"I would advocate for more use of an anthology. And more memorisation. You may also find that, to begin with, you do not want take such a critical approach and would prefer to follow your nose rather than doing what Hazlitt tells you (although you should read Hazlitt at some point, he is among the … Continue reading Arnold Bennett’s Ten Step Plan for Learning to Appreciate Poetry
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How to Write Poetry to Communicate With Aliens
"If you were to attempt to communicate with an alien lifeform, what would you want to say? And, just as importantly, how would you say it? It’s a question that has inspired countless science fiction stories and fueled real debate between scientists involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Now, a digital artist and academic … Continue reading How to Write Poetry to Communicate With Aliens
All My Life
When it's over, I want tosay: all my lifeI was a bride married toamazement.I was the bridegroom,taking the world into myarms.—Mary Oliver, "When Death Comes"
Instructions For Living a Life
Instructions for living a life:Pay attention.Be astonished.Tell about it. –Mary Oliver, “Sometimes”
Fakokta Dazibaos
Start with a basic principle: yauh peng, yauh leng - in English, inexpensive and beautiful. Empty, alone, a blank canvas five inches across, bounded by ears, separate yet susceptible, social mind virus. Catastrophe has already happened, from one view. Another angle, sees happiness, created whole-cloth out of disposition and a clean heart. Sense, nonsense and … Continue reading Fakokta Dazibaos
NYT Haikus
https://twitter.com/nythaikus/status/1305809368760356869?s=20 https://twitter.com/nythaikus/status/1305875054471897088?s=20 https://twitter.com/nythaikus/status/1305918840778502145?s=20 Not all are masterpieces, but there are some gems here.
The Best of Wendell Barry on Orion
"This week we celebrate Wendell Berry’s eighty-sixth birthday by sharing several of our staff’s all-time favorite essays, poems, short stories, and media clips published in Orion over the past four decades."—Orion Staff, "The Best of Wendell Berry." Orion. August 5, 2020.
For the Sake of Strangers by Dorianne Laux
Lovely, one minute poem. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/152177/for-the-sake-of-strangers
Out in the Cow Field of Life
Out in the cow field of life, there's lot of poop to be found. Some is fresh. Some is wet. Some is old. Some is round. Even if you catalog them all, and describe every detail. The main thing is knowing, how not to step in one.
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn’t hard to master;so many things seem filled with the intentto be lost that their loss is no disaster.Lose something every day.—Elizabeth Bishop, "One Art." Poetry Foundation. 1979.
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