#americanpoetry

[leeboylethepoet]

DRIVING COUNTRY

America is a driving country.

Roads jockey until every

bite is taken out of a

mountain. California lanes

shoulder roadkill graveyards

into the Pacific Ocean. Merge

points slice together at

crazy angles in Washington,

D.C. Farms race by your

window in the Midwest.

Florida's blocks get

over-cruised while New York

is at a crawl. Arizona's sky

will vacuum you up,

into it's blue. Barrel to the

edge of Maine; get out of

the car; take in the view;

jump back on the highway.

You get in line at the

toll booth; the person

in front of you has the

same radio station on;

you both notice it and,

for one moment, no one

is thinking. For a few

instances, America may

make sense, feel practical,

possibly gleeful, but

it's always then time

to go back to driving.

#AmericanPoetry

[drjohnworldpeacejd]

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[its-suanneschafer-author]

Book mail today! Poet Luanne Castle’s newest collection of poems. Can’t wait to delve into her lovely works.

#ContemporaryPoetry #AmericanPoetry #LuanneCastle #CaliforniaPoets

[princetonuniversitypress]

How Black poets inspired the direction that American poetics has taken for the past two centuries.

Before Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, produced the conditions for the invention of modern American poetry. Through inspired readings of the poetry of Phillis Wheatley Peters, George Moses Horton, Ann Plato, James Monroe Whitfield, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper—as well as the poetry of neglected but once popular White poets William Cullen Bryant and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—Virginia Jackson demonstrates how Black poets inspired the direction that American poetics has taken for the past two centuries.

#poetry #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLiterature #BlackPoetry #literature #AmericanPoetry

[kathryninthelibrary]

(Book 22) 101 Great American Poems ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A nice sampling from American poets, both familiar and unfamiliar. While I don't always get poetry, I usually enjoy it. One of favorites from this collection was "Dream Deferred (Harlem)" by Langston Hughes: What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. <i>Or does it explode?</i> #read #read2023 #readersofinstagram #poetry #springreading #americanpoetry https://www.instagram.com/p/CpWDL_8vePl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[skatepunkanthi]

Έντνα Βίνσετ ΜιλέΪ

Η Έντνα Βίνσετ ΜιλέΪ γεννήθηκε στο Μέιν των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών Αμερικής στις 22 Φεβρουαρίου 1892. Η Έντνα ήταν λυρική ποιήτρια, θεατρική συγγραφέας, ακτιβίστρια και η πρώτη γυναίκα που κέρδισε το Βραβείο Πούλιτζερ για την ποίηση. Απασχόλησε τον κόσμο εκτός από το ποιητικό της έργο, με τον μποέμικο τρόπο ζωής αλλά και με τους έρωτές της. Το 1923 κέρδισε το Βραβείο Πούλιτζερ για την ποίηση για το…

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[edwardastormwrites]

Audio of an amazing Weldon Kees poem

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[iamclbpoetry]

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[withoutafilter]

For it is the fate of a woman. Longing to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless. Until some questioning voice dissolve the spell of its silence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#inspiration #powerfulwomen #keepingitreal #americanpoetry

[ginzyblog]

Peter Orlovsky was born this day in 1933. He would have been 88 years old.  Happy Birthday in Heaven Peter!  

To P.O.

The whitewashed room, roof

of a third-rate Mohammedan hotel,

two beds, blurred fan

whirling over yr brown guitar,

knapsack open on floor, towel

hanging from chair, Orange Crush,

brown paper manuscript packages,

Tibetan tankas, Gandhi pajamas,

Ramakrishna Gospel, bright umbrella

a mess on a rickety wooden stand,

the yellow wall-bulb lights up

this scene Calcutta for the thirtieth night—

Come in the green door, long Western gold

hair plastered down your shoulders

from shower: “Did we take our pills

this week for malaria?” Happy birthday

dear Peter, your 29th year.

Calcutta, July 8, 1962

[poem & Peter Orlovsky photo: Allen Ginsberg, Varanassi, 1963] #peterorlovsky #allenginsberg #queer #gay #writers #poetry #poets #beatgeneration #india #kolkata #americanwriters #americanpoetry (at Kolkata India)

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[sircharlesthepoet]

Midnight Library

Boo meOr boo to you.A scare-tastic fanatic,Sometimes fantasticOthers, terror-ific. Results of a drain in my headMy brain eaten by confusion zombiesInstead.Due dates chasing me—I’m due for a date with the dead if I get out of line. Horrors I have brought upon myselfAre now awakened—all through this night.So I’ll remain. Focused as could beAs this night prolongs. Like the sea Until forever—until…

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[backpacksnstuff]

It’s freaking cold and everything I’m reading at the moment (“Infinite Jest” by DFW and some poetry by Richard Brautigan) is sad 😢 Beautiful but infinitely sad... Have you read “Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt” or any other collections of poetry by Richard Brautigan? Which poem(s) did you like? I have never been able to discuss poetry properly or explain why I like one poem or another...So, no explanation, just some haunting lines: Three sheep in a field grazing beside a FOR SALE sign are like pennies in the hand of a child who will buy what he wants to. #bookstagram #booklover #instabook #bookstagrammer #whatimreading #whattoread #whattoreadnext #poetry #americanpoetry #americanliterature #americanauthors #richardbrautigan #rommeldrivesondeepintoegypt #poems #collectionofpoetry (at Tallinn, Estonia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKESO2mgDWp/?igshid=1bdcrhg2yhatv

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[librarycompany]

“The house in which a great poet has lived always interests us, but it can not hold so much of his life as the trees through which his thoughts have made Æolian melodies, or the roadsides along which his imaginations have blossomed into song.” --Lucy Larcom.

We’re celebrating #PublishersBindingThursday and #NationalPoetryMonth with our copy of Lucy Larcom’s Landscape in American Poetry (New York, circa 1879), which features overlapping landscape designs printed in black and gold, as well as bevelled edge boards.

Larcom, Lucy. Landscape in american poetry. New York : D. Appleton and Company. [c1879]

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[edwardastormwrites]

 Dear Friend,

I am first and foremost an avid reader of poetry.  I host a podcast about poetry's history.  My first book is a small collection of poems about rising up during hard times. I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to impress you with my writing.  Through Darkness Together is my first book and I have  a much longer book that I'd like to release before Christmas.  I've been a self starter and entrepreneur my whole career which spanned more than twenty years on Wall Street.  So, what else could I do but go forward with confidence and self publish my book?  I have some very important things to say and publishing was urgent. Please check out my book for free on Kindle unlimited or to own for $3.  

Link to the book:

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[mj1982mjha]

"Night is breathing close to us, dark, soft." #DeniseLevertov. #Poetry. #AmericanPoet. #AmericanPoetry. #otd. #happybirthdayDeniseLevertov! (at Samastipur) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3-JfiHhRKc/?igshid=1k2x18gkg9jsx

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[laurrrrrrrra]

kari edwards, in Bharat jiva, 2009.

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