Woldman, Scott 2007
Monday, February 12, 2007
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Wednesday October 22, 2003
with Mary Kinzie
with Mary Kinzie
Rain to which I wake
Cold into which I go
Little song, little song…
– Christian Wiman, “Outer Banks”
Broadside of Christian Wiman’s poem, “Outer Banks.”
Read this interview with Christian Wiman from Christianity Today:
Breaking News: Christian Wiman Discusses Faith as He Leaves World’s Top Poetry Magazine
Wiman’s Baptist faith lay dormant until love and cancer unearthed it.
Do you remember the rude nudists?
Lazing easy in girth and tongue,
wet slops and smacks of flesh as they buttered every crevice.
– Christian Wiman, “Do You Remember the Rude Nudists”
Watch Christian Wiman read some of his poetry:
Wilson, Leila 2013
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Water meanders
to prairie potholes,
throws cordgrass
into switchbacks
as we push past
bramble and scare
a whistling wheel
of geese into air.
– Leila Wilson, “What Is the Field?”
Read this interview with Leila Wilson from The Knox Writers’ House:
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Some land lives
so water can comb
it into grids. This
is why lowlands
tilt still toward
the sea. This so
– Leila Wilson, “Nether”
Williams, Miller & Lucinda 2014
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Go find a jukebox
And see what a quarter will do
I don’t wanna talk
I just wanna go back to the blue
– Lucinda Williams, “Blue”
Broadside of Miller Williams’ poem, “A Poem for Emily,” and Lucinda William’s piece, “Blue.”
Some of what we do, we do
to make things happen,
the alarm to wake us up, the coffee to perc,
the car to start.
– Miller Williams, “Love Poem with Toast”
Read this interview with Lucinda Williams from The Believer:
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When I was a boy and a man would die
we’d say a verse when the hearse went by
one car two car three car four
someone knocking on the devil’s door.
– Miller Williams, “June Twenty, Three Days After”
Watch Lucinda Williams perform some of her work:
Watch Miller Williams read some of his poetry:
Wertheim, Christine 2012
Friday, November 10, 2012
Watch Christine Wertheim read some of her poetry:
Read about Christine Wertheim’s project, Crochet Coral Reef:
http://crochetcoralreef.org/contributors/christine_wertheim.php
Weigl, Bruce 2007
Wednesday, November 11, 2007
with Brian Turner
with Brian Turner
The robin is so quarrelsome. He barks to no one in the trees;
he fluffs his body twice its size and rattles in the leaves.
He doesn’t know or won’t accept the nest is empty now,
the eggs a tatter on the ground.
– Bruce Weigl, “Pastoral as Complaint”
Read this interview with Bruce Weigl from Memorious Journal:
http://memorious.org/?id=58
Because this evening Miss Hoang Yen
sat down with me in the small
tiled room of her family house
I am unable to sleep.
– Bruce Weigl, “Her Life Runs Like a Red Silk Flag”
Watch Bruce Weigl read some of his poetry:
Weaver, Deke 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
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Wallace, Valerie 2015
The naked sound of the body sounds
Like a trumpet. I announce a new world
In which your madness and my madness
At the point of a needle, is my love, spinning.
– Valerie Wallace, “Silhouette for the 21st Century”
Read this interview with Valerie Wallace from the Chicago Review of Books:
Valerie Wallace Explores the Life and Work of Alexander McQueen – Chicago Review of Books
A conversation with the debut poet behind ‘House of McQueen.’
Beauty is an accusation. Nature
Herself has turned metaphysical.
Skull bears witness, proper
& perfect. Viper to socket, startles
me into alertness.
– Valerie Wallace, “Small Seams”
Watch Valerie Wallace read her poetry:
Waldman, Anne 2002
Wednesday, December 4, 2002
Sweet tones conjure
no song but
this
old vintaged
one –
– Anne Waldman, “She–Who–Must–Explicate”
Broadside of Anne Waldman’s poem, “She—Who—Must—Explicate.”
Listen to Anne Waldman’s 2002 reading for the Poetry Center of Chicago:
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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Spooky summer on the horizon I’m gazing at
from my window into the streets
That’s where it’s going to be where everyone is
walking around, looking around out in the open
suspecting each other’s heart to open fire
all over the streets
– Anne Waldman, “Revolution”
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