Tag: Erato
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5 Poems for Juneteenth
From joy as resistance to Langston Hughes’ dropkicking doors to a poem from a current High Schooler, here are 5 poems to celebrate Black excellence! Poetry is the perfect medium for freedom. It liberates language from the harsh confines of good sense, from the tyranny of perfect punctuation, from the endless grind of Logic and…
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“Suburban Pastoral” by Dave Lucas
Evening descends on a Proustian suburb in Dave Lucas’ “Suburban Pastoral.” Beauty can be found anywhere. Ditto, inspiration. While melodrama and grandeur might seem necessary to make Great Art – the lofty, soul-stirring heights of Gothic architecture, the knee-quaking, awe-inspiring sublimity of the ocean, the mountains, the desert, the night sky – inspiration and beauty…
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“Saturday Night as an Adult” by Anne Carson
An internet kerfuffle earlier this week offered some intriguing insights into generational gaps and the current book scene. On June 5, at 9:52 a.m., New Yorker cultural writer Hannah Williams posted an off-handed tweet about Canadian-poet-in-exile Anne Carson, stating that she found herself thinking often of a short piece of prose poetry published a few…
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“Polaroid Ode” by Cori A. Winrock
For Federico Durand. Something has been inexplicably lost with the rise of infinite HD digital photography. Maybe it was the inherent finitude of analog photography, the shortage of film and the time, energy, and resources to cultivate it. You had to really think about what you were going to shoot. You had to choose and,…
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“The Sea” by James Reeves
A poem doesn’t have to be complicated to be wonderful. Poetry can be simple. It can also be quiet profound. It’s often both, at the same time. It gives voice to the world around us, in all its incomprehensible wonder and vastness. It helps us to position ourselves within us, writing hymns and lamentations and…
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5 Poems for Cinco de Mayo
Depictions of the battle showing Mexican cavalry overwhelming the French troops below the fort at Loreto. Scene recreated by Francisco P. Miranda. Oil on canvas, 1872.//credit: Francisco P. Miranda May 5, otherwise known as “Cinco de Mayo” is not Mexican Independence Day – that’s September 16. It is an important date for Mexican Independence, though,…
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Melissa Sullivan – “Fade”
Poet and artist Melissa Sullivan reflects on the impermanence of all things in this short, moving springtime poem. Fade All blooms decayPersephone speaks from her Stygian palaceBright blooms are briefDelicate and easily bruisedWe gather our flowers in MayBut we must accept that they too shall fade About Meliss Sullivan Melissa Sullivan is a hedge-wandering art…
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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,…