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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: POETRY READINGS Matches Found: 65 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FORGOTTEN BARD, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a dim nook beneath the street Last Line: Some book of mine be housed and read? Subject(s): Books; New York City; Poetry Readings; Reading; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple A POETICAL VERSION OF A LETTER, FROM THE EARL OF ESSEX TO SOUTHAMPTON, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lord, untaught by nature or by art Last Line: Essex. Subject(s): Letters; Poetry Readings ABOUT', by JACQUES ROUBAUD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It has long been known that poets don't know what they're saying Last Line: Answered miss s....'told you so!' they said Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings; Writing Schools AFTER THE POETRY READING, BLACK, by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His friend, the red hair and tight jeans Last Line: And I knew %what I meant Subject(s): Poetry Readings AFTER THE POETRY READING; FOR MARIE HOWE, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If emily dickinson lived in the 1990's Last Line: Her fly buzzes me all the way home Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Poetry Readings APPLE, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Let's let this run, then Last Line: The only worm in the apple %is that it's only an apple Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings; Rhyme; Sonnet (as Literary Form) AT THE POETRY CONFERENCE: BERKELEY AFTER THE NEW YORK STYLE, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beginning with sonnets for ted berrigan Last Line: To hear what we need and is lovely. Subject(s): Authors - Conferences And Workshops; Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Poetry & Poets; Poetry Readings; Writer's Conferences And Workshops; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph AT THE POETRY READING, by BRUCE ISAACSON Poem Source First Line: Plead your case before the blood-crazed mob Last Line: To an artist with bent teeth at the reading. %you hear metal balls rolling in his laugh Subject(s): Poetry Readings AT THE POETRY READING: 'THIS IS A POEM ABOUT THAT', by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This will be my last poem tonight Subject(s): Poetry Readings BASHO IV, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: The poet is a mill that turns the landscape to words Last Line: I too am tempted by the wind that allows the clouds to drift Subject(s): Art And Artists; Poetry Readings; Sailors And Sailing; Travel BEFORE THE POETRY READING, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the poetry reading Subject(s): Poetry Readings CHATTING WITH GEORGE AMABILE, by RON CHARACH Poem Source First Line: Chatting with george amabile at the annual poets meeting Last Line: As I leave, george calls after me, %be smart ... Subject(s): Amabile, George; Poetry Readings CLICK-ROSE 2: 15, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source First Line: To the poem I read in the making Last Line: Unseasonably hot terrifying which the other as close as they%are have not been through Subject(s): Flowers; Language; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings; Roses DEPARTMENT OF TALMUD, SELS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Your new book of poems just came Last Line: Furrow the nape of your neck' Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings; Religion DO YOU WANT TO BE EXCELLENT AN ACTRESS NO NOT THAT EITHER, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jewels speak, the different-colored Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Poetry Readings; Actresses ENCYCLICAL ON READING ALOUD, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: It is hard to read well, clear as the chime Last Line: Beginning was the rabble rousing word Subject(s): Books; Language; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings ENTERING THE STUDENT'S POEM, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The most beautiful videos / come from reading poetry Last Line: The blood rushing to her forehead. Subject(s): Exchange Students; Language Poetry; Poetry Readings; Foreign Exchange Programs FOR A POETRY READING TO WHICH NO ONE CAME, by LARRY RUBIN Poem Source First Line: It was a falling castle, full of drafts Subject(s): Fantasy; Poetry Readings FOR MY SAKE, by ERIC PAUL SHAFFER Poem Source First Line: There was no line at the bookstore. At noon, I read Last Line: As words for these lines, but for my sake Subject(s): Booksellers; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings FRESH AIR, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the poem society a black-haired man stands up to say Subject(s): Air; Dadaism; Poetry & Poets; Poetry Readings; Poetry Society Of America FRESH AIR, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the poem society a black-haired man stands up to say Last Line: O green, beneath which all of them shall drown! Subject(s): Air; Dadaism; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings; Poetry Society Of America LATE NIGHT CALLS, by MARK VINZ Poem Source