April 17, 2008
This week we follow on the heels of two new poetry book reviews with one more, a chapbook by the name of Driving With Dante. You don't want to miss it!
I hope you are enjoying the new features on the World Class Poetry Toolbar. If you missed the announcement last week, you can refresh your toolbar and listen to Sierra Club Radio. Look for more updates soon!
And now, without further ado, here's Hyperbole.
Table of Contents
- New World Class Poetry Pages
- World Class Poetry Updates
- American Life in Poetry
- Poetry Book Of The Week
- New World Class Poetry Blog Posts
- Are You Subscribed?
- World Class Poetry Networking
- Call For Submissions!
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American Life in Poetry: Column 159
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006
Bad news all too often arrives with a ringing telephone, all too early in the morning. But sometimes it comes with less emphasis, by regular mail. Here Allan Peterson of Florida gets at the feelings of receiving bad news by letter, not by directly stating how he feels but by suddenly noticing the world that surrounds the moment when that news arrives.
The Inevitable
To have that letter arrive was like the mist that took a meadow and revealed hundreds of small webs once invisible The inevitable often stands by plainly but unnoticed till it hands you a letter that says death and you notice the weed field had been readying its many damp handkerchiefs all alongAmerican Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright (c) 2007 by Allan Peterson, whose most recent book of poetry is "All the Lavish in Common," U. of Mass. Pr., 2005, winner of the Juniper Prize. Reprinted from "The Chattahoochee Review," Winter 2007, V. 27, no. 2, by permission of the author. Introduction copyright (c) 2008 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.
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Poetry Book Of The Week
This week's featured poetry book is Driving With Dante by Brian Michael Tracy.
Read the review..
Get more poetry books at the World Class Poetry Bookstore.
New World Class Poetry Blog Posts
Are you keeping up with the latest blog posts? This month we're posting a new religious poem every day - except today. The latest blog post is a contest!
- The INSPIRIT Christian Poem Contest
- Religious Poem Of The Day: "Because We Are Water" (from Driving With Dante)
- Curtal Poem: Unique Among Sonnets - Here's Why
- A Sufi Mystic Poet From The 12th and 13th Centuries
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Call For Submissions!
Submit your poetry articles to World Class Poetry. Use the WCP article submission form.
Toodles
Allen Taylor
the poet
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