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Announcing the 2014-2015 Class of Berlin Prize Fellows Proudly congratulating the Academy’s seventeenth class The American Academy in Berlin is proud to announce the twenty-five recipients of the Berlin Prize Fellowship for the fall 2014 and spring 2015 terms. The highly competitive Berlin Prize… Continue Reading „18. The Berlin Prize“
When I was first asked to make a list of poetry collections for people who think they don’t like poetry, my first thought was, „Well, isn’t that just about everyone?“ Not quite–I do have nearly 2,000 friends on Facebook, of whom the majority are… Continue Reading „16. Poems for people who think they don’t like poetry“
Recently a piece has made its way around poetry circles via the relatively obscure web lit magazine, Claudius App. Written by “Jacqueline Rigault” and skewering dozens of poets, both well-known and emerging, the piece on its surface is just the kind of sensationalistic silliness… Continue Reading „12. Hate speech“
But it’s astonishing how far Cummings’s literary star has fallen. When he died in 1962, the only poet more widely read in the United States was Robert Frost. The man whom Ezra Pound called “Whitman’s one living descendant” is rarely read today nor taught… Continue Reading „6. Rediscover Cummings?“
In the 4th part of the National Poetry Month blog, I ask America’s best poets to answer five more questions by readers of poetry. 1. April 23 is Shakespeare’s 450th anniversary. If you went back in time and could ask him one question, what… Continue Reading „3. Is poetry useful?“
Dear Michael, Poetry matters. It deserves the same serious, intellectual, in-depth consideration as global politics, philosophy, and economics. And Boston Review delivers. But to continue giving you the great poetry content you’ve come to expect, we need your support. Subscribe today to get the May/June… Continue Reading „104. Poetry matters“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Let’s celebrate the first warm days of spring with a poem for mushroom hunters, this one by Amy Fleury, who lives in Louisiana. First Morel Up from wood rot, wrinkling up from duff and homely damps, spore-born and… Continue Reading „97. American Life in Poetry: Column 474“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE What might have been? I’d guess we’ve all asked that at one time or another. Here’s a fine what-might-have-been poem by Andrea Hollander, who lives in Portland, Oregon. Ex Long after I married you, I found myself in his… Continue Reading „74. American Life in Poetry: Column 472“
Afaa Michael Weaver’s poetry collection The Government of Nature has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. The prize, based at Claremont Graduate University, is awarded to a mid-career poet „to both honor the poet and provide the resources that allow artists to continue… Continue Reading „63. $100,000 für Dichter“
Der in Indien geborene Dichter Vijay Seshadri erhält den Pulitzerpreis in der Kategorie Lyrik für sein Buch „3 Sections“. Die Pulitzerpreise für Journalismus, Literatur, Drama und Musik wurden zum 98. Mal vergeben. Mr. Seshadris ‚3 Sections‘ ist eine Sammlung herausragender Gedichte, „die das menschliche… Continue Reading „53. Pulitzerpreis“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Despite having once been bitten by a rabid bat, and survived, much to the disappointment of my critics, I find bats fascinating, and Peggy Shumaker of Alaska has written a fine poem about them. I am especially fond… Continue Reading „50. American Life in Poetry: Column 471“
Ein gutes Förderungsmodell, finde ich: A young Korean-American poet has received a $5,000 award for first-time writers that also ensures the publication and thousands of sales of her debut collection. Hannah Sanghee Park has won the Walt Whitman Award, the Academy of American Poets… Continue Reading „36. Walt Whitman Award“
Zu den merkwürdigsten Phänomenen der amerikanischen Literatur zählt das Spätwerk Herman Melvilles. Nach den finanziellen Misserfolgen seiner heute berühmten, damals jedoch weitgehend verschmähten Romane war Melville gezwungen, einen schlechtbezahlten Posten als Zollinspektor im New Yorker Hafen anzunehmen. Er wandte sich nun verstärkt der lyrischen… Continue Reading „33. Melvilles Lyrik“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Considering that I’m a dog lover, I haven’t included nearly enough dog poems in this column. My own dog, Howard, now in his dotage, has never learned a trick of any kind, nor learned to behave, so I… Continue Reading „19. American Life in Poetry: Column 470“
PORTLAND, Maine — A poet and filmmaker plans to visit and film more than 80 poets‘ graves in 11 western states in the coming months. Freeport resident Walter Skold, a 53-year-old former middle school computer teacher, said the journey will bring his total number… Continue Reading „6. Poets‘ graves“
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