On Poetry

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. 
There is no happiness like mine. 
I have been eating poetry. 

from: Eating Poetry

by Mark Strand

 

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My Poetry (etc.)* Posts for:
2013

 A Different Kind of Poetry Challenge

January - The Poetry Project: Let's Talk About Christina Rossetti,

                                            A Birthday, Clouds, Who Has Seen the Wind?
               Conversations With Poetry . . . Or Between Poets . . . Or Poems, 

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love - Christopher Marlowe

               Guess What I Did This Weekend - Make a Perpetual Calendar Journal,

February - The Poetry Project: February* is Known As the Most Depessing of Months, So I 
                                               Guess it's the Right Month for This Topic,

Hate - James Stevens

                Book Reviews (Sort Of) The Book of American Negro Poetry, The Moon is Always Female, The Trouble 
                With Poetry,

Dunbar - Anne Spencer, My Mother's Novel - Marge Piercy,
from: You, Reader & The Introduction - Billy Collins

                You Know, With All the Hoopla About Who Can and Can't Get Married, It's Best to Remember . . . ,

Two Loves - Lord Alfred Douglas

                Book Reviews (Sort Of) Ariel,  

                                              The Swarm - Sylvia Plath

March - The Poetry Project: This Month's Poetry Project Prompt (See What I Did There) Is Poetry Published 
                                         Within the Past Year,

[shades of winter] - Lorin Ford 

             Looking for a New Book of Poetry to Read?,   

 

             In What Unexpected Places Do You Find Poetry?,

A Good Poet's Boots - Jim Culleny 

April - It's National Poetry Month!,

                                                 Pastoral - Jennifer Chang

         The Poetry Project: "I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.", 

         Put a Poem in Your Pocket, 

                                              When I Consider How My Light is Spent - John Milton

May - Rules for Critical Thinking ... from Folks Who Should Know, 

           Scaiku,
                    [This one time at lab], [Eureka, I Shout]

June - The Poetry Project: The Lists That Started It All, 

         Book Reviews. (Sort Of) Haiku: This Other World,
                                                                                      - Richard Wright   

          On Raising Readers, 

          Book Reviews (Sort Of) I found a bunch of new (to me) poetry books,

July - The Poetry Project: My Favorite of Shakspeare's Sonnets . . .,

[When my love swears that she is made of truth]

August -
September -
October -
November -
December -

2012

A Different Kind of Poetry Challenge

Read More, Blog More #1: January - Reflection and Peer Workshops, 

Read More, Blog More #2: February - Edna St. Vincent Millay & Self-awareness,  

I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed - Edna St. Vincent Millay

Read More, Blog More #3: March - What makes a room one's own?,  

There is no frigate like a book - Emily Dickinson

Read More, Blog More #4: April - Haiku, 

Read More, Blog More#5: May - How do you think we can teach kids to love poetry?,

If the World Was Crazy - Shel Silverstein 

Read More, Blog More #6: May - To Challenge Myself . . . Living a Haiku Year,

Read More, Blog More #7: June - "A Haiku life",

A Different Kind of Poetry Challenge

July - The Poetry Project: Meet and Greet Questionnaire,

         Cento / Book spine poetry,

August - The Poetry Project: Poem by a Pulitzer Prize winner,

 Champs d’Honneur & [Blank Verse] - Ernest Hemingway

              On writing in books,

                               Marginalia - Billy Collins                                 

              Poetry, Good for What Ails You,

              Book Review (Sort Of) - American Smooth,

I've Been a Stranger in a Strange Land; Cozy Apologia; Looking Up From the Page, 
I Am Reminded of this Mortal Coil - by Rita Dove 

September - The Poetry Project: A Classic Poem,

A Dream Within a Dream - Edgar Allen Poe

                    Guess who I ran into, 
                                         Regret - Troy Jollimore                        

                    Book Review (Sort Of) - Leaving Yuba City,
                                              The Geography Lesson - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
                    Book Review (Sort Of) - Gorrill's Orchard,    
                                                                 Watching Her Swim - Jeanne E. Clark  

                    Goody! Goody! (Two new poetry collections),

Poem About My Rights - June Jordan

October - The Poetry Project: Aren't We All Haunted? Halloween Poetry,

Haunted Houses - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

              [UPDATE] Poetry, Good for What Ails You,

What is This Road? - Sheenagh Pugh; Leisure - William Henry Davies;  
The Peace of Wild Things - Wendell Berry

              Book Review (Sort Of) - Native Guard, 

My Mother Dreams Another Country - Natasha Trethewey

              Why Buy Local . . . ,

November - The Poetry Project:  Book Reviews (Sort Of) - Morning Haiku, Narrow Road to the Deep North,

                  Book Review (Sort Of) - Holocaust Poetry,

                      First They Came for the Jews - Pastor Niemoller, The Butterfly - Pavel Friedmann, 

 IF - Edward Bond

                  Lest We Forget, 

                                 For the Fallen - Laurence Binyon

                  They're Talking About MY Blog - Cartoon,

Savage Chickens

                  Some Qs & As,     

                                  A Certain Slant of Light - Emily Dickinson  

December - The Poetry Project: A Bit of a Reflection,

On The Subject of Poetry - W.S. Merwin

                  The Virtual Advent Tour,

                                    [little tree] - e.e.cummings

                  Time to Take Stock - The Poetry Project,

Perhaps the World Ends Here - Joy Harjo

FEATURES:

What Does a Poet Laureate do?
Billy Collins, Kay Ryan, Robert Pinsky, Rita Dove, Robert Hass, Joseph Brodsky, Ted Kooser, . . .


*NOTE: Not all posts linked here are about poetry or a part of the Poetry Project, but they are all my original blather about books, reading, literacy, poetry, etc.