POETRY STUFF
The following quote by Robert Bly touches on why poetry training is at the very heart of developing our individual creativity.
“While our European-American traditions question and argue, and . . . teach poetry to sullen students in English classes, other cultures, speaking Spanish, Russian, Arabic, African, Indian grow up inside poems, drenched through with poetic metaphors and rhythm. As we learn to take a poem apart, to get its meaning, they learn to listen and recite.
By drawing this sharp contrast with other cultures, we are pointing to a defect in ours. We live in a poetically undeveloped nation. Without the fanciful delicacy and the powerful truths that poems convey, emotions and imagination flatten out. There’s a lack of spirit, of vision. This loss in the heart appears as a loss of heart to take up the great cultural challenges . . . In this sense we have come to think that working in poetry and myth . . . is a therapy of the culture at its psychic roots.”
Poetry Links
Some of my favorite links to the poetry world - each one a universe. Check them out . Enjoy. Except for the last, I have stolen this link list from Norton Poets Online: http://www.nortonpoets.com/welcome.htm
:: The Academy of American Poets: http://www.poets.org/
The Academy of American Poets was founded in 1934 to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry. Their site includes events listings and over 600 poems online, both written and spoken.
:: The American Poetry Review: http://www.aprweb.org/
Since 1972, the American Poetry Review has been publishing work by new and talented poets and critics. The magazine has helped to make poetry a more public art form without compromising the art of poetry.
:: Atlantic Unbound Poetry Pages: http://www.theatlantic.com/index/fiction
Includes interviews and lots of audio poetry, as well as an archive of all the poetry published in the digital edition since 1993.
:: Bartleby.com: http://www.bartleby.com/
Another extensive and free collection of poetry from all over the world and dating as far back as Homer.
:: The Contemporary Poetry Review: http://www.cprw.com/
Includes reviews of poetry as well as interviews with new poets, recommendations for poetry collections and critical essays and links to past reviews.
:: Electronic Poetry Center: SUNY Buffalo: http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/
The Electronic Poetry Center (EPC) is a World Wide Web resource for innovative writing. Founded in 1994, the EPC produces the literary journal RIF/T and comprehensively archives related electronic resources. It provides a needed focus to Internet poetry by hosting select publications and organizing connections to others. The EPC is a resource for scholars, students, and writers. The EPC also offers a significant new vision of distance education, not only providing course syllabi and texts, but creating a variety of interactive spaces for poets, critics, and students within the Internet community.
:: Favorite Poem Project: http://www.favoritepoem.org/
A popular website, featuring an interactive gallery for viewing the Favorite Poem videos and a growing forum for teachers and students.
:: KidzPage: http://gardenofsong.com/kidzpage/
A great way for parents to introduce their children to poetry and encourage them to write their own verse. Includes poetry written by children all over the world as well as classic children's poetry such as Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky.
:: Modern American Poetry: http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/index.htm
This online companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry has detailed biographical information, essays and links for over 160 key American poets.
:: Poems That Go: http://www.poemsthatgo.com/
A magazine of multimedia poems accompanied by music and graphics. The site also features links to other multimedia poetry as well as essays on the aesthetics of new media and poetry. A great example of how technology is revolutionizing art.
:: Poems Out Loud: http://www.poemsoutloud.net/
A National Poetry Month celebration featuring Robert Pinsky on the art of reading poems out loud. The site also features many Norton Poets with essays, audio, and video.
:: Poetry: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/
Since its founding in 1912, Poetry has presented, often for the very first time, virtually every significant poet of the century. Now in its ninth decade of uninterrupted monthly publication, the magazine remains the premier forum for contemporary poetry.
:: The Poetry Archives: http://www.emule.com/poetry/
Poetry Previews has an ever-expanding collection of thousands of classical poems and biographies of their authors. This site is excellent for reading the collected works of a poet, discovering classic poetry that you weren't taught in school or simply rereading one of your all-time favorites. :: Poetry Daily: http://poems.com/
Poetry Daily is an anthology of contemporary poetry which each day brings you a new poem from books, magazines and journals currently in print.
Poet’s & Writer’s: http://www.pw.org/
In celebration of National Poetry Month, Poets & Writers, in conjunction with DailyLit, will post a poem every day throughout April. Masters of Verse: Thirty Poems by Late, Great Poets offers some of the best-known poems (together with a few uncommon selections) for readers who want to rediscover the lasting power of poetry.
