Four adaptations of poems set to music: some tender, some bizarre, all personal homages to poems and their masters. Enjoy! "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?" by Emily Dickinson Composed by Israeli singer-songwriter Efrat Ben Zur.
Last week I caught a live show called "The Moth." Perhaps you've heard of it? It's a little like a live version of This American Life--ordinary people (some aspiring writers and performers, many not) headline a show in which they each have five minutes to tell a true story on a theme. On the night I was…
How to turn your next Google search into poetry. The Dadaists of the 1920s developed an interesting poetic technique you may have tried yourself, that of cutting up a text and rearranging its words to create a whole new work. Yes, before you crafted dirty limericks on your fridge with a packet of word magnets,…
It's voting time! In the spirit of the culmination of the presidential election tomorrow, below is a list that highlights historic presidents' more poetic attributes. Ever wondered whose poetry Thomas Jefferson cozied up with? Or which past president favored the eccentric Welsh poet Dylan Thomas? Read on to find out... George Washington and Phillis Wheatley…
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Portrait of the poet Emily Dickinson at the age of sixteen. Property of Amherst College. For years, scholars have had only one image of the enigmatic Emily Dickinson to go by--that of the poet as a sixteen year-old, taken in 1847 (above). In that time, observers have been unable to help themselves…
Natasha Trethewey, the United States' 19th Poet Laureate, will give her first reading at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. this Thursday. Trethewey became the national Poet Laureate in June of this year. The reading later this week will kickstart her duties in the role. The "poet-historian," as the Library of Congress describes her, was…
There are so many quotes I could draw from that would be emblematic of the character of Charles Bukowski, the larger-than-life poet, novelist, alcoholic, and "grim prophet of love." But today, on the day he would have turned 92, I choose "two nights before my 72nd birthday." Written exactly two decades ago, shortly before his…
