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| Poetry: American Life in Poetry: Column 100 |
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by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006
Here the Maine poet, Wesley McNair, offers us a vivid description of a man who has lived beyond himself. I'd guess you won't easily forget this sad old man in his apron with his tray of cheese.
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Posted by Rose on Thursday, February 22 @ 13:59:59 EST (466 reads)
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| Poetry: American Life in Poetry: Column 099 |
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by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006
My maternal grandparents got their drinking water from a well in the yard, and my disabled uncle carried it sloshing to the house, one bucket of hard red water early every morning. I couldn't resist sharing this lovely little poem by Minnesota poet, Sharon Chmielarz.
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Posted by Rose on Thursday, February 22 @ 13:58:28 EST (380 reads)
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| Poetry: American Life in Poetry: Column 098 |
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Ted Kooser, US Poet Laureate, 2004-2006
A horse's head is big, and the closer you get to it, the bigger it gets. Here is the Idaho poet, Robert Wrigley, offering us a horse's head, up close, and covering a horse's character, too.
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Posted by Rose on Thursday, February 22 @ 13:55:58 EST (373 reads)
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| Poetry: American Life in Poetry: Column 096 |
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Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004 - 2006
Grief can endure a long, long time. A deep loss is very reluctant to let us set it aside, to push it into a corner of memory. Here the Arkansas poet, Andrea Hollander Budy, gives us a look at one family's adjustment to a death.
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Posted by Rose on Saturday, February 10 @ 15:11:57 EST (418 reads)
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| Poetry: American Life in Poetry: Column 095 |
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Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004 - 2006
Literature, and in this instance, poetry, holds a mirror to life; thus the great themes of life become the great themes of poems. Here the distinguished American poet, John Haines, addresses--and celebrates through the affirmation of poetry--our preoccupation with aging and mortality.
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Posted by Rose on Thursday, January 18 @ 13:25:36 EST (405 reads)
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| Poetry: American Life in Poetry: Column 094 |
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Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004 - 2006
While many of the poems we feature in this column are written in open forms, that's not to say I don't respect good writing done in traditional meter and rhyme. But a number of contemporary poets, knowing how a rigid attachment to form can take charge of the writing and drag the poet along behind, will choose, say, the traditional villanelle form, then relax its restraints through the use of broken rhythm and inexact rhymes. I'd guess that if I weren't talking about it, you might not notice, reading this poem by Floyd Skloot, that you were reading a sonnet.
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Posted by Rose on Thursday, January 11 @ 22:58:27 EST (361 reads)
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| Poetry: American Life in Poetry: Column 092 |
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Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004 - 2006
Home is where the heart. . . Well, surely we all know that old saying. But it's the particulars of a home that make it ours. Here the poet Linda Parsons Marion, who lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, celebrates familiarity, in its detail and its richness.
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Posted by Rose on Monday, January 01 @ 20:15:12 EST (465 reads)
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| Poetry: American Life in Poetry: Column 091 |
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Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004 - 2006
How many of us, when passing through some small town, have felt that it seemed familiar though we've never been there before. And of course it seems familiar because much of the course of life is pretty much the same wherever we go, right down to the up-and-down fortunes of the football team and the unanswered love letters. Here's a poem by Mark Vinz.
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Posted by Rose on Tuesday, December 26 @ 11:47:41 EST (526 reads)
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| Poetry: American Life in Poetry: Column 090 |
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Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004 - 2006
Anyone can write a poem that nobody can understand, but poetry is a means of communication, and this column specializes in poems that communicate. What comes more naturally to us than to instruct someone in how to do something? Here the Minnesota poet and essayist Bill Holm, who is of Icelandic parentage, shows us how to make something delicious to eat.
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Posted by Rose on Saturday, December 16 @ 16:36:43 EST (456 reads)
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| Poetry: American Life in Poetry: Column 089 |
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Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004 - 2006
Loss can defeat us or serve as the impetus for positive change. Here, Sue Ellen Thompson of Connecticut shows us how to mourn inevitable changes, tuck the memories away, then go on to see the possibility of a new and promising chapter in one's life.
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Posted by Rose on Saturday, December 09 @ 21:42:40 EST (458 reads)
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