Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

In light of the Great American State Fair, here's the poem "State Fair Fireworks, Labor Day" by Maryann Corbett, courtesy of the Poetry Foundation site.

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

To continue Pride Month, here's Walt Whitman's "I Sing the Body Electric" at the Poetry Foundation website. Here's hoping Trump quotes him during the 250 festival or whatever is going on next month.

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

 

 

People in their outrage forget that Allen Ginsberg belongs to the poets who are celebrated during Pride Month. Read "Footnote to Howl" on the Poetry Foundation website. 

 

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

It keeps me honest to keeping posting this feature during National Poetry Month. In honor of yesterday's Trans Day of Visibility, here is poet torrin a. greathouse's Haunting "On Confinement," published on the Poetry Foundation website. 

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

Thanks to the Poetry Foundation site for Evie Shockley's poem, "Sex Trafficking Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in the USA (or, The Nation’s Plague in Plain Sight)."

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

For no particular reason, Here's "Over Greenland" by Peter Campion courtesy of the Poetry Foundation site. 

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

I've been working on a poem with inspiration from a poem I haven't read in years. Hopefully, you'll see my poem. For now, read "To An Athlete Dying Young" by A. E. Housman courtesy of the Poetry Foundation website. 

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

In honor of yesterday's made up holiday from the alt-right, here's "Daddy" from Sylvia Plath courtesy of the Poetry Foundation. Thanks to Noah Berlatsky for his recent writing on the poet.

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

Just felt like posting a poem about a dead president that people liked. Here's "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman, courtesy of the Poetry Foundation website. 

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

During a time when we're dying of heat and waiting for news on the next immigration raid, what better poem to start to the day than Robert Frost's "Fire and Ice." Thanks, Poetry Foundation.

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

Still using this feature poets I haven't read before. Check out Lucille Clifton's poem "if mama / could see" on the Poetry Foundation site. 

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It's a graduation week for many. Here's a graduation poem courtesy of A. F. Moritz and the Poetry Foundation. They had a list of of poems under the theme of graduation, but this one resonated the most with me thirty years after my college graduation. Read "On Distinction."

 

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

Etheridge Knight is a poet I've been meaning to know better. His history even crosses with Stone Soup Poetry. Let's close out National Poetry Month by reading some of his work. Let's start with his "Haiku" over at Poetry Foundation.

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

What you write in less-than-perfect times matters. That's because, ultimately, there is no perfect time. Never has been. In light of recent electoral "wins," here's "To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth" by Phillis Wheatley Peters. Thanks again, Poetry Foundation.

 

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

Not the timeliest selection today, but Thomas Hardy's "The Ruined Maid" suits my mood as of late. Yours too maybe, regardless of how many bullet points about your week you have to send out. At any rate, one more from the Poetry Foundation.

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

America is now one big abused household. Read "This Be The Verse," courtesy of the Poetry Foundation one more time.

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

How else to end my Black History Month selection with the first Gwendolyn Brooks poem many of us ever read. Here's "We Real Cool," courtesy once again of the Poetry Foundation.

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

Wanted to learn more about Danez Smith since reading a review of their book by Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey. Today, let's read "alternate names for black boys" over at the Poetry Foundation web site.

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RIP Nikki Giovanni. An inspiration to young poets who were lucky to discover your work.  Thanks for writing the poem "The Great Pax Whitie" and to Poetry Foundation for hosting it. 

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

"A Dream Within a Dream" closes out our month of Edgar Allan Poe. Thanks to Poetry Foundation for having such a good Poe archive. One more moment of Poe in comics coming later today.