Poetry Archives |
Stanley Kunitz - It says a great deal about Stanley Kunitz that he was 95 when he was named Poet Laureate for the second time.
C.P. Cavafy - Constantine Petrou Cavafy (1863-1933) may be one of the greatest poets of the last century, but he's mostly known for one poem.
A New Path to the Waterfall, Raymond Carver - What if you only had a year to live? How would you live it?
There’s no easier question.
Anna Akhmatova - "Poetry is respected only in this country,” said Russian poet Osip Mandelstam.
By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives, Judith Tannenbaum & Spoon Jackson - What a pleasure to welcome a new Guest Butler, Ruth Gendler. She’s both writer and artist, equally admired in each field.
Donald Hall - How pathetic is this? I was the kid who liked poetry in school and memorized poems that weren't even assigned. I have a large poetry collection.
Dorothy Parker - She was a Rothschild --- just not a Rothschild with any link to the rich Rothschilds.
Her mother died a month before her fifth birthday, her stepmothe
Kabir: Ecstatic Poems -
Did you know there were stand-up comedians in India in the 1400s?
Me neither --- until I read Kabir.
Alas, technology did not exist to immortalize hi
Monsoon Solo: Voices Once Submerged, Gretl Claggett - Norman Mailer said you don’t really know a woman until you’ve met her in court.
I say you don’t know a woman until you’
Selected Poems, Bertolt Brecht - You knew Brecht wrote plays; "Galileo”, “Mother Courage” and more. What about his poems? News to you, you say.
Sharon Olds - Her father is dying, and her plane's been cancelled, but there's another, leaving in just a few minutes, not in this terminal, but it will get her t
The Complete Poems, Randall Jarrell - It's Poetry Month. Also the opening of the baseball season. And tax preparation time. Bet on poetry to come in dead last.
The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks - The greatest Muslim poet was born in what is now Afghanistan, back when Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists lived peacefully together.