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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Spring Break
American Horror Story
Celebrity Poet?
Allen Ginsberg and Marshall Jones
Iranian Poet Executed
Denis Johnson
Park Avenue
Montana Gothic
Amiri Baraka 1934-2014
2014
Christmas Caroling Current Events
Snow
Anniversary
Full Size Patter Now Available!
Paul Krugman Wants to Know What Happened
Our Bright Future
A Poem by Ryan Zinke
Festival of the Book
Copyright, Plagiarism and Litigation
Poet Kofi Awoonor Killed in Nairobi
Walter Whitman White
For What It’s Worth
Adonis
Charles Bukowski or Black Sparrow’s John Martin?
Cut and Paste
Free Association
All I Want is to Dance!
Chicken Soup
Pastoral/Anti-Pastoral
Weldon Kees
Night is Simply a Shadow
American Death Wish?
Killing Poets
All-American Poem
Monsanto, Sylvia Plath and Bees
Mary Oliver
Outlaw Poet Rebecca Fransway
Clinton Group Philosophy Statement
Project Butterfly
Brother Enemy, Poems of the Korean War
Corporate Media, Poverty, and How Poetry Can Save America
Frank, Form
Landscape at the End of the Century
Douglas Ernst And Liberal Arts
Daniel Berrigan, Renegade Jesuit
Letters To Wendy’s, Tweets From @robdelaney
Tired
Field Nigga Boogie
Mark Levine
Brenda Hillman!
Football + Physics = Fysics
#FiascoGate And A Drone Poem By Michael Robbins
From Wright To Write
Adios 2012
Matthew Rohrer
Mark Gibbons New Book!
Lars Iyer And Weldon Kees
Life In Prison For A Poem
The Destruction Of The Jaguar
Pillars Of Cloud
The Dangers Of Nonfiction
Absurdity
James Welch 600
Kids Love Poetry!!!
Yellowstone
Wake The Fuck Up!
James Wright
9/11, Arab Fall, And A Poem For Asmaa Mahfouz
Desecration
Kim Addonizio, From 9/11 To M.F.A.
Confessions
War On Drugs, Caravan For Peace
Alden Van Buskirk
Untitled
Raymond Carver
WWI
Patricia Goedicke
The Occult
Damn Environmentalists!
Carrying The Darkness
Wave Books
Participation
A Poem About Parenting
Twofold Consciousness
Laci Peterson Responds
Fucking Nigger
An April Feast Of Poetry
AND MORE!
Adrienne Rich, RIP
Spring and All
Synchronicity
Music
More Cate Marvin
Cutbank
Man Up!
Minnie Bruce Pratt
True Love
Judy Blunt
A Poem for Newt
Poetry as Stress Reliever
Frank Marshall Davis
Nostalgia?
John Yoo Vs. Leonard Cohen
Spoken Word
Metropole
The Politics of Poop and Transients
Hitchens, Iraq, and a Poem by Tadeusz Różewicz
A Tribute
Doing My Part to Save Capitalism
Kids
A Consumer’s Confession
A Montana Trip
Song Writers VS Poets
Ted and Sylvia
The Readership
Coming Unglued
Occupy Language
Roque Dalton
Fall
Dream a Little Dream…
Dan Beachy-Quick
Poetry and 9/11, pt. 2
Poetry and 9/11
The Alphabet VS The Goddess
Misogyny
Beatnik 2.0
Imagination
Montana’s New Poet Laureate
Letters
Woman!
Of Poets and Bloggers Alike
One Night Under a Big Moon…
Another Word for Weird
Atomic Ghost
Nature
A Humpday Warblues Shot of Poetry…
Love
Homosexuality
Capitalism, Poetry, and War
Dealing With Pricks
From Hip Hop to Palestine
Liz’s Weekend Poetry Series
Year of the Rabbit
Why Doesn’t It Matter?
Donald Justice and Patrick Todd
Ed Lahey
Michael Earl Craig
m.l. smoker
Diane DiPrima
Joe Bolton
Robinson Jeffers
Can Poetry Matter?
Poetry and Politics
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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.