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May 2, 2008I'm on a cloud floating by and I've gone mad but madness flows away in a tall shining work of Art and I'm standing in front of a fountain and the world's ringing down through me and there are no fields of migrants mixing hair and bone into concrete. -former Dallas poet Rauan (Ron) Klassnik, Holy Land
This line originally appeared in The DMQ Review. Rauan will be tonight's featured reader at the Dallas Poets Community open mic at 7 p.m. at Half Price Books on Northwest Highway. The entry "Morning Verse" has no entry tags. May 1, 2008The last, the very last, so richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow. Perhaps if the sun's tears would sing against a white stone. -"The Butterfly" by Pavel Friedman, who died in Auschwitz in 1944.
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. The entry "Morning Verse" has no entry tags. April 30, 2008She had eyes like two turntables mix(h)er in between my dreams and reality blend in ancient themes the bas(e)is of isis cross-faded to ankh the beat drops like a cliff overlooking my heart. The entry "Morning Verse" has no entry tags. April 29, 2008From The Associated Press: Gary Snyder, a poet known for his verse about nature and spirituality and a former member of the beat movement along with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, has won the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, awarded annually by the Chicago-based Poetry Foundation.
The entry "Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winner" is tagged: gary snyder , ruth lilly poetry prize The weight of this sad time we must obey/Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. *This line was suggested by Dallas poet M.A.M. Redmond. Please share your favorite lines of poetry by submitting a comment or e-mailing me. The entry "Morning Verse" has no entry tags. April 28, 2008The season turned like the page of a glossy fashion magazine. -Tony Hoagland, "The Change"
Hoagland will be at the Round Top poetry festival this weekend. The entry "Morning Verse" has no entry tags. April 25, 2008
Before poetry month slips away, here's a brief tribute to a couple of gifted women. The first is the author of one of my favorite poems, Ann Darr. She wrote "Before Dawn," wherein she talks of the nasty things she will do to a bird that has awakened her. The last lines are: I shall debird him. Hold.
The entry "Tributes to a poet and a pilot (and a teacher)" is tagged: Ann Darr , Before Dawn , poets , teachers His father lifted him, tucking his arms under the shoulders and knees of a son lighter than origami, pieta flowering as he carried the boy. -Christopher Stephen Soden, "Hatchling" The entry "Morning Verse" has no entry tags. April 24, 2008We real cool. We Lurk late. We Sing sin. We Jazz June. We -Gwendolyn Brooks, "We Real Cool"
According to Academy of American Poets, this is the 3rd most popular poem clicked on by Texas readers. The entry "Morning Verse" has no entry tags. April 23, 2008
I know that many of you have been enjoying Michael Grabell's "Morning Verse" selections. So be sure to catch him, along with Jack Myers, Tammy Gomez and Charlot Nace at The Writer's Garret's National Poetry Month Reading 7 p.m. Friday at Paperbacks Plus 6115 La Vista Dr. The entry "National Poetry Month event at The Writer's Garret" is tagged: dallas poets , national poetry month , poetry , writer's garret My soul has grown deep like the rivers. -Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
According to the Academy of American Poets, this is the 2nd most popular poem clicked on by Texas readers. The entry "Morning Verse" has no entry tags. April 22, 2008Here is a line of poetry to celebrate Earth Day: And when the sun goes down, her voice among the aisles incites the timid prayer of the minutest cricket. -Emily Dickinson, "Nature, The Gentlest Mother" The entry "Morning Verse" has no entry tags. April 21, 2008Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, rage, rage against the dying of the light. -Dylan Thomas, "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night"
