylvia Plath and Bees
Clinton Group Philosophy Statement
Brother Enemy, Poems of the Korean War
Corporate Media, Poverty, and How Poetry Can Save America
Landscape at the End of the Century
Douglas Ernst And Liberal Arts
Daniel Berrigan, Renegade Jesuit
Letters To Wendy’s, Tweets From @robdelaney
#FiascoGate And A Drone Poem By Michael Robbins
9/11, Arab Fall, And A Poem For Asmaa Mahfouz
Kim Addonizio, From 9/11 To M.F.A.
War On Drugs, Caravan For Peace
AND MORE!
The Politics of Poop and Transients
Hitchens, Iraq, and a Poem by Tadeusz Różewicz
Doing My Part to Save Capitalism
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April 4, 2014 at 7:09 am
Poets Keats and Lord Byron died and Saint Peter said that, sadly, he had but one room for poets in heaven. To determine which one, Saint Peter asked them to write a poem in sixty-seconds using the word Timbuktu.
Keats wrote:
As I was walking on the shore
listening to the ocean roar
A sailing ship came into view
Destination—Timbuktu.
Lord Byron wrote
As Tim and I astrolling went,
We spied three maidens in a tent.
Since they were three and we were two,
I bukt one and Tim bukt two.
April 6, 2014 at 9:48 pm
Thank you! I linked to your links at Poetry Express: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Poetryexpress/530883920286487?ref=hl
April 7, 2014 at 7:22 am
I appreciate that, J.J. Kai, thank you.