How fun that poetry has made it to the national fake-news headlines! 😉
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Archive for February, 2009
We Spot Diplomacy by Poetry
Posted in Poetryspotting on February 27, 2009| 1 Comment »
We Read Poets of Distinction
Posted in Edgar Allan Poe, Gabriela Mistral, Kay Ryan, Margaret Atwood, Maxine Kumin, Maya Angelou, Robert Frost, Wislawa Szymborska on February 7, 2009| 1 Comment »
For our January meeting, we focused on poets who had earned a distinctive honor in celebration of poetry coming back to the inaugural activities.
Maxine Kumin (1925- ) – Pulitzer prize winner for Poems of New England in 1972, Poet Laureate of New Hampshire
Kay Ryan (1945- ) – appointed the 16th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry by the Library of Congress
Duck
Turtle
The Edges or Time
Patience
A Cat/A Future
Things Shouldn’t Be So Hard
Robert Frost (1874-1963) – delivered poem at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) – first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone
Maya Angelou (1928- ) – delivered poem at Bill Clinton’s inauguration in 1993
Still I Rise
Woman Work
On the Pulse of Morning
The Health-Food Diner
Wislawa Symborska (1923-) – Nobel laureate, 1996
Margaret Atwood (1939- ) – multiple award winner for poetry and literature
Gabriela Mistral (Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga) (1889-1957) – first female Latin American poet to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1945.
We Examine the Politics of Poetry
Posted in Billy Collins, Carl Adamshick, Eugene McCarthy, Lanston Hughes, Madeleine Begun Kane, Robert Hayden, Rudyard Kipling, Uncategorized on February 7, 2009| 3 Comments »
The prodigal blogger has returned to poetry and now is trying to get caught up. We met at Frances’ house (last November) and discussed the upcoming election. Of course, since we all seem to share the same political sentiments, there wasn’t a whole lot of spirited debating, at least not about who to support for President. So we meandered into the politics of poetry.
Jan started us off with:
A jingle to help us recall the order of Presidents from Washington to Wilson
And this little gem which I could not find online. It’s from 1972 when Nixon won reelection in a landslide.
The election is over, the results are now known,
The will of the people has clearly been shown.Let’s all get together and show by our deeds,
That we will give Dick all the help that he needs.Let bygones by bygones and all bitterness pass,
I’ll hug your elephant if you kiss my ass.
Robert Hayden (1913-1980) – bio
from Words in Mourning Time – part I which opens with
For King, for Robert Kennedy,
destroyed by those they could not save
Read an analysis here.
Billy Collins (1941- ) – bio
Carl Adamshick
Our flag
Madeleine Begun Kane – bio
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) – bio
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) – bio
Eugene McCarthy (1916-2005) – bio
The Poets' Notebook 