Tag: poetry
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Poem For The Hartford Public Library
MARVELOUS WILL IT BE IN THE EYES OF EVERY GENERATION There was a clearing, a readiness for first bells, an opening for the outpouring. A hand was raised: How much of the past would have to be overlooked? He stings, he bites, he is absolutely convinced, and all the time he figures himself…
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My TED Talk: “The Poetry Of Misunderstanding”
From the description on TED.com: What you say rarely communicates exactly what you mean — but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Television producer, Ross Martin draws on the principles of poetry to reveal how the ‘magical consequences’ of being misunderstood can drive originality.
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Wall Poem, Brooklyn
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See You Tomorrow At Concordia College’s Business Breakfast Series
If you’re awake in Westchester tomorow morning at the ungodly hour of 7am, come for the “Business Breakfast” series at Concordia College. I’ll be there. Here’s the last slide I’ll present. Here’s the first one: (image credit: Hugh MacLoed)
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A Message From My Neighbors About Technology
My Fatherinlaw bought us a printer today, unsolicited. Now when he comes to stay, he can print things and not have to look at us like we’re nuts for not having a printer. Instead, he will look at us like we’re assholes for not having any ink in the printer he bought us. Same day,…
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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…
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Daniel Nester Remembers Our Hang With Paul McCartney & George Plimpton–The Night Before 9/11
Poet Daniel Nester just posted this poignant piece in the Times Union remembering what it felt like the night before 9/11… and after. “Keep the Memory Alive”: An Account from Nine Years Ago by Daniel Nester On the evening of September 1o, 2001, I went to a party to honor former poet laureate Billy Collins.…
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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…
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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…