Yay! The bookstore where I work now makes a big deal out of Poetry Month, and one of my co-workers singlehandedly chooses and puts together these beautifully printed poem packets. We have giant bowls of the individual poems in the store all month, and encourage people to pick a poem out to take home with them. This is my favorite from this year's packet. :)
I've been totally out of touch with various Internet poetry places lately. What are your favorites?
My friend M introduced me to Katherine Larson's Radial Symmetry (Yale University Press, New Haven: 2011), which is amazing and unlike anything I'd ever liked before. My favorite is "Love at Thirty-two Degrees," which begins "Today I dissected a squid."
I'm also a big fan of Stephen Mitchell's new translation of the Iliad--I like the energy, the sense of relentlessness that drives it forward even in the quieter moments. I keep trying to make people actually read the entire catalog of ships (a really long boring passage that lists every single bunch of dudes who showed up and where they were from and how many ships they brought) because that's the closest you'll get to the Greek without actually reading the, you know, Greek. (I also keep trying to make people read the Greek, but I'm sure you can imagine how that goes.)
edajaramsmom sent me this link in honor of Poetry Month: http://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2013-spring/selections/hunger-to-hunger-introduction/ and it's really cool!
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Date: 2013-05-01 07:47 am (UTC)I've been totally out of touch with various Internet poetry places lately. What are your favorites?
My friend M introduced me to Katherine Larson's Radial Symmetry (Yale University Press, New Haven: 2011), which is amazing and unlike anything I'd ever liked before. My favorite is "Love at Thirty-two Degrees," which begins "Today I dissected a squid."
I'm also a big fan of Stephen Mitchell's new translation of the Iliad--I like the energy, the sense of relentlessness that drives it forward even in the quieter moments. I keep trying to make people actually read the entire catalog of ships (a really long boring passage that lists every single bunch of dudes who showed up and where they were from and how many ships they brought) because that's the closest you'll get to the Greek without actually reading the, you know, Greek. (I also keep trying to make people read the Greek, but I'm sure you can imagine how that goes.)