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Schlagwort: American Life in Poetry
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE One of my favorite poems is by Ruth Stone, about eating at a McDonald’s, and I have myself written a poem about a lunch at Arby’s. To these fast-food poems I now propose we add this fine one… Continue Reading „81. American Life in Poetry: Column 387“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE A while back, we published a poem about a mockingbird, but just because one poet has written a poem about something, he or she doesn’t hold rights to the subject in perpetuity. Here’s another fine mockingbird poem from… Continue Reading „59. American Life in Poetry: Column 386“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE I am very fond of poems that don’t use more words than they have to. They’re easier to carry around in your memory. There are Chinese poems written 1300 years ago that have survived intact at least in… Continue Reading „56. American Life in Poetry: Column 385“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE It would be nice if we could all get one last ride through a part of our lives we’d left behind. Patrick Phillips, who lives in Brooklyn, is our guide and pilot in this fine poem. Elegy with… Continue Reading „24. American Life in Poetry: Column 384“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE An exchange of stories is frequently one of the first steps toward a friendship. Here’s the recollection of one of those exchanges, by Dorianne Laux, who lives and teaches in North Carolina. Family Stories I had a boyfriend… Continue Reading „79. American Life in Poetry: Column 378“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE I don’t think we’ve ever published a poem about a drinker. Though there are lots of poems on this topic, many of them are too judgmental for my liking. But here’s one I like, by Jeanne Wagner, of… Continue Reading „123. American Life in Poetry: Column 366“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Somebody tells somebody else about something that happened. It comes naturally. We’ve been doing that for as long as our species has been around. But to elevate an anecdote into art requires more than just relating an incident.… Continue Reading „9. American Life in Poetry: Column 345“
1. American Life in Poetry: Column 344
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE I love listening to shop talk, to overhear people talking about their work. Their speech is not only rich with the colorful names of tools and processes, but it’s also full of resignation. A job is, after… Continue Reading „1. American Life in Poetry: Column 344“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Most of us have received the delayed news of the death of a family member or friend, and perhaps have reflected on lost opportunities. Here’s a fine poem by J. T. Ledbetter, who lives in California but… Continue Reading „134. American Life in Poetry: Column 343“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Your high school English teacher made an effort to teach you and your bored classmates about sonnets, which have specific patterns of rhyme, and he or she used as an example a great poem by Keats or… Continue Reading „83. American Life in Poetry: Column 342“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Here’s a poem of mixed feelings by Don Thompson to help us launch October. Thompson lives in Buttonwillow, California, which sounds like the name of a town in a children’s story, don’t you think? October … Continue Reading „44. American Life in Poetry: Column 341“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE I like birds, and poems about birds, and several years ago I co-edited an anthology of bird poems called The Poets Guide to the Birds. I wish Judith Harris had written this lovely description of a mockingbird in… Continue Reading „35. American Life in Poetry: Column 340“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE People have been learning to cook since our ancient ancestors discovered fire, and most of us learn from somebody who knows how. I love this little poem by Daniel Nyikos of Utah, for its contemporary take on accepting… Continue Reading „114. American Life in Poetry: Column 339“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE We all hope our children’s lives will be better than our own, and invest in that hope in a variety of ways. Here Michael Ryan of California compares what we can provide for them with what we… Continue Reading „108. American Life in Poetry: Column 338“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE South Dakota poet Leo Dangel has written some of the best and truest poems about rural life that I’m aware of. Here’s a fine one about a chance discovery. Behind the Plow I look in the turned sod… Continue Reading „38. American Life in Poetry: Column 337“
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