Tag: Art
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“Overvision” at Poetry Under the Paintings
This last Thursday we enjoyed Poetry Under the Paintings 2 at Faustina’s Gallery in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. We will continue this at least through the summer, so if you are in Central PA with time to spare and a poem in your hand (yours or a favorite), bring a chair and a taste for Ann’s mint…
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Poetry Innovations, from Sculpture to Animation
We’ve been looking at some innovative ways to present poetry to a modern reader, or listener. Here are a few things I found this evening that I thought you’d enjoy. There is a library in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a few hours from my home that is combining poetry with sculpture. Take a look at this article…
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Poetry Out Loud: Something to Shout About
Are you familiar with the Poetry Out Loud program going on in US schools? Yesterday I said that decline for national interest in poetry started its turn around somewhere in the mid 2000’s. I have no statistics or proof other than my own observations, and what has been written and talked about by others in various…
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Even Marianne Moore disliked it.
First of all, thank you for this great discussion on value and viability of poetry that has been going on among us. I hope it continues. I thought today we’d put the discussion into, well a poem. And since I have not yet, and might never write one on this particular topic, and Marianne Moore has already…
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Why (Even We) Hate Poetry
Somewhere in April I know, and maybe more than once, the question of what makes something poetry, came up. Or maybe it was what makes a poem a good poem. In any case I had vowed to come back to this topic, as it is an important one for me. But before we delve into…
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Day 29 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: From Wallace Stevens’ “Man with the Blue Guitar”
I have thought of my son Jonathan in relation to this poem, ever since he picked out this blue Dean guitar at my brother-in-law’s music shop. We were looking for laptops at the time, for a birthday present, but he said he would be happier to upgrade to a better guitar instead. How could…
