Tag: 20th Century Poetry

• “from ‘Cancer, or, The Crab’, a section of The Ecliptic” by Joseph Macleod

  

  A poem for Cancer season image: The Crab and the Heron – Gurupada//@Google Arts & Culture As we enter the final week of Cancer, here’s a poem about crabs. This excerpt from Joseph Macleod’s long poem from 1930 captures the eerie unearthly stillness of a moonlit beach, edges blurry and indistinct beneath pale blue light.…

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  July 14, 2023

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• Two Poems About Sunsets

  

  Two great poets use the liminal language of twilight to express transition, longing, passion, memory, and grief. Sunset Photo by Rose White//@AnkhRising8 Twilight is a time of transitions; no longer daytime, not quite night. Everyday objects go soft around the edges, taking on a mythic, magic edge as shadows lengthen, deepen. Songbirds seem to hold…

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  May 25, 2023

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• 3 Poems for AAPI Month

  

  It’s AAPI month, also known as APA month, which stands for Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month or Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, respectively. To celebrate, here are three poems from Asian-American poets. There’s a ghazal about grief, lost love, and memory from Agha Shahid Ali, published in 2003. There’s an elegy for the passing…

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  May 12, 2023

  Poetry, Writing

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• Melissa Sullivan on “Preludes for Memnon I” by Conrad Aiken

  

  “Here are the bickerings of the inconsequential,The chatterings of the ridiculous, the iterationsOf the meaningless.”  How does one write about their favorite poem?  That’s the question that has been running through my mind for the past few weeks. I was asked to write something about my favorite poem, “Preludes for Memnon I” by Conrad Aiken,…

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  April 21, 2023

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