Tag: poem

  • Poem By Janus Mostrif

      IN A RECESSION Language holds up banks. No one earns thanks. Among our many cravings, Someone has savings. (Janus Mostrif, 2002)

  • Still Pretty Much My Favorite Music Video

    Somehow the description in the MTV Music Player is “painful,” and I guess I can accept that, though I’d say Yo La Tengo’s “From A Motel 6” is more a poem about the beauty of an open wound if not a love song from Ira to Georgia on drums. Yo La TengoGet More: Yo La…

  • T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land: The Latest Reason To Buy An iPad

    Eighty-nine years ago, T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land was published for the first time.   Today, Harold Bloom still calls it “indisputably the most influential poem written in English in [the twentieth] century.”  Helen Vendler says it “reached so far beyond its origins in both life and literature that it revolutionized modern verse.” Call it what you…

  • Poem By Charles Simic

    Reblogged from Andy Bachman’s Water Over Rocks… “Birds Singing of Fair Weather As They Crap” Graveside Oration Our late friend hated blue skies, Bible-quoting preachers, Politicians kissing babies, Women who are all sweetness. He liked drunks in church, Nudists playing volleyball, Stray dogs making friends, Birds singing of fair weather as they crap. –Charles Simic

  • A Perfect Morning For Reading W.S. Merwin

    Here’s a love poem to Paula, his wife… Late Spring by W.S. Merwin Coming into the high room again after years after oceans and shadows of hills and the sounds after losses and feet on stairs after looking and mistakes and forgetting turning there thinking to find no one except those I knew finally I…

  • Poem By My Son When He Was 5

    “I LOVE YOU” I love you in the house and over the roof. I love you outer space. I love you under the fence and over the room. I love you in the bushes and out the grass. I love you in the machine and out the door. I love you in the drawer and…

  • The Wall Street Journal Reports Iranian Simin Behbahani Will Follow John Ashbery As mtvU’s Next Poet Laureate

    Tonight, The Wall Street Journal broke the news that we’ve named mtvU’s new Poet Laureate. As the Journal’s Kamau High reports, it’s 82 year-old Iranian poet Simin Behbahani. Beginning Monday, mtvU will broadcast 19 short films featuring Behbahani’s poems, translated by Farzaneh Milani and Kaveh Safa, and produced by Sophia Cranshaw. mtvU will also be…

  • “How To Be Inappropriate”

    Zoo Press published my book of poems, THE COP WHO RIDES ALONE, in 2002. I think like 25 people bought a copy, and that’s ’cause they were just being nice or are in my family. Then they all sold their copies back to The Strand and Amazon. By the way, you can buy this amazing…

  • Things People Have Told Me

    Dean Kamen told me: “We are in a race between technology and catastrophe.” A friend at work told me: “We are constantly moving toward the perfect body…or total decay.” A Rabbi told me: “It’s not the size of your pencil, it’s how you sign your name.” My boss told me: “What got you here wont…

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