I love the idea of a poem in my pocket. As I searched for something to post for today’s feature, I found myself moving from poem to poem, nourishing places inside me long neglected amidst the practical rationality of my daily life. I wonder how different my days might feel if I began each of […]
Archive | April 29, 2010
One pocket? One poet.
By Ann Ivins Only in the shallowest of senses are the sonnets in Fatal Interview “traditional,” as they are often damned today. They are traditional, in outward form—Millay never went overboard for the epidermal innovations and prosodic gimmicks that tantalized contemporaries like e.e. cummings and Marianne Moore—but jarringly new in substance and sentiment. Cristina Nehring: […]
Poem in Your Pocket Day: My two favorites
I’m glad that Chris pointed out that today is Poem in Your Pocket Day, because I think it’s a great idea. But I had a similar problem to Sam – I couldn’t choose just one. Luckily for me, however, my two favorite poems are so embedded in my memory that they travel with me everywhere […]
Poem in Your Pocket Day: I can't make up my mind…
As Chris noted earlier this morning, today is Poem in Your Pocket Day. The rules are simple enough, but I may need a bigger pocket. For one thing, I can’t make up my mind as to what my favorite poem is. And second, I have this bad tendency toward long poems. The wall on my […]
Is that a poet in your pocket, or…?
“You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket,” John Adams wrote to his son, John Quincy, in May of 1781. Today, nearly 230 years later, plenty of people are packing poets in their pockets. It’s national “Poem In Your Pocket” Day. First celebrated in 2003, “Poem In Your Pocket” Day is sponsored […]
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