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Schlagwort: American Life in Poetry
81. American Life in Poetry: Column 269
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE It is enough for me as a reader that a poem take from life a single moment and hold it up for me to look at. There need not be anything sensational or unusual or peculiar about that… Continue Reading „81. American Life in Poetry: Column 269“
47. American Life in Poetry: Column 268
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE If writers are both skilled and lucky, they may write something that will carry their words into the future, past the hour of their own deaths. I’d guess all writers hope for this, and the following poem by… Continue Reading „47. American Life in Poetry: Column 268“
10. American Life in Poetry: Column 267
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Here’s a poem by Susan Meyers, of South Carolina, about the most ordinary of activities, washing the dishes, but in this instance remembering this ordinary routine provides an opportunity for speculation about the private pleasures of a lost… Continue Reading „10. American Life in Poetry: Column 267“
129. American Life in Poetry: Column 266
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE The great American poet William Carlos Williams taught us that if a poem can capture a moment in life, and bathe it in the light of the poet’s close attention, and make it feel fresh and new, that’s… Continue Reading „129. American Life in Poetry: Column 266“
96. American Life in Poetry: Column 265
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Tell a whiny child that she sounds like a broken record, and she’s likely to say, “What’s a record?” Jeff Daniel Marion, a Tennessee poet, tells us not only what 78 rpm records were, but what they meant… Continue Reading „96. American Life in Poetry: Column 265“
58. American Life in Poetry: Column 264
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Wendy Videlock lives in western Colorado, where a person can stop to study what an owl has left behind without being run over by a taxi. The Owl Beneath her nest, a shrew’s head, a finch’s beak and… Continue Reading „58. American Life in Poetry: Column 264“
26. American Life in Poetry Celebrates Fifth Anniversary
Free Column Restores Poetry’s Place in Newspapers CHICAGO — The Poetry Foundation is pleased to announce the fifth anniversary of American Life in Poetry, the weekly newspaper column featuring a poem selected and briefly introduced by former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. Running regularly… Continue Reading „26. American Life in Poetry Celebrates Fifth Anniversary“
23. American Life in Poetry: Column 263
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Music lessons, well, maybe 80 out of every 100 of us had them, once, and a few of us went on to play our chosen instruments all our lives. But the rest of us? I still own a… Continue Reading „23. American Life in Poetry: Column 263“
118. American Life in Poetry: Column 261
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE All over this country, marriage counselors and therapists are right now speaking to couples about unspoken things. In this poem, Andrea Hollander Budy, an Arkansas poet, shows us one of those couples, suffering from things done and undone.… Continue Reading „118. American Life in Poetry: Column 261“
110. American Life in Poetry: Column 260
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE These days are brim full of bad news about our economy—businesses closing, people losing their houses, their jobs. If there’s any comfort in a situation like this, it’s in the fact that there’s a big community of sufferers.… Continue Reading „110. American Life in Poetry: Column 260“
47. American Life in Poetry: Column 259
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Wisconsin writer Freya Manfred is not only a fine poet but the daughter of the late Frederick Manfred, a distinguished novelist of the American west. Here is a lovely snapshot of her father, whom I cherished among my… Continue Reading „47. American Life in Poetry: Column 259“
2. American Life in Poetry: Column 258
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE This marks the fourth time we’ve published a poem by David Baker, one of my favorite writers. Baker lives in Granville, Ohio, and teaches at Denison University. He is also the poetry editor for the distinguished Kenyon Review.… Continue Reading „2. American Life in Poetry: Column 258“
151. American Life in Poetry: Column 257
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Often when I dig some change out of my jeans pocket to pay somebody for something, the pennies and nickels are accompanied by a big gob of blue lint. So it’s no wonder that I was taken with… Continue Reading „151. American Life in Poetry: Column 257“
91. American Life in Poetry: Column 256
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE A poem is an experience like any other, and we can learn as much or more about, say, an apple from a poem about an apple as from the apple itself. Since I was a boy, I’ve been… Continue Reading „91. American Life in Poetry: Column 256“
67. American Life in Poetry: Column 255
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE A honeymoon. How often does one happen according to the dreams that preceded it? In this poem, Wesley McNair, a poet from Maine, describes a first night of marriage in a tawdry place. But all’s well that ends… Continue Reading „67. American Life in Poetry: Column 255“
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