The following quote by Robert Bly touches on why poetry training is at the very heart of developing our individual creativity.
“While our European-American traditions question and argue, and . . . teach poetry to sullen students in English classes, other cultures, speaking Spanish, Russian, Arabic, African, Indian grow up inside poems, drenched through with poetic metaphors and rhythm. As we learn to take a poem apart, to get its meaning, they learn to listen and recite.
By drawing this sharp contrast with other cultures, we are pointing to a defect in ours. We live in a poetically undeveloped nation. Without the fanciful delicacy and the powerful truths that poems convey, emotions and imagination flatten out. There’s a lack of spirit, of vision. This loss in the heart appears as a loss of heart to take up the great cultural challenges . . . In this sense we have come to think that working in poetry and myth . . . is a therapy of the culture at its psychic roots.”
Poetry Links
Some of my favorite links to the poetry world - each one a universe. Check them out . Enjoy. Except for the last, I have stolen this link list from Norton Poets Online: http://www.nortonpoets.com/welcome.htm
:: The Academy of American Poets: http://www.poets.org/
The Academy of American Poets was founded in 1934 to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry. Their site includes events listings and over 600 poems online, both written and spoken.
:: The American Poetry Review: http://www.aprweb.org/
Since 1972, the American Poetry Review has been publishing work by new and talented poets and critics. The magazine has helped to make poetry a more public art form without compromising the art of poetry.
:: Atlantic Unbound Poetry Pages: http://www.theatlantic.com/index/fiction
Includes interviews and lots of audio poetry, as well as an archive of all the poetry published in the digital edition since 1993.
:: Bartleby.com: http://www.bartleby.com/
Another extensive and free collection of poetry from all over the world and dating as far back as Homer.
:: The Contemporary Poetry Review: http://www.cprw.com/
Includes reviews of poetry as well as interviews with new poets, recommendations for poetry collections and critical essays and links to past reviews.
:: Electronic Poetry Center: SUNY Buffalo: http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/
The Electronic Poetry Center (EPC) is a World Wide Web resource for innovative writing. Founded in 1994, the EPC produces the literary journal RIF/T and comprehensively archives related electronic resources. It provides a needed focus to Internet poetry by hosting select publications and organizing connections to others. The EPC is a resource for scholars, students, and writers. The EPC also offers a significant new vision of distance education, not only providing course syllabi and texts, but creating a variety of interactive spaces for poets, critics, and students within the Internet community.
:: Favorite Poem Project: http://www.favoritepoem.org/
A popular website, featuring an interactive gallery for viewing the Favorite Poem videos and a growing forum for teachers and students.
:: KidzPage: http://gardenofsong.com/kidzpage/
A great way for parents to introduce their children to poetry and encourage them to write their own verse. Includes poetry written by children all over the world as well as classic children's poetry such as Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky.
:: Modern American Poetry: http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/index.htm
This online companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry has detailed biographical information, essays and links for over 160 key American poets.
:: Poems That Go: http://www.poemsthatgo.com/
A magazine of multimedia poems accompanied by music and graphics. The site also features links to other multimedia poetry as well as essays on the aesthetics of new media and poetry. A great example of how technology is revolutionizing art.
:: Poems Out Loud: http://www.poemsoutloud.net/
A National Poetry Month celebration featuring Robert Pinsky on the art of reading poems out loud. The site also features many Norton Poets with essays, audio, and video.
:: Poetry: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/
Since its founding in 1912, Poetry has presented, often for the very first time, virtually every significant poet of the century. Now in its ninth decade of uninterrupted monthly publication, the magazine remains the premier forum for contemporary poetry.
:: The Poetry Archives: http://www.emule.com/poetry/
Poetry Previews has an ever-expanding collection of thousands of classical poems and biographies of their authors. This site is excellent for reading the collected works of a poet, discovering classic poetry that you weren't taught in school or simply rereading one of your all-time favorites. :: Poetry Daily: http://poems.com/
Poetry Daily is an anthology of contemporary poetry which each day brings you a new poem from books, magazines and journals currently in print.
Poet’s & Writer’s: http://www.pw.org/
In celebration of National Poetry Month, Poets & Writers, in conjunction with DailyLit, will post a poem every day throughout April. Masters of Verse: Thirty Poems by Late, Great Poets offers some of the best-known poems (together with a few uncommon selections) for readers who want to rediscover the lasting power of poetry.