#POEM

joy

ErnestOgunyemi

I've heard people say that it was the Soyinka, Clark - and later, the Funso Aiyejina and Odia Ofeimun - generation that wrote very political poetry. Naija poets today are

Angela Browne

Angela__Browne

Chatting to my sister about the Golden Globes snub of I May Destroy You. We conclude that resonating with black women leading ‘normal’ lives is the problem - Fleabag we

John McCullough

JohnMcCullough_

Phonetic map of the mouth that shows where most of the sounds in English come from. I think it’s handy to be aware of the sonic weight & texture of

bongwater, PhD

twinkdyke

ghosts of tsushimas haiku mechanic has me thinking again about how fraught the notion of a haiku in english is, just like inherently most common definition (i think) we come

Matthew Haigh 💀💄💪🏻

MattHaighPoetry

I’ve seen people express the belief that you need an MA to “make it” in poetry. I appreciate everyone has different goals, but speaking personally I can say that this

Erica Wright

eawright

Trying to revise a poem this morning, and the ending is a mess. When this happens, I sometimes try out the four different endings types offered by Stanley Kunitz (as

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rebeca6169

Gustave Doré, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (1855) Jacob wrestling with the angel, Rembrandt (1659) Jacob wrestling with the angel, Eugène Delacroix (1861) Paul Gauguin (1888), Vision after the Sermon

Andy

__codexterous

I spent this yesterday leafing through Don Paterson’s excellent anthology of 101 Sonnets. Paterson writes wonderfully about poetry and his introduction was superb. It really got me thinking. So, here

Jericho Brown

jerichobrown

Let’s see if I can teach this in a thread before my 5:30 appointment. Every metaphor is made up of two parts: the tenor & the vehicle, as in “the

Abdulla

KarakMufti

THREAD.An analysis of Drake's Arabic lyrics in his Only You Freestyle from the perspective of Palestinian national liberation. Drake calls upon poetic traditions to speak about the beauty of freedom

J. David

LookingAtLilacs

Denise Levertov uses “joy” 47 times in this collection. I decided to spend time with a couple incidences and learn a little about their textures—how they differ in presentation, other

Stephen Langtry

StephenLangtry

Krotoa married Pieter van Meerhof on 26 April 1664. Their marriage was the first recorded union between an indigenous person and a European settler. She was also the first Khoe

XIRAN, Chinese History Memer

XiranJayZhao

decided to do a separate thread for this so here we go: how Song dynasty poet Lu You poem-liveblogged his descent from cat owner to cat slave 800 years agoThe

Becky Prestwich

beckyph7

THEATRE (a thread)I find it so hard to articulate why I think theatre matters. Things that feel magical in a theatre can seem wanky or ridiculous or small written down.

Mangy Jay

magi_jay

This piece is hilarious. As the white author contorts herself to discredit a young Black poet's style, she also repeatedly reveals she has no knowledge of poetry, basic grammatical rules,

Yasmin Nair

NairYasmin

Just a few words about the Amanda Gorman poem and why it irks me so:I taught, for many, many years at Purdue University. It's not Ivy League, but it's a

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