Recognized international poets and poetry featured here.
MOON RIVER |:| Mary Oliver Poem |:| Drifting in the Weeds of Heaven...
Frank O'Hara ::: Poem ::: Steps
Third Coast
Prompt Generators, Topic Starters, Picture Prompts, and Thought-Provoking Questions for You to Answer...
This extraordinary collection of word games, visual tricks, and intellectual assaults on the conventional is a treasure trove of the artistic and socio-linguistic conundrums which the Surrealists cultivated. Of great value to teachers, comedy writers, and
Late 20th-to-early 21st Century poetry, an ongoing, pluralistic anthology, including complete out-of-print books, sub-sites, chapbooks, visual & performance poetry, African, Paraguayan, Hungarian, Beat...
Jampole begins with the charm of a master poet recreating stories of men or women just before a crisis begins or ends, at a precarious equipoise before a moment of change....[he] creates some of the deepest feeling people you will ever meet...then...begin
Conference room, blah blah blanket walls dissolve / and flow, a plunge in frigid water, blah blah / beat of branches warms your tingling frozen flesh, / incorporated world between two walls of ice, / ha ha horses' heads on shivering human bodies, / da
And the three-year-old at the picnic / said she wanted to play the violin / and I said, just like Joe Venuti / and she said, you're a Joe Venuti / and I said, you're a Joe Venuti / and she pulled a tuft of grass and said, / here's some Joe
Restraint, the central emotion of Bishop's poetry, is only necessary when there is an overwhelming pressure towards expression – in just the same way as, according to T. S. Eliot, the extinction of personality is only possible when there is a personal
O fold me away between blankets And leave me alone. And let the door of my room be locked forever – Never to be opened, even for you, should you come.
(but my once tender)body old age now (has seized;)
Now, THIS is what I've been looking for in a poetry blog (or in any writing on poetry). Absolutely compelling, both in terms of selections and criticism; so spunky and smart, I enjoy every bit, including the sour, "rhubarby" flavors...
Peter Money Poetry
Electronic Poetry Center
Sufi Poetry, Zen Poetry, Hindu Poetry, Buddhist Poetry, Christian Poetry, Yoga Poetry, More
Poebeat =|= I Sing The Body Electric by Philip Levine
André Breton =|= Poems & the Manifesto (opus 4 4)
in nature there are few sharp lines: there are areas of primrose more or less dispersed;