Category: Poetry Talks
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Going Beyond Inscape
As Kingfishers Catch FireBy Gerard Manley Hopkins As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;As tumbled over rim in roundy wellsStones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’sBow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;Selves — goes…
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As Freedom Is A Breakfast Food: Love According to E.E. Cummings
“but love is the sky and I am for you/ just so long and long enough“- E.E. Cummings E.E.Cummings’s poem, “as freedom is a breakfast food” is a poem full of nonsense lines and witty turns of phrase. It’s my favorite poem, and has been since I first read it about two years ago. I…
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American Son: A Poetry Book Review
“We cry for grief/ a long cry for grief/ America cries for we/ daughters and sons/ growing like grains of wheat in a dry and weary land/ put the tears to use/ redeem these wicked years” (Dante Alexander Wilcox, American Son) When I saw a couple weeks ago that a fellow NGU alum, Dante Wilcox,…