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Last Updated: Mar 31st, 2010 - 21:41:59 |
Poems
Mary di Michele: 2 Poems
My first doubt came with my first real sin / though I longed for a simple faith, I longed / to be oblivious as a boy playing / ball in a sunlit field.
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
Poems
Susan Gillis: 3 Poems
Spring makes me sick for coastal cities. / All that burgeoning! Crowds and leaves. / Going for a walk is its own aperitif, / air in the nose like cracked pepper.
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
Poems
kaie kellough: 3 Poems
88 streetlamps, lit and unlit, yellow and black / alternate down atwater street / black & yellow ivories
bissect little burgundy / a lily melody lilts, unsteady
atop a boozy boogie-woogie
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
Poems
Brian Campbell: Poem
Two styles: split level and bungalow. Three colours / of brick: red, white, and grey. A single maple sapling / in the middle of each front yard. Curved grey of the street, the steep / grey bank of our driveway. My father said, I said, are you going to
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
Articles
Antonio D'Alfonso: Tableau [ ] Tableau
Inevitably movement in film comes to an end; but movement is the essence of a poem. It is not words that are poetic, but the movement created by the combination of words. In other words, a poem is, like film, dependent on the amalgam of units in order to rise to the status of poetry.
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
Articles
Vince Tinguely: The Arcane Beast
Poetry readings are an arcane beast ... often drawing quite small audiences, rarely garnering much publicity beyond a blurb in the back page listings of the local papers, yet they serve the crucial role of breathing life back into the form.
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
Expats
George Bowering: Autobiology
Autobiology, like my daughter, was conceived in Montreal and brought to light in Vancouver. It was indeed a kind of turning point for me, and the model for some books to come, books that would derive from it and step into something else. The next book would have 48 sections too, and it would rub against Gertrude Stein, too, as it numbered the persons I got stuff from in my writing world.
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
Expats
George Bowering: Genève 1971
At that time the hardest working and most serious young poet in central Canada was thirty-year-old Margaret Atwood. She is now and was then, logical, analytical—sensible. In secret she wore bright red babydoll jammies, but in her books and in her public addresses, she was a scientist’s daughter who knew how to develop an argument or show you an example.
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
Articles
Patti McCurdy: ESL Through Poetry
I prepare my class by focusing on poetry in general. We study poems, analyze poetry techniques and forms, write poems… we do scrapbooks, poetry slams, we write lyrics.
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
Articles
Mary Eva: Why Bringing Poets into the Classroom Matters
According to Mary, kids like to listen to authors read from their books – especially when the writer offers insight into the process. They like to know, for example, where the idea for a story or poem came from.
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
Reviews
Kate Hall: “All Squawk & Caw”
This writing is not nearly as extreme as some lang-po, but clearly it is moving line to line in response to something other than normal logic or normal music. Poetry, of course, does not need to trade with anything “normal” when it comes to music and logic, though there are times in Hall’s work when it is hard to grasp what she is after
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
Reviews
David Cavanagh: Falling Body
Falling Body probes the gaps between expectation and reality in viewing the self as an aging, mortal creature in a world of other such creatures.
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
Articles
A World Apart? Bringing Poetry into Slovenian Classrooms
Many students complain to us that their Slovenian literature classes murdered any desire to read. We take these complaints with a grain of salt because we assume that these young people are exaggerating and because, as teachers, we cannot fathom any educator wielding such power.
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
Articles
What Makes a Poem a Poem?
We feel dull if we don’t get a joke immediately, but, as already noted, the flash of insight into a poem is unlikely to arrive quickly. So reading a poem is ideally an activity of leisure.
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
Articles
The Sonnet as Mathematical Object
Considered mathematically, in consolidating a ratio of 6 to 4½, it mimes exactly the relation of octave to sestet, or 8 to 6, of the staple Petrarchan sonnet. (Actually, looked at in reverse, the ratio is .750 to 1, relatively close to the Fibonacci number.)
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
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