Kategorie: USA

Lohnpoeten gesucht

In Atlantik City (New Jersey) the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority wants to hire a poet or poets for live poetry readings every Thursday at a farmers market the agency sponsors in Atlantic City each summer. Poets be warned, though. The CRDA is making it clear that… Continue Reading „Lohnpoeten gesucht“

„ich will verstanden werden / nur von dir nicht“

I want to be understood, just not by you (aus Ch. Bernstein: Me and my Pharao) Bernstein ist Jahrgang 1950, einer der führenden Protagonisten der L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E-Poetry, die nach einer von ihm zusammen mit Bruce Andrews gegründeten Zeitschrift benannt wurde. Er wurde inzwischen Professor, lange… Continue Reading „„ich will verstanden werden / nur von dir nicht““

American Life in Poetry: Column 519

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Many of us have built models from kits—planes, ships, cars. Here’s Robert Hedin, a Minnesota poet and the director of The Anderson Center at Tower View in Red Wing, trying to assemble a little order while his father… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 519“

American Life in Poetry: Column 518

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Several years ago, Judith Kitchen and I published an anthology of poems about birds, and since then I keep finding ones I wished we’d known about at the time. Here’s one by Barbara Ellen Sorensen, who lives in… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 518“

Pulitzer Prizes 2015

The 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners Poetry For a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000). Awarded to „Digest,“ by Gregory Pardlo (Four Way Books), clear-voiced poems that bring readers the news from 21st Century America, rich with thought,… Continue Reading „Pulitzer Prizes 2015“

American Life in Poetry: Column 517

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE The Dalai Llama has said that dying is just getting a new set of clothes. Here’s an interesting take on what it may be like for the newly departed, casting off their burdens and moving with enthusiasm into… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 517“

Nasty, brash and haughty

IN OCTOBER 1865, a 22-year-old wordsmith living on Ashburton Place, behind the Massachusetts State House, filed what has to be one of the nastiest book reviews ever published. The volume before him was “an insult to art,” a brash and haughty Henry James told readers… Continue Reading „Nasty, brash and haughty“

Some poems for pleasure

It’s National Poetry Month and You Haven’t Read a Single Poem Yet, Have You? I don’t know many people who like poetry, though I do know a good number of people who read. Poetry remains rarefied and uninviting—or is the better word unappealing?—which is… Continue Reading „Some poems for pleasure“

20 Black American Poets

In 1996 the Academy of American Poets dubbed April National Poetry Month to celebrate the richness of American poetry. In its honor, here are 20 black American poets who have shown brilliance in their art and service to the community. Poets include: Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes,… Continue Reading „20 Black American Poets“

So schwer wie Gott ist das Gehirn

Ihre Zurückgezogenheit war der Schutz eines freien, wissbegierigen und schöpferischen Geistes, der sich nicht nur der Natur öffnete und Seelenzustände genau erforschte, sondern sich für Ökonomie ebenso interessierte wie für Naturwissenschaften – und für die politischen Ereignisse ihrer Zeit: Der amerikanische Bürgerkrieg (1861-1865) war… Continue Reading „So schwer wie Gott ist das Gehirn“

American Life in Poetry: Column 516

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Kurt Brown was a talented poet who died in 2013, and his posthumous selected and new poems opens with this touching late poem to his wife, Laure-Anne. BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE The Kiss That kiss I… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 516“

For the First Time in 150 Years: Walt Whitman’s Civil War ‘Drum-Taps’

“I intend to move heaven & earth to publish my ‘Drum-Taps’ as soon as I am able to go around,” Walt Whitman told his friend William O’Connor in 1864, after a mysterious illness, likely contracted from the hospital where he nursed soldiers, claimed his… Continue Reading „For the First Time in 150 Years: Walt Whitman’s Civil War ‘Drum-Taps’“

Dass die deutschsprachige Lyrik des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts ohne das Schreibheft im Ganzen etwas provinzieller wäre

„Der Leser und Sammler Norbert Wehr überrascht sein Publikum immer wieder mit Neuem, Un-Erhörtem, nie Gesehenem“, schrieb Hannes Krauss (Uni DuE), als Norbert Wehr 2010 den Literaturpreis Ruhr erhielt. Die ZEIT nennt ihn einen „Scout, der uns zeigt, wie anderswo gedacht und gedichtet wird“, und der Standard einen Sammler „ungewöhnliche[r], schöne[r] und… Continue Reading „Dass die deutschsprachige Lyrik des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts ohne das Schreibheft im Ganzen etwas provinzieller wäre“

American Life in Poetry: Column 515

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Dogs are smart enough to get people to take care of them, a skill that a lot of people haven’t learned, but they’re still wild at the heart. Paul S. Piper lives in Washington. Dog and Snow Dog… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 515“

Cowboy poets of Idaho

Cowboys are generally known to be rugged and out riding on the range, but they can also be good poets. Today [21.3.] marks the 9th annual cowboy poetry and music gathering in Hagerman. „We have people come here every year, just because they like… Continue Reading „Cowboy poets of Idaho“