Read Olivia Maciel’s article entitled “A Brief Homage to Octavio Paz” from the Chicago Tribune:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-04-26/news/9804260203_1_octavio-paz-li-young-lee-poetry
Watch Olivia Maciel read and translate some of her poetry from The Guild Lit Channel:
Palabra Pura, Olivia Maciel, January 15, 2014
One Poet, One Poem ! This annual event celebrates the past and future curators of Palabra Pura. What a talented line up!
Listen to Patricia McMillen read her poem, “Fill ‘Er Up” on GLT’s Poetry Radio:
Watch 80 Foots per Minute perform their song, “My Stars:”
Billie sang! the truth of blooming blood blossoms
the bottomless search-seek for love,
the pitless people, pillaging, plagiarizing,
picking apart
– Maria McCray, “Holliday & Well Worth a Celebration”
Broadside of “Holliday & Well Worth a Celebration” by Maria McCray
I’ve done some heavy lifting
And flexed my abs against the absolute
On the monastery farm
I’ve tried and tried the treadmill of the true
But it’s as nothing, schoolmarm,
To what I’ve tried with you
– Paul Muldoon, “Schoolmarm”
Listen to Paul Muldoon read and discuss his work for the Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Lectures:
I ran into Miss Adventure
At the Bluebird Cafe
I pressed myself upon her
She kinda gave way
I said I’m racked with guilt
For having made so free
She gave her head a tilt
She said don’t you see
– Paul Muldoon, “You Gotta Take Out Milt”
Read an interview with Paul Muldoon from the Paris Review:
The Art of Poetry No. 87
Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh, in Northern Ireland, in 1951. He is the eldest of three children. His mother was a primary schoolteacher and his father held many jobs, including mushroom cultivator. Muldoon attended Queen’s University from 1969 to 1973, and remained in Belfas…
In this mouth I gather darkness, an aria,
rosewater tongue, tympanic bone,
a poem more quiet than quietness,
a bronze song, something undone, salvia,
a crushed butterfly.
– Simone Muench, “Elegy for the Unsaid”
Broadside of “Elegy for the Unsaid” by Simone Muench, “Try” by Jennifer Grotz, and “burdens” by Quraysh Ali Lansana
Listen to Simone Muench’s 2014 reading for the Poetry Center of Chicago’s Six Points Reading Series:
we were movie stars
who never entered the frame.
we were green and gone
lisping “o” words in the air:
ode, odalisque, obituary.
– Simone Muench, “Orange Girl Suite [excerpt]”
Roger Reeves, Simone Muench, and Jason Koo at the Poetry Center of Chicago’s Six Points Reading Series, August 29, 2014.
More & more I see the human form,
a nothingness which longs to be the sea.
Lives infinitely repeated down to atomic thinness
like footfalls in a strange house.
– Simone Muench, “Wolf Cento”
Listen to Simone Muench’s 2010 reading with Jenny Boully at the Chicago Poetry Center:
Muench begins at 28:25 minutes.
Read an interview with Simone Muench from Newcity Lit:
The Great and Royal Animal Within: An Interview with Simone Muench
Interview with Simone Muench about her new collection of poems, “Wolf Centos”.
From the province of spring everlasting
bring back a rose that remains half-open,
from the drydock of mute old men
bring back the miracle of a tear,
from the delta of good intentions
bring back the seed that will change a life.
– Lisel Mueller, “Spell For A Traveler”
Broadside of “Spell For A Traveler” by Lisel Mueller
Listen to Lisel Mueller’s 1995 Poetry Center of Chicago reading:
Audio recording of the Poetry Center Reading Series featuring Billy Collins, Andrei Codrescu, Ron Padgett, Lucille Clifton, Mark Perlberg, Li-Young Lee, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Anne Waldman, Yusuf Komunyakaa, Lisel Mueller, Ted Kooser, Paul Carroll, Jorie Graham, and Paul Hoover.
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We fitted our shoes with tongues
as smooth as our own
and hung tongues inside bells
so we could listen
to their emotional language,
– Lisel Mueller, “Things”
Read an interview with Lisel Mueller from Pirene’s Fountain:
http://www.pirenesfountain.com/archives/issue_04/showcase-interview.html
When you said that you wanted to be useful
as the days of the week, I said, “God bless you.”
Then you said you would not trade our Mondays,
useful for two thousand years,
for the Seven Wonders of the ancient world.
– Stanley Moss, “An Argument”
Watch Stanley Moss read some of his poetry:
Stanley Moss reads ‘Song of Alphabets’, ‘Paper Swallow’, and ‘Pslam’
American poet Stanley Moss reads three of his poems from his collection No Tear is Commonplace, published by Carcanet Press (2013). Available here http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781847772503 The poems collected in No Tear is Commonplace stage a passionate, curious, and often combative relationship with the world and the forces that shape human life and death.
Some of the self-containment of my old face
has been sandblasted away. The “yellow wind”
is blowing and my mouth and face burn
from the Gobi dust that scorches the city
after its historic passage over the Great Wall.
When I was young, I hosed the Atlantic salt
off my body, the salt was young too.
– Stanley Moss, “April, Beijing”
Read an article on Stanley Moss:
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/22761/the-joke%E2%80%99s-on-god
Watch Judd Morrissey’s performance poem, “The Operature:”
THE OPERATURE by ATOM-r @PERFORMING HOUSE, YORK, UK OCT 2013
The Operature is a durational live performance, installation and augmented reality poem that engages histories of forensics and anatomical science and spectacle.
Read an interview with Judd Morrissey and Lori Talley:
http://thestudio.uiowa.edu/tirw/TIRW_Archive/tirweb/feature/morrissey_talley/interview.html
I am a feather on the bright sky
I am the blue horse that runs in the plain
I am the fish that rolls, shining, in the water
I am the shadow that follows a child
I am the evening light, the lustre of meadows
– N. Scott Momaday, “The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee”
Read this interview with N. Scott Momaday from History Net:
Interview: Author N. Scott Momaday
Kiowa Writer N. Scott Momaday won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969 and now claims WWA’s Owen Wister Award.
Watch N. Scott Momaday read some of his work and discuss his life:
A Man Made of Words: N. Scott Momaday
N. Scott Momaday, a noted Native American author, reads his works and tells anecdotes about his life. [1/1997] [Show ID: 125] More from: Library Channel (https://www.uctv.tv/library-channel) Explore More Humanities on UCTV (https://www.uctv.tv/humanities) The humanities encourage us to think creatively and explore questions about our world.
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