LAURELS: Summer reading clubs
Check out the summer reading clubs at Kanawha Public Library. It’s still not too late to sign up. Click here.
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“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”
— Robert Frost
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A good book on writing poetry:
“In the Palm of Your Hand” by Steve Kowit tops the list. Thirty chapters include “How to Begin” and “The Secret of Writing” — guaranteed to inspire.
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A poem about how a poem begins:
Here’s an excerpt from “Before I begin this poem” by Emmanuel Ortiz, Catholic New Times, May 4, 2003:
Before I start this poem,
I’d like to ask you to join me
in a moment of silence
in honour of those who died
in the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon
on 9/11 2001
I would also like to ask you
a moment of silence
for all of those who have been
harassed, imprisoned, disappeared,
tortured, raped, or killed
in retaliation for those strikes,
for the victims in both
Afghanistan and the US.
And if I could just add one more thing …
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Allen Ginsberg class on vividness and close observation in writing - Part 1 (June 1, 1982), recorded by: Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics…. click here.
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At the Knopf Poetry Podcast, John Updike reads “The Day Lady Died” by Frank Ohara. Click here.
