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Schlagwort: American Life in Poetry
63. American Life in Poetry: Column 416
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE This kite-flying poem caught me right up and sent me flying as soon as Robert Gibb described those dimestore kites furled tighter than umbrellas, a perfect image. Gibb lives in Pennsylvania. Kites Come March we’d find them In… Continue Reading „63. American Life in Poetry: Column 416“
39. American Life in Poetry: Column 415
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE I’ve recently published a children’s book about a man who is so fussy about his yard that he loses his home, so I was immediately taken by this fine poem by Lynne Sharon Schwartz about a similar man.… Continue Reading „39. American Life in Poetry: Column 415“
124. American Life in Poetry: Column 414
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE When spring finally arrives, it can be fun to see what winter left behind, and Jeffrey Harrison of Massachusetts is doing just that in this amusing poem. Mailboxes in Late Winter It’s a motley lot. A few still… Continue Reading „124. American Life in Poetry: Column 414“
114. American Life in Poetry: Column 413
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Every day, hundreds of thousands of us are preoccupied with keeping up a civil if not loving relationship with our parents. In this poem, Mark Irwin (who lives in Colorado) does a beautiful job in portraying, in a… Continue Reading „114. American Life in Poetry: Column 413“
103. American Life in Poetry: Column 412
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Mark Sanders, who lives in Texas, is not only a good poet, but he’s an old friend to the poetry of my home ground, working hard as teacher, editor, and publisher to bring Great Plains poetry to the… Continue Reading „103. American Life in Poetry: Column 412“
98. Poetry Foundation Celebrates National Poetry Month
Free issues of Poetry, new educational resources, Record-a-Poem, and more CHICAGO —The Poetry Foundation is pleased to announce an exciting array of literary programs and poetry events across the country in celebration of National Poetry Month, April 2013. Poetry Fifty thousand free copies of Poetry’s… Continue Reading „98. Poetry Foundation Celebrates National Poetry Month“
80. American Life in Poetry: Column 411
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE It seems that love poems have a better chance of being passed around from person to person than other poems, and here’s one by Richard M. Berlin, who lives in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts, that we’d… Continue Reading „80. American Life in Poetry: Column 411“
14. American Life in Poetry: Column 410
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE If you’ve followed this column through a good part of the seven years we’ve been publishing it, you know how hooked I am on poems that take a close look at the ordinary world. Here’s a fine poem… Continue Reading „14. American Life in Poetry: Column 410“
97. American Life in Poetry: Column 409
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE It’s wonderful when a very young person discovers the pleasures of poetry and gives it a try. Here’s a poem by a first grader, Andrew Jones of Tacoma, Washington, who, if we’re lucky, will go on to write… Continue Reading „97. American Life in Poetry: Column 409“
90. American Life in Poetry: Column 408
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Here’s a lovely poem for the caregivers among us, by Terri Kirby Erickson, who lives in North Carolina. Sponge Bath Draped in towels, my grandmother sits in a hard-backed chair, a white bowl of soapy water on the… Continue Reading „90. American Life in Poetry: Column 408“
84. American Life in Poetry: Column 407
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Kansas is flat and we all know that. So, where does a boy go when he feels like sledding down a hill? Casey Pycior, raised in Kansas, tells us. Sledding in Wichita As cars pass, laboring through the… Continue Reading „84. American Life in Poetry: Column 407“
82. American Life in Poetry: Column 405
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE When we began this column in 2005, I determined not to include any of my own poems because I wanted to introduce our readers to the work of as many of the other American poets as I could.… Continue Reading „82. American Life in Poetry: Column 405“
19. American Life in Poetry: Column 404
[Bäume gehn immer, oder?] BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE The first winter my wife and I lived in the country, I brought a wild juniper tree in from our pasture and prepared to decorate it for Christmas. As it began to warm up,… Continue Reading „19. American Life in Poetry: Column 404“
4. American Life in Poetry: Column 403
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Among the most ancient uses for language are descriptions of places, when a person has experienced something he or she wants to tell somebody else about. Some of these get condensed and transformed into poetry, and here’s a… Continue Reading „4. American Life in Poetry: Column 403“
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