National Poetry Month
April 2nd, 2008 by Doug Schnitzspahn
It’s National Poetry Month and Radha and I are taking on Robert Lee Brewer’s challenge to write one poem a day (he even suggests two for Tuesdays for true freaks) for the month of April. The challenge, as well as fantastic content on how to write and publish poetry, is posted on Brewer’s site Poetic Asides.
If you’re not up for it, here’s a short list of the poetry we’ve been reading recently.
Robert Hass, Time and Materials; Richard Kenney, The One-Strand River; Julia Hartwig, In Praise of the Unfinished; Thomas Transtromer, The Great Enigma; Adam Zagajewski, Eternal Enemies; W.S. Merwin translator, Purgatorio; Zbigniew Herbert, The Collected Poems: 1956-1998
Plus, we have been listening to Kris Delmhorst’s Strange Conversation, songs that are either famous poems verbatim or responses to them. It’s a fantastic selection of poems/songs—with “Light of the Light” and “Everything Is Music” capturing the ecstatic mysticism of Whitman and Rumi; “Pretty How Town” turning e.e. cummings into a folk romp; and “Galuppi Baldassare” uptempo-ing Browning’s insight on art and ashes.
James wrote on 04/9/08 at 4:05 pm :
Heh, I can’t wait to see what you guys write on my birthday next Monday (also the birthday of Greg Maddux and Pete Rose!)