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Category Archives: Books of poetry you should read
Teaching Poetry in an English Workshop–Sakhnin, Israel, Day Two
Today the students worked on poems about a body part. I asked them to write at least four lines and to try to include a simile or a metaphor. We had a lengthy discussion about these concepts and they understood … Continue reading
Poetry Lesson Plans and Life Lessons
On June 6, I leave for Israel. Next Thursday, I will be in the classroom at Al-Bashaer High School in Deir al Assad teaching poetry to 7th, 8th, and 9th graders. The program is an English immersion experience for the … Continue reading
Reveling in poet, Carl Adamshick’s poems
I’ve just reread, again, Carl Adamshick‘s debut collection, Curses and Wishes (Louisiana State University Press). I can’t get enough of his surprising, elegant, streamlined poems. Listen to Carl read his poems –
A Wellspring of Poetry Happenings
Ohio Poetry Association Anthology Launch Party On April 16, at Bexley Library in Bexley, on the eastern edge of Columbus, the Ohio Poetry Association held the launch party and reading for its first anthology, Everything Stops and Listens, edited by … Continue reading
Posted in Books of poetry you should read, National Poetry Month, Poetry, Poetry Events, Poetry Readings, Poets I Really Like, Uncategorized, Writing Poetry
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Article first appeared in Poet’s Quarterly, Summer 2012. I am at no loss for information about you and your family; but I am at a loss where to begin. — Demosthenes Recently, an editor of a well-known journal posted a message … Continue reading
Weeding as a Source of Poetic Inspiration
I am pleased to have my poem, Weeding, currently featured in Repeat Poetry. It originally ran in Waccamaw Literary Journal. I like what Repeat Poetry does, which is to breathe new life to previously published work. It’s a site well worth following. The … Continue reading
Using the Polyptych in Poetry—Levis’ Winter Stars
A book of poetry I enjoy so much and go back to often is Larry Levis’ Winter Stars. From the first moment I read it, I was drawn into the beauty of the poems and into their honesty. There is … Continue reading
A Look at Prose Poetry — An Introduction to the Prose Poem, edited by Brian Clements and Jamey Dunham
I was introduced to prose poetry several years ago by the wonderful prose poet, Jamey Dunham. I met him in a poetry class I took at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. In 2008, Dunham won Salt Publishing, Ltd.’s prestigious … Continue reading
Posted in Books of poetry you should read, Poetry, Poets I Really Like, Prose Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged 1978, 1990, Ambrose Bierce, Amy Newman, An Introduction to the Prose Poem, Andre Breton, Andrew Michael Roberts, Andrew Zawacki, Baudeliare, Brian Clements, Charles Simic, Cobwebs from an Empty Skull, David Lehman, Double Room, Eugene Jolas, Firewheel Editions, French Symbolists, From Poe to the Present, Gavin Selerie, George Rutledge and Sons, Great American Prose Poems, James E. Irby, Jamey Dunham, Janet Kaplan, Jorge Luis Borges, Jorie Graham, Kathleen Kirk, Manifesto of Surrealism, Margarito Cuellar, Mark Strand, Mark Tursi, Michel Deville, Paul Violi, Peter Connors, Prose Poem, Pulitzer Prize, Rachel Gavin, Rimbaud, Russell Edson, Salt Publishing, Sentence Literary Journal, The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundaries of Genre, The Antioch Review, The Best American Poetry, The Monument, The World Doesn't End, Theo Hummer, Tom Andrews, Transition Journal, William Matthews
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Poet, John Siddique—What it Means To Be Human
A few years ago I happened onto the work of British poet, John Siddique—a serendipitous discovery through Facebook. Originally, I came across the name of Chris Hamilton-Emery, an accomplished poet himself and one of Salt Publishing Limited’s director’s. I recognized … Continue reading
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