posts tagged "poets"
Does Love Survive Loss?
“sharp tender shock”
Cool article in Slate re: Auden + Larkin
“Auden and Larkin each wrote powerful lines about love—and then had grave doubts about them. Why?”
drive east til it doesn’t hurt
because
that is where i am ;)
Underground New York Public Library: I love to see your beautiful usernames on my dashboard, it’s like an...
This is my favourite thing today.
I love to see your beautiful usernames on my dashboard, it’s like an epic poem is continuously streaming in. I shook some of them up in a tumblr just now, and here is the result:
Chris Abani on the stories of Africa
Watch the whole thing for some interesting discussion on post-colonial lit or listen from 15.46 to hear a poem read out that will stop your breath in your lungs.
(text of the poem - but LISTEN to is. It’s made to be listened to.
this poem was written by a sailor and i am on the ocean while writing this
this poem will be read on every boat in america.
my poetry soars over the sea like a gigantic bald eagle
actually, i am in my boat now.
it is gigantic
when i am dead, ten thousand sailors will read my poetry
Elizabeth Bishop reading ‘At the Fishhouses’. From poetryfoundation.org.
It is like what we imagine knowledge to be:
dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free,
drawn from the cold hard mouth
of the world, derived from the rocky breasts
forever, flowing and drawn, and since
our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.
Love poems: writers choose their favourites for Valentine's Day
Happy Valentine’s Day!
What need of a lamp
when day lightens us,
what need to blind love
when love stands
with such radiant wings
over us?
What need -
yet to sing love,
love must first shatter us.
- H.D., from the Sappho
For Every Year
This site is working to publish a poem inspired by every year since the 1400s. They are currently up to about 1643 (with a few forgivable gaps).
"Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson has penned a poem to mark National Libraries Day."
Let’s stop library closures. Find out more: click here .
