poetry

Making a Poem with Kindling

Making a poem with kindling is easy. Gather allusions and pine needles…

I tramp a perpetual journey (Whitman)

Section 46, Song of Myself, Walt Whitman

To a Wall of Flame in a Steel Mill, Syracuse, New York, 1969

Larry Levis brings raw emotion to his poetry; “To a Wall of Flame in a Steel Mill, Syracuse, New York, 1969” goes from zero to sixty in 3 seconds.

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival....

Time is Joy (“El tiempo es alegría”)

Pablo Neruda poem.

Ralph Fiennes' Four Quartets

Fiennes' production in which the poem is the script, performed in a theatre with subtle changes of light, and accompanied by film interludes of the locations associated with the poem's four sections.

Paterson

paterson.webp “Paterson” is a long poem written by American modernist poet William Carlos Williams and published in five parts between 1946 and 1951. Williams names the poem “Paterson,” as Patterson, NJ is where he lived and worked as a doctor. The poem is a sprawling and ambitious work that was published in four parts and tend in my reading to go from great (Book 1) to so-so (Book 2), and on downward in overal quality. Just a fragment from the...

Poems of Philip Larkin

Known for his introspective and often pessimistic view of the world.