Somber umber November
The leaves fall leaving the trees now skeletous
bared down to the wisp of twigs, each tree
a whisk-broom up-ended, a tired raker unable
to collect the wet discolor'd umbrous clumps.
Unknown @ 9:28 PM EST.
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Monday Poetry Reading
a u d i o - yours, theirs, and mine
Poetry, Colors, Sunlight, Wind [Andrew Field]
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Emily Dickinson Portal to resources.
Emily Dickinson The Complete Poems (597), Boston: Little, Brown, 1924.
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T. S. Eliot's Waste Land Poems
The Waste Land with Elliot's and many additonal Notes
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The Truth Laid Bear's homepage
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Tortured language: the poetry of human rights
What is it like to live as a poet in exile from your people, your culture and your language? openDemocracy features a special audio of live poetry readings by Jack Mapanje, Yang Lian and Choman Hardi from an event organised by Poet in the City and Amnesty International.
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You may have found my little poem of November 15, 2005, "Somber umber November," too bleak, not true to your own experience of this month. I found a deliteful poem in a different mood, "Yesvember," online at CSM, November 16. While you're at CSM, take a look at John Engle's "Cat Comfort" and "Learning to Fly."
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"Disco on the Decline of Poetry" is a thawt-piece where Discoshaman on blog Le Sabot Post-Moderne is quoted by Jared Wilson of The Thinklings, on Jared's own blog Mysterium Tremendum (whose post is dated Nov14,2k5). I reference the middle-link in the chain, because Jared's excerpt is well-commented as well, by Lars Walker. And besides, Discoshaman's original, "The Thinklings and the Decline of Poetry (it's not their fault, btw)," is itself an elliptical response to The Thinkling's earlier post (Nov12,2k5), "Leithart on the Novel" (Nov7,2k5) which in turn comments on Peter Leithart's essay, "Bunyan, Defoe, and the Novel (Nov5,2k5).
Here's a beginning to my new list of live-links to poems that I found published in the excellent daily newspaper,Christian Science Monitor
â¢Howdy!, by Robert L. Brimm, Aug25,2k5
â¢Travelling Light, by Steve Benson, Oct7,2k5
Interviews, profiles, reviewsPoetry seems to be everywhere these days â on TV and the Internet, used in advertisements on buses and in subway cars. There are readings and slams almost every night in some cities. And hundreds of universities across the US now offer creative writing programs. But for all the attention that poetry sometimes receives, it is still marginalized in significant ways, and many Americans view it with ambivalence or downrright contempt. "What does this mean for people who have devoted their lives to writing and promoting poetry? How do you find inspiration and guidance for your own poetic journey? And how do you navigate through the literary world, which can sometimes feel so very cold? The Poetic Life explores all these questions, from the perspective of a practicing poet. The Poetic Life is written by Elizabeth Lund."
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Here are some live links gathered a week a while ago (so maybe some have gone stale) in regard to
UK's National Poetry Day which extends to become a week-long series of events - a strong Poetry Week!
A googled-page re National Poetry Day: Gurgle
A Canuckian spin-off of UK's National Poetry Day
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The Bible and Its Influence
(Bible Literacy Project, © 2005):
The Psalms as poetry
" If you are familiar with poetry in English, you may find it difficult to identify the psalms as poems. Hebrew poetry does not rely on rhyme or familiar metrical rhythms. Many of the characteristics of Hebrew poetry are recognizable only when the psalms are read in their original language. Alliteration, wordplay such as puns, and the use of acrostics are lost in translation. Psalm 119, for example, is an acrostic in Hebrew. Each of its verses begins with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet, in sequence. That technique is especially appropriate for this psalm, which celebrates the power of God's word in the Scriptures.
" In English translation, however, you can get some idea of the structural technique known as parallelism and the rich use of figures of speech that mark the poetry of the psalms. Hebrew poetry often features verses made up of pairs of lines that parallel one another, echoing or extending the same thought in slightly different language or using inversion for contrast. Here are two examples, from Psalm 19:
" Echo: [A] The heavens declare the glory of God, [B] the sky proclaims His handiwork.
" Extension/Inversion: [A] Day to day makes utterance, [B] night to night speaks out.
