Tag: poetry themes
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“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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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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