According to the Academy of American Poets, this is the most popular poem clicked on by Texas readers. The entry "Morning Verse" has no entry tags. April 19, 2008Last night marked the end of Dallas' poetrifecta with three former poet laureates (Billy Collins, Robert Pinsky and Robert Hass) reading in the Dallas area in just 50 days. Hass, who earlier this month won the Pulitzer, read at Arts & Letters Live at the Dallas Museum of Art. Describing Dallas as a "dazzling city," Hass said that after attending the museum's J.M.W. Turner exhibit, he walked through downtown, marveling at the mixture of skyscrapers and older merchant buildings. "Every perspective was amazing because of the architecture downtown," he said. The older buildings, "looked like something out of Edward Hopper." It was fitting for a night that featured poetry, art and poetry inspired by art. Hass began by reading several poems he had translated from Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz reflecting on various artworks. He then read a poem that tried to mimic the squeegeed blur of artist Gerhard Richter's works and another poem that featured Vermeer's "Milkmaid." The night ended with a series of spoken word poems by Dallas teenagers inspired by works in the museum. The introducers spoke highly of Hass' humility. Indeed, the first four poems he read were "Envy of Other People's Poetry," "The Problem with Describing Colors," "The Problem with Describing Trees" and "Time and Materials," which starts and stops as the speaker says, "The object of this poem is ..." The entry "Poetrifecta" has no entry tags. April 18, 2008In my love's body it is Sunday. -M.A.M. Redmond, "In Praise of His Hands" The entry "Morning Verse" has no entry tags. April 17, 2008Joan Hunter Dunn, who inspired John Betjeman's classic poem "A Subaltern's Love Song," has died at 92. The entry "Passing of a muse" is tagged: A Subaltern's Love Song , John Betjeman Today is Poem in Your Pocket Day, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. (aside: This could be the start of some really bad jokes.) Here's a line from the one I'm carrying: I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do. -Naomi Shihab Nye, "Famous" The entry "Morning Verse" has no entry tags. April 16, 2008
David Taylor sends along this link to the presentation made by Robert Michael Pyle, keynote speaker at last Friday's conference. (It opens with RealPlayer.) David himself has a new book of poetry, Praying Up the Sun. He'll be giving a reading 7 p.m. Saturday at Salon Mijangos, 1906 S. Flores in San Antonio. The entry "Texas nature writing conference keynote video" is tagged: butterflies , david taylor , robert michael pyle , robert michael pyle video , texas nature writing I do not know which to prefer, the beauty of inflections or the beauty of innuendos, the blackbird whistling or just after. -Wallace Stevens, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" The entry "Morning Verse" has no entry tags. April 15, 2008White dew on the jade stairs; -Li Bai, "Grief at the Jade Stairs," trans. Wu-chi Liu The entry "Morning Verse" has no entry tags. April 14, 2008I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. -Robert Hass, "Meditations at Lagunitas" Robert Hass, this year's Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry, reads Friday night at Arts & Letters Live. The entry "Morning Verse" has no entry tags. April 11, 2008I'm not saying life won't continue -Ann Howells, "Without Warning"
Howells, a longtime member of the Dallas Poets Community and managing editor of its journal, Ilya's Honey, recently published a new chapbook, Black Crow in Flight. The entry "Morning Verse" has no entry tags. April 10, 2008What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? -Langston Hughes, "Harlem" The entry "Morning Verse" has no entry tags. April 9, 2008April is the cruelest month, breeding The entry "Morning Verse" has no entry tags. April 8, 2008Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote, The entry "Morning Verse" has no entry tags. April 7, 2008 Junot Diaz won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Monday for "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." The entry "Breaking News: Pulitzer Prizes" is tagged: books , Pulitzer Prizes Green Buddhas on the fruit stand. We eat the smile and spit out the teeth. -Charles Simic, Poet Laureate, "Watermelons" The entry "Morning Verse" has no entry tags. April 4, 2008Water pouring into a plastic bucket sounds like fingers on a drum. -Susan Briante, "14th Day of the Rainy Season" The entry "Morning Verse" has no entry tags. April 3, 2008Many small hands issuing from a waterfall means silence mothered me. -Li-Young Lee, "A Table in the Wilderness"
Lee will read tomorrow night at the Beall Poetry Festival at Baylor University in Waco. The entry "Morning Verse" has no entry tags. April 2, 2008Glory be to God for dappled things--for skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow. -Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Pied Beauty" The entry "Morning Verse" has no entry tags. April 1, 2008To celebrate National Poetry Month, I'll be posting a new line of poetry every morning on Texas Pages for a little feature called "Morning Verse." The lines will span from ancient haiku to slam poetry and include a variety of voices from Shakespeare to Allen Ginsberg to Lucille Clifton. Every Friday, we'll feature lines from our very own poets in the Dal |