Tagged: poetry

Rufus F.

/// December 20, 2020

Sunday Morning! “The Bells of Christmas” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It’s hard to imagine a poet having more professional success and personal tragedy than Longfellow, and yet he wrote this steadfast call to hope during one of the nation’s most miserable of Christmases.

Rufus F.

/// June 23, 2019

Sunday Morning! The Bughouse

On Daniel Swift’s journey into Saint Elizabeth’s mental hospital with Ezra Pound.

Em Carpenter

/// August 8, 2018

Poetry Should Hurt

Meaning and context take a backseat as the language police round up another suspect.

Andrew Donaldson

/// May 20, 2018

Poet Voice and Why it Grates

Picture, if you will, that you are not overly familiar with live poetry reading, and gave it a chance just to try it. But the speaker, using a monotone and slightly halting delivery, was as imposing as the meaning of the words themselves. Turns out that is common as @cjgiaimo writes in Atlas Obscura

Tess Kovach

/// May 4, 2016

In Defense of Poetry

Old poetry is laden with the baggage of centuries of hidden metaphor and archaic references. New poetry is prone to abstraction and whimsical laziness. But poetry deserves our consideration as an art form nonetheless. After all, all the music we love is poetry, and all the fun little things we can do with language are best done in poetic form.

Mike Schilling

/// December 1, 2015

Same as it Evers Was

Tinkering with some verse, leaving nothing to chance.

J.L. Wall

/// November 17, 2015

Sickle Moon

A poem for Paris.

J.L. Wall

/// November 3, 2015

Louise Glück and the Aspiration of Poetry

What do anthologies do to the experience of reading poetry? And what makes a poem a poem, anyway?

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Burt Likko

/// February 22, 2015

A Special Oscar Night Challenge

All comments about
The Academy Awards
Must be in haiku

Jaybird

/// October 5, 2014

i thank You God for most this amazing by e e cummings

Jaybird reads “i thank You God for most this amazing” as he tries to tackle e e cummings.

Chris

/// August 5, 2014

The Saddest Poem?

What’s the saddest poem ever written? With a couple candidates.

Burt Likko

/// April 14, 2014

Why the Goddess Weeps

An original poem, written by a lawyer during a particularly challenging day at court.

Guest Authors

/// September 19, 2013

A Gordon Setter

Original poetry by Dale Forguson.

Guest Authors

/// September 2, 2013

Poem for Monday

Original poetry by Dale Forguson

J.L. Wall

/// September 20, 2012

Translation as Commentary (or, Commentary as Translation?)

It is September, which means—inevitably—that I find myself thinking about Paul Celan’s “Todesfugue,” this time (the first time) as a teacher. It is hardly easy, in subject matter or in style—it is credited for...

Jason Kuznicki

/// February 22, 2012

Another from Edmond Rostand

Rostand’s second poem from Les Musardises, entitled “The Bedroom.” For my English translation I chose rhymed couplets, though I admit with BlaiseP that there’s a procrustean quality to some of them. Incidentally, the author...

J.L. Wall

/// February 13, 2011

History’s Lost, Part II: Sappho

“Euripides was eaten by dogs; Aeschylus killed by a stone; Sappho leapt from a cliff. We know no more of them than that. We have their poetry, and that is all.” – Virginia Woolf,...

Erik Kain

/// October 13, 2010

A poem for Wednesday

The Old Fools by Philip Larkin What do they think has happened, the old fools, To make them like this? Do they somehow suppose It’s more grown-up when your mouth hangs open and drools,...

Will

/// April 28, 2010

A Golden Age of American Poetry?

From the NYRBlog: In a country in which schools seem to teach less literature every year, where fewer people read books and ignorance reigns supreme regarding most issues, poetry is read and written more...

Will

/// December 10, 2009

Poetic License Meets the War on Christmas

I hereby declare James Hanley this season’s poet laureate.

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The Man at the Hat Check

January 18, 2021

On Writing of Wrongs

January 18, 2021

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Ryan Adams Cleared by the FBI

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While Adams still has the pall of being an asshole hanging over his head, none of those come with possible felonies attached.

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From Rolling Stone: What Happened to Promises to Disband the Minneapolis Police?

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How vows to reform public safety in the wake of George Floyd’s killing devolved into modest cuts to the city’s 2021 police budget

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From CNN Business: Sheldon Adelson, Republican kingmaker and casino magnate, has died at 87

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From CNN Business:

New York (CNN Business)Sheldon Adelson, the chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands and a major donor to Republican politicians, died late Monday following complications related to his cancer treatment, his company said. He was 87.

Adelson took a leave of absence from Sands last week to resume treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which his aides first disclosed in late February 2019.

(Featured image is "Some birds hanging out at the Sands Casino in Atlantic City" by iirraa is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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From Gizmodo: Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users’ Location Data, Has Been Archived

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From Gizmodo:

In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” — but which ultimately devolved into a hotbed of far-right conspiracy theories, unchecked racism, and death threats aimed at prominent politicians.

The researcher, who asked to be referred to by their Twitter handle, @donk_enby, began with the goal of archiving every post from January 6, the day of the Capitol riot; what she called a bevy of “very incriminating” evidence. According to the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, among others, Parler is one of a number of apps used by the insurrections to coordinate their breach of the Capitol, in a plan to overturn the 2020 election results and keep Donald Trump in power.

(Featured image is "A radio tracking device on a Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) at the Cotswold Falconry Centre" by Anguskirk and is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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Amazon Turns Out the Lights, The Parler’s Over

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First Apple kicked the app off the iOS app store, and now Amazon is ending their web services agreement citing breech of terms of service.

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From Twitter Safety: Donald Trump’s Twitter Account has been Permanently Suspended

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From Twitter Safety:

After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https://t.co/CBpE1I6j8Y

— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 8, 2021

(Featured image is "Free Bird" by Ennev and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

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A follow-up on the Botham Jean/Amber Guyger story that flew under the radar

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From DFW's CBS:

DALLAS, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Chief Judge Barbara Lynn of the Northern District of Texas has reversed a previous ruling of the Court that had dismissed all claims against the City of Dallas in the murder of Botham Jean.

The federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Dallas is now allowed to proceed once an amended lawsuit is filed.

We discussed Amber Guyger getting indicted here.

We discussed her trial here.

(Featured image is Botham Jean from The Botham Jean Foundation/Facebook)

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