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When most people think of poetry for kids, Shel Silverstein often comes to mind, and rightly so since his poems are a silly and delightful right-of-passage for any child. April, being National Poetry Month, offers the perfect time to take a look at the variety and scope of poetry for children beyond the Silverstein collections. … Continue reading Kids Poetry Month: New Books!
In honor of National Poetry Month, we're reading the work of Mexican writer and poet, Salvador Novo. The University of Texas Press recently published a new translation of Novo's memoir, A Pillar of Salt, and included nineteen of his erotic sonnets at the end. These bold romantic verses about desire are a lot of fun to … Continue reading The Erotic Sonnets of Salvador Novo
Happy Tuesday to all! Today we celebrate with the fantastically talented Tom Waits reading Charles Bukowski's The Laughing Heart. And if you love Tom Waits as much as we do be sure to check out his beautiful book, Hard Ground, in which Tom Waits' poetry accompanies Michael O'Brien's photography to create a moving portrait of … Continue reading National Poetry Month!
April you've come back to us! We here at BookPeople are so excited to once again celebrate National Poetry Month. This year we kick it off right with local award winning poet, Anis Mojgani. Join us tonight, April 1 at 7PM for a fantastic release party for Anis's Songs From Under the River. Evelyn Mother … Continue reading National Poetry Month!
Today we're digging way back through the years to bring you a little Shakespeare here in the middle of National Poetry Month. Sonnet 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no! it … Continue reading National Poetry Month!
It took all month, but we finally found a Bukowski poem clean enough to post in this public forum (there are kids out there, we like to be careful.) Today's poem of the day is Girl In a Miniskirt Reading the Bible Outside My Window, originally published in the collection Mockingbird Wish Me Luck and … Continue reading Poem of the Day: ‘Girl In a Miniskirt Reading the Bible Outside My Window,’ by Charles Bukowski
Today's poem of the day for this final week of National Poetry Month (oh, where does the time go?) is one from E. E. Cummings, that master manipulator of language: i carry your heart with me(i carry it in. One of the most prolific and experimental poets of the twentieth century, Cummings cultivated a distinct … Continue reading Poem of the Day: ‘i carry your heart with me(i carry it in’ by e. e. cummings
It's only appropriate that Earth Day should fall in National Poetry Month; what more universal Muse have poets known over the centuries than Mother Nature? (Well all right, a case could be made for love, sure, but Mother Nature has surely broken fewer hearts and inspired more odes than laments in comparison.) In honor of … Continue reading Poem of the Day: ‘A Song for the Rolling Earth’ by Walt Whitman
It's still April, which means it's still National Poetry Month. Today's poem of the day is Gnosticism III by Anne Carson, from her collection, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera. Carson is known for her innovative work with poetry, composing entire novels in verse such as Autobiography in Red, which was a New York Times Notable Book … Continue reading Poem of the Day: ‘Gnosticism III’ by Anne Carson
April is National Poetry Month, and in honor of this month-long celebration of verse, we'll be scouring the Poetry section here at BookPeople to bring you (roughly) thirty of our favorite poems in thirty days. We'll also have an essay on why poetry is relevant from poet Joni Wallace, coverage of one of Austin's slam … Continue reading It’s National Poetry Month!
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