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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Lots of contemporary poems are anecdotal, a brief narration of some event, and what can make them rise above anecdote is when they manage to convey significance, often as the poem closes. Here is an example of one… Continue Reading „84. American Life in Poetry: Column 243“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE There are lots of poems in which a poet expresses belated appreciation for a parent, and if you don’t know Robert Hayden’s poem, “Those Winter Sundays,” you ought to look it up sometime. In this lovely sonnet, Kathy… Continue Reading „38. American Life in Poetry: Column 242“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE I love poems in which the central metaphors are fresh and original, and here’s a marvelous, coiny description of autumn by Elizabeth Klise von Zerneck, who lives in Illinois. Like Coins, November We drove past late fall fields… Continue Reading „12. American Life in Poetry: Column 241“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE We haven’t shown you many poems in which the poet enters another person and speaks through him or her, but it is, of course, an effective and respected way of writing. Here Philip Memmer of Deansboro, N.Y., enters… Continue Reading „142. American Life in Poetry: Column 240“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE It’s likely that if you found the original handwritten manuscript of T. S. Eliot’s groundbreaking poem, “The Waste Land,” you wouldn’t be able to trade it for a candy bar at the Quick Shop on your corner. Here’s… Continue Reading „107. American Life in Poetry: Column 239“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Though some teacher may have made you think that all poetry is deadly serious, chock full of coded meanings and obscure symbols, poems, like other works of art, can be delightfully playful. Here Bruce Guernsey, who divides his… Continue Reading „71. American Life in Poetry: Column 238“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE An aubade is a poem about separation at dawn, but as you’ll see, this one by Dore Kiesselbach, who lives in Minnesota, is about the complex relationship between a son and his mother. Aubade “Take me with you”… Continue Reading „24. American Life in Poetry: Column 237“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Cecilia Woloch teaches in California, and when she’s not with her students she’s off to the Carpathian Mountains of Poland, to help with the farm work. But somehow she resisted her wanderlust just long enough to make this… Continue Reading „150. American Life in Poetry: Column 236“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE I tell my writing students that their most important task is to pay attention to what’s going on around them. God is in the details, as we say. Here David Bottoms, the Poet Laureate of Georgia, tells us… Continue Reading „111. American Life in Poetry: Column 235“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE This week’s poem is by a high school student, Michelle Bennett, who lives in Tukwila, Washington, and here she is taking a look at what comes next, Western Washington University in Bellingham, with everything new about it, including… Continue Reading „77. American Life in Poetry: Column 234“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Diane Glancy is one of our country’s Native American poets, and I recently judged her latest book, Asylum in the Grasslands, the winner of a regional competition. Here is a good example of her clear and steady writing.… Continue Reading „46. American Life in Poetry: Column 233“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE I’ve built many wren houses since my wife and I moved to the country 25 years ago. It’s a good thing to do in the winter. At one point I had so many extra that in the spring… Continue Reading „083. American Life in Poetry: Column 232“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE This column originates on the campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and at the beginning of each semester, we see parents helping their children move into their dorm rooms and apartments and looking a little shaken by the… Continue Reading „052. American Life in Poetry: Column 231“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE It’s been sixty-odd years since I was in the elementary grades, but I clearly remember those first school days in early autumn, when summer was suddenly over and we were all perched in our little desks facing into… Continue Reading „011. American Life in Poetry: Column 230“
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE For over forty years, Mark Vinz, of Moorhead, Minnesota—poet, teacher, publisher—has been a prominent advocate for the literature of the Upper Great Plains. Here’s a recent poem that speaks to growing older. Cautionary Tales Beyond the field of… Continue Reading „41. American Life in Poetry: Column 229“
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