[stylist] FW: Poets.org: Ghost Poems, New Pinsky Video, Muldoon & Komunyakaa in Conversation, Rukeyser's Life of Poetry & More

Mon Oct 24 17:55:16 UTC 2011

Fellow writers,

I said I would try to send an issure of “Poets and Writers on the web. I do
not know what will happen. Let me know if it gets through.

jackie

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Subject: Poets.org: Ghost Poems, New Pinsky Video, Muldoon & Komunyakaa in
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Haunted Verse: Poems About Ghosts
A Fundamental Art: New Pinsky Video
A Life of Poetry: Rukeyser on Audience
Poetic Encouragement: Muldoon & Komunyakaa in Conversation
"What was said to the rose": Jalal al-Din Rumi

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Verse: Poems About Ghosts

The ghosts swarm. / They speak as one / person. Each / loves you. Each / has
left something / undone..."—writes Rae Armantrout. In honor of the spooky
season, browse this compilation of haunted poetry—including work by Lucie
Brock-Broido, Carolyn Forché, Garrett Hongo, Edgar Allan Poe, Dylan Thomas,
and more.

On the web at: www.poets.org/ghosts
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Fundamental Art: New Pinsky Video

"This is a fundamental, central human art. The kids may not do it the way we
do it. But if you take a two-year-old or three-year-old on your lap and you
read Walter de la Mare, or Dr. Seuss, or Robert Louis Stevenson, or Edward
Lear...the child doesn't have to study something. The child loves hearing
the language with the rhythm in it. It's in us."

Watch Pinsky discuss poetic inspiration at the 2010 Poets Forum and read the
full transcript.

On the web at: www.poets.org/rpins
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11&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=content&utm_content=howe_interview> 

See the Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets in discussion at the
fifth annual Poets Forum
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edium=newsletter&utm_campaign=content&utm_content=poetsforum>  in New York
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try> A Life of Poetry: Rukeyser on Audience

"A poem does invite, it does require. What does it invite? A poem invites
you to feel. More than that: it invites you to respond. And better than
that: a poem invites a total response." Read what Muriel Rukeyeser
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medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=content&utm_content=rukeyser_bio>  has to say
about the possibility of a personal engagement with modern poetry—excerpted
from the first chapter of her seminal work: The Life of Poetry. 

On the web at: www.poets.org/mruke
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> Poetic Encouragement: Muldoon & Komunyakaa in Conversation

Muldoon: When you were a child, did your 
   father encourage you?
Komunyakaa: My mother encouraged me, my 
   father wanted me to work right beside him.
Muldoon: Encouragement is extremely 
   important. My daughter and I were in a restaurant
   the other night and in the middle of the dinner
   my daughter says, 'Okay, I have a poem. Have
   you got a piece of paper?'

Explore the relationship of these two poets as they discuss the difficulty
of writing and the support systems necessary to make great literature.

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medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=content&utm_content=rumi_bio> "What was said
to the rose": Jalal al-Din Rumi

"Love will find its way through all languages on its own." As well as being
the author of the Masnavi-ye Ma'navi (Spiritual Verses), a sixty-four
thousand line epic, and one of his most personal works, Rumi has gained
popularity for his innovative lyrics. Browse his poems and find out more
about this iconic Iranian poet.

On the web at: www.poets.org/rumi
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