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of Poetry Magazine, Harriet Blog, and all kinds of poems. Browse poems
and poets by poetic style, generation, or type of work. Nature poetry, political poetry, Beat poetry, they've got you covered. Articles and
resources for improving your poetry. First place I turn for what's
interesting in the poetry world.
Subtitled
"A Poem a Day for American High Schools, Hosted by Billy Collins, U.S.
Poet Laureate, 2001-2003". 180 contemporary poems you can work your way
through, ranging from whimsical to pointed. If you're ambitious, do a
Google search for Billy Collins Poems on YouTube, just to hear how he
reads them.
I
love reading the back issues of this magazine. They generously make a
lot of poems available to read online. The Conversations with poets are
an interesting insight into the craft. A year's subscription is well
worth it.
You
know those poems you hear read on NPR by a sonorous voice? That would
be Garrison Keillor. Whenever I want to see if my poem is working, I
imagine it being read in Garrison Keillor's voice. Find the daily
Writer's Almanac and an archive of poems here.
Home
of Classic Poetry Aloud, where you go when you need a taste of the old
school poems. Dickinson, Kipling, Longfellow, Shakespeare. It's where I
go when I want to reconnect to my childhood and poems that rhyme. Some
days I just need to see if I remember all the lines to The Charge of the
Light Brigade.
Or Dickinson -- All together now: "Hope
is the thing with feathers -- That perches in the soul -- And sings the
tune without the words...
4 comments:
Looks like spring has arrived in Wyoming! I bet that's some pretty poetry. :)
Nice list! No one need to poetry-less.
Not quite spring yet. Using last year's photo. Tired of waiting!
That's right Kath. Let no one say there is no poetry to be found.
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