[Psalm 19:1-2, New version, Jewish Publication Society of America] "
- by Jane Lampan, CSM Sept29,2k5 sidebar
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John Clemo:
The Poet and the Vision
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. Blogueratura [en Espanol, mostly]
Ekstasis ["Journeys in trance :: meditation :: mysteries::Christ consciousness"]
Subliminal Pop Concept [in Italian mostly, some English-lang poems]
Valspace [drawings, poems, song lyrics]
Poetic Acceptance ["Because acceptance is beautiful and heaven is overrated"]
Struga Poetry Evenings Draw 25 Poets From 20 Nations
American poet W.S. Merwin was the recipient of this year's Golden Wreath award, given at the Struga Poetry Evenings on the banks of Lake Ohrid.
By Zoran Nikolovski for Southeast European Times in Skopje, Macedonia -- 06/09/05
The Struga Poetry Evenings [SPE/SVP], dating back to 1962, are considered the world's longest-running poetry festival.
The world's longest-running poetry festival was held on the banks of Macedonia's Lake Ohrid late last month. Twenty-five poets from 20 different countries attended the 44th annual Struga Poetry Evenings (SPE), which took place from 25 August to 28 August.
The winner of this year's SPE Golden Wreath award was the American poet W.S. Merwin. It was his third time at the festival.
"This is a great honour for me and I am moved," said Merwin. "I understand the award is given by people who view poetry as having the central place in their lives, as it does in mine."
"Together with this Golden Wreath, we are handing to you our best wishes for good health and many more poems that will succeed in their mission to turn this turbulent world into a better and more humane place rather than a place of war-generated suffering and division," said SPE Managing Board president Zoran Ancevski.
Andrea Cote of Colombia won the Struga Bridges Award, given to the Best Young Poet. The winner of the UNESCO-sponsored prize receives a sculpture representing bridges and a pigeon, created by Macedonian artist Branko Jaksic.
"Poetry has proven to contribute to the world's health, the health of its spirit. I am grateful to you for bringing me to Struga where the lake is unbelievably translucent, just as poetry should be," Cote said.
Delegates of the European Poetry Academy, who met during the festival, said in a joint statement that the Struga Poetry Evenings, initiated in 1962, are an impressive example of the broad range of cross-cultural activities Macedonia sponsors today.
In addition to poetry readings, the SPE also publishes a book series aimed at introducing the work of international authors to Macedonia readers, as well as providing English translations of modern Macedonian poets for foreign readers. This year, the poetry of Tanikawa Suntaru (Japan), Breyten Breytenbach (South Africa), Rita Dove (United States), Lionel Ray (France), Les Murray (Australia), Tarek Eltayeb (Sudan) and Hedi Bouraoui (Canada) will be published within the annual edition.
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Huge Christian RapFest 2005, August 13 in the Bronx NYC, extols HipHop, challenges secular counterpart, according to Evangelical Press report, by Tom Campisi
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Shakespeare's Merchant
Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, two of Britain's greatest Shakespearean actors, are to star in a film adaptation of The Merchant of Venice set in modern-day Las Vegas.
The new £20 million movie will shift the action of the Bard's 1596 play from medieval Italy to the flamboyant Venetian Resort, Hotel and Casino in the heart of the Nevada desert.
The new version will keep Shakespeare's dialogue but will unashamedly set the action on the resort's versions of the Rialto Bridge, St Marks Square and the Grand Canal. No attempt will be made to pass off the replica settings as the real Venice.
On the contrary, Stewart, 65, who is also producing the film, believes that America's gambling capital is the perfect backdrop for Shakespeare's classic tale of reckless gambling, greed and money lending. Controversially, the film is also expected to make use of the city's thriving gay scene as it tries to explore the nature of the relationship between Antonio, the eponymous hero of the play, and Basanio, his young protégé.
***More Spear Shakes...
***Yet more Spears, it appears...
*** Beware of Poetry Contests offering big rewards online. A whole industry of these rip-offs clusters around a few people and a list of front organizations with separate addresses they maintain around the USA.
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Enter the name of a movie, TV show, or person and then
click "Go" to get more information about it/them from
imdb.com.
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from Venice to Vegas
by Chris Hastings,
Arts Correspondent
Telegraph, Londong UK
(Filed: 07/08/2005)
All the world's a Shakespeare stage. The playwright's popularity soars as audiences flock to summer festivals, and the Royal Shakespeare Company plans a marathon.By Iris Fanger, Christian Science Monitor, August 12, 2005.
The Bard unplugged on the 'Fringe', by Christopher Andreae. And yet more Christian Science Monitor, August 12, 2005.
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