United States Poets Laureate: Frequently Asked Questions Answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about the U.S. poet laureateship. New Guides to Poets Laureate Available New Web guides to online resources for former U.S. poets laureate Stanley Kunitz, Robert Pinsky, Rita Dove, and Robert Hass are now available. Poet Laureate Charles Simic Gives Swan Song Lecture Charles Simic made the final appearance of his tenure as U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry when he presented a lecture on poetry translation at the Library of Congress. XVI Poetry Marathon of Teatro de la Luna The Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress hosted an afternoon of Spanish poetry featuring poets from Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean. Each poet read a selection in Spanish, followed by an open discussion in English moderated by Dominican poet Rei Berroa of George Mason University. Featured poets were Spaniards Ana Rossetti, Juan Carlos Mestre and Vicente Cervera Salinas. From Mexico were Hector Carretto, Dana Gelinas, Hernan Bravo Varela and Ciprian Cabrera Jasso. Also participating were Mateo Morrison, Dominican Republic; Otoniel Guevara, El Salvador; Marcelo Pellegrini, Chile; Ivon Gordon-Vailakis, Ecuador; and Juana Goergen, Puerto Rico. Octavio Paz Symposium Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was a world-famous poet, writer and essayist. His writing, which garnered him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990, has been characterized as impassioned and marked with sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity. A two-hour symposium, "A Tribute to Octavio Paz," was sponsored by the Library's Hispanic Division and the Poetry Office, in cooperation with the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington, D.C. United States Poets Laureate: A Guide to Online Resources Locate online resources related to U.S. poets laureate. Completed guides link to Library of Congress Web pages that include information on the poet laureate's life and work, as well as to external Web sites that feature biographical information, interviews, poems, audio, video, and other materials that highlight the activities of each poet.
Thirteen Hundred Rats T. Coraghessan Boyle Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000 There was a man in our village who never in his life had a pet of any kind until his wife died. By my calculation, Gerard Loomis was in his mid-fifties when Marietta was taken from him, but at the ceremony in the chapel he looked so scorched and . . . Songs of a Season Maureen N. McLane Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000 for here or to go--
a glass mug, a paper cup--
life is fast, art slow
only a few years
before all that I am blows
free, subatomic
not for me that life
the careless joy of the dog
not for me that leap
how to say
beautiful weekend
in . . . After Love Jack Gilbert Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000 He is watching the music with his eyes closed.
Hearing the piano like a man moving
through the woods thinking by feeling.
The orchestra up in the trees, the heart below,
step by step. The music hurrying sometimes,
but always returning to quiet, like the man
remembering and hoping. It . . . The Evening Is Tranquil, and Dawn Is a Thousand Miles Away Charles Wright Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000 The mares go down for their evening feed
into the meadow grass.
Two pine trees sway the invisible wind--
some sway, some don’t sway.
The heart of the world lies open, leached and ticking with sunlight
For just a minute or so.
The mares have their heads on the ground . . . Return of the Prodigal Charles Wright Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000 Now comes summer, water clear, clouds heavy with weeping.
Tall grasses are silver-veined.
Little puddles of sunlight collect
in low places deep in the woods.
Lupine and paintbrush stoic in ditch weed,
larch rust a smear on the mountainside.
No light on ridge line.
Zodiac pinwheels across the heavens . . . Propofol Karl Kirchwey Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000 Moly, mandragora, milk of oblivion:
I said to Doctor Day, “You bring on night.”
“But then,” he said, “I bring day back again,”
and smiled; except his smile was thin and slight.
I said to him, “Sleep and Death were brothers,
you know. They carry off great Troy’s Sarpedon
in . . .
Contemporary American Poetry - Reading for the English 88 class at the University of Pennsylvania. Several hundred links.
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Art4net - Poetry Channel - Links for these poets: Baudelaire, Byron, Rimbaud, Shelley, Keats, and Rilke. And a painting/portrait for each of the poets.
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Bartleby.com - Online publisher of classic works of poetry, literature, and reference.
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Everypoet.com - A poetry portal, featuring links to famous poets throughout history, personal poetry pages, resources, and books. 1046 links as of March, 2001.
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Find Poetry - findpoetry.com. From Shakespeare to People's Poems. Add your poetry site for free or search through thousands of poetry pages.
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Patrick Martin's Poetry Resource - A large, general directory of print-published poets from all periods, plus many web-published. 700 links, most with comments by Patrick.
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Poetry and Literary Magazines, Journals, and Ezines - Consists of an extensive list of poetry magazines and journals on the 'Net, compiled by American poet Frederick Glaysher.
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Poetry Portal - Several hundred listings grouped into: Poetry online, Ezines, Evaluations, Book news, Competitions, Chit-Chat, and Poetry courses.
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The Poetry Webring - Home page of The Poetry Webring, a grouping of over 1600 poetry related sites. Incorporates resources, links and a poetry webzine.
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Where to Do Research on Poets and Poetry - For 18 famous poets, a link to what the editor considers the best site for links for that poet. Part of the larger wheretodoresearch.com directory.
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