Poetry
It testifies to the fact that war is not there, it is everywhere, and everyone is affected, because we are all in it together. These memorable poems tell us more about war than the news.
07:43 Dec 4, 2010
'Adeline Compton,' a moving poem set to music, is prize-winning poet Djelloul Marbrook's homage to a memorable English girl who used to serve him air tea in painted tin cups in a gazebo in their boarding school many years ago.
06:36 Nov 24, 2010
Like Anne of Green Gables, I have always had an exquisite compulsion to say the one thing nobody wants to hear at the very moment they least want to hear it. It has complicated my life to no end, but it has also produced immeasurable riches.
08:50 Nov 15, 2010
That may seem a strange statement to academic people who have been told they need to go to school or collage to learn how to write poetry or music.
13:34 Nov 8, 2010
To arms, to the barricades, poetry presses of America! We need a collaboration between our many publishers of poetry and local government and business.
07:10 Oct 27, 2010
In her second book of poems, 'Elements,' Deborah Poe celebrates the materials of which we're made. She rides the English language like a rocket to the stars, and shows us how important our use of words is. A stunning achievement.
18:20 Oct 24, 2010
After a long career in the newspaper industry prize-winning poet Djelloul Marbrook reflects on the nature of editing and proofreading as his second book of poems, 'Brushstrokes and Glances,' makes its way to market.
06:24 Oct 18, 2010
A society that defines danger as violent criminals within and ideological enemies without is an essentially adolescent society. The real danger to us comes from our artists and writers, and it is as heaven-sent as angels.
15:07 Sep 24, 2010
'Brushstrokes and Glances,' prize-winning poet Djelloul Marbrook's second book of poems, is about seeing things as others see them, something no democracy can do without.
13:05 Sep 23, 2010
Someone living in a cardboard box with frostbite and hunger may already have done something more memorable than our greatest writers and certainly more than the most famous politicians.
10:27 Sep 21, 2010
What is the voice that makes our hair stand up in a poem? Prize-winning poet Djelloul Marbrook calls it the Delphic voice, the child's voice that is heard above the din of adolescence and maturity, the voice of authentic innocence.
15:45 Sep 18, 2010
The work of the Russian poet Elena Fanailova is a case in point. This physician-journalist-poet is telling us things far more important than the blatherings of our politicians and pundits.
16:55 Sep 9, 2010
One of the biggest lies in American culture is that all the books that deserve to be published are published and all the good books are reviewed.
13:33 Aug 23, 2010
Anyone who thinks the pundits and scholars have cornered the market on describing our culture to us should take a look at Bruce Weber's poetry. His book of poems, The Breakup of My First Marriage, is a diary of mayhem, merriment and danger.
11:26 Aug 10, 2010
Not everyone can rhyme rhythmic verse. Modern poets think doing that is unnecessary.
09:07 Aug 8, 2010
These are the concluding words of Deserted Memory on the back cover of an extraordinary collaboration of father and daughter portraying a colonial Algeria that refuses historical segmentation.
15:22 Jul 24, 2010
Very little foreign literature is translated and published in the United States-an intellectual disgrace-but all the more reason to rejoice in the translation by Susan Wicks of 'Cold Spring In Winter' by the young French poet Valerie Rouzeau.
14:08 Jul 16, 2010
With independence supposedly guaranteed, Americans strive to make a decent life for themselves, their families, and their friends. Often what we seek, we find.
11:27 Jul 4, 2010
Born in Haverhill, MA and raised in Bradford, MA Forrest Fyr had spent his early years listening to music and imagining a world full of unicorns and dragons.
10:20 Jun 30, 2010
Far From Algiers, Djelloul Marbrook's first book of poems, is the 2010 winner of the International Book Awards for poetry. The book won the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize in 2007 and was published in 2008 by Kent State University Press.
08:11 Jun 27, 2010
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