First Line: Sometimes when the phone rings late at night I think of my friend jim Last Line: This dying is hard work, isn't it.' Subject(s): Poetry Readings LECTERN, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: When I was flying around on ozark airlines giving poetry readings at Last Line: He is still in. I am still out. He still has my timex Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings; Teaching And Teachers NOISE, by FERREIRA GULLAR Poem Source First Line: Every poem is made of air Last Line: In the breath of reading Subject(s): Poetry Readings OCCASIONS OF GRACE AT A POETRY READING, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The loving-kindness, lord! Who, sin to quell Subject(s): Poetry Readings OH, VEBLEN, THIS IS MUCH BETTER, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Years and modes ago, in the heyday Subject(s): Poetry Readings; Detroit, Mcihigan; Mansions ON THE INDESTRUCTIBILITY OF READING MATTER, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lad whose life is pure and clean Last Line: And love its cardiac motive power. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Books; Poetry Readings; Rhyme; Reading OUR PRESIDENT READS A BOOK -- NOT LOUIS L'AMOUR, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Before all the world Last Line: We have sought his love for a thousand days Subject(s): Books; Poetry Readings; Presidents, United States; Reagan, Ronald Wilson (b. 1911); White House (washington, D.c.) POEM TO READ AND SUNG, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know there is a person Subject(s): Poetry Readings POEM TO READ AND SUNG, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know there is a person Last Line: But she looks and looks for me. What a story! Subject(s): Poetry Readings POEMS OF THE ORIENT', by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We read your little book of orient lays Last Line: And take the sandy solitude alone Subject(s): Books; Poetry Readings POETRY, by O. E. ENFIELD Poem Text First Line: Don't ask me to read a long poem Last Line: At what the critics say. Subject(s): Poetry Readings POETRY READING, by MILTON KAPLAN Poem Source First Line: Outside in the light of the neon sun Last Line: In the quiet room where people listen Subject(s): Poetry Readings POETRY READING, by KENDRA KOPELKE Poem Source First Line: You must be invisible Subject(s): Poetry Readings POETRY READING, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They come to see the %monkey perform, the %men dancing thru Last Line: Will tear them out %of themselves so %they can leave %like someone %who survives Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Poetry Readings POETRY READING, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your words are like the knife Subject(s): Poetry Readings POETRY READING, by VERNON SCANNELL Poem Source First Line: Before the thing begins we have Last Line: The atmosphere grows thrilling prickles, but alas, %there are more women here than men Subject(s): Poetry Readings POETRY READING, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be a boxer, or not to be there Subject(s): Poetry Readings POETRY READING, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be a boxer, or not to be there Last Line: We start to read. O muse Subject(s): Poetry Readings POETRY READING BENEFIT, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are ladies Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Poetry Readings POETRY READING, BREVIG MISSION, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Likely lured by a twenty-dollar cash prize Last Line: Little, adorable, three-month-old girl's %savings for college and career Subject(s): Children; Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Poetry Readings; Schools; Teaching And Teachers POETRY READINGS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry readings have to be some of the saddest Last Line: But / these Subject(s): Poetry Readings POETRY READINGS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry readings have to be some of the saddest Last Line: Anything %anything %but %these Subject(s): Poetry Readings RAW SILK, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open the door or I'll faint hearing amma's voice Last Line: Raw silk turned to smoke in the night's throat Subject(s): Children; Death; Family Life; Memory; Poetry Readings; Childhood; Dead, The; Relatives RAW SILK, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open the door or I'll faint hearing amma's voice Last Line: Raw silk turned to smoke in the night's throat Subject(s): Children; Death; Family Life; Memory; Poetry Readings READING HIGH SCHOOL POEMS IN HINDMAN, KENTUCKY, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: After exhaustion, %after days of talking about poetry Last Line: Then rubbing my shoulders while I ate Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings READING POEMS IN PUBLIC, by MAURICE KENNY Poem Source First Line: I stand on a stage and read poems Last Line: And read poems, and read Subject(s): Poetry Readings READING SIDNEY LANIER IN A STARBUCKS, by WILLIAM WENTHE Poem Source First Line: How is it, compulsive rhymer, that in one poem Last Line: In a new landscapes of language, awakening frontiers Subject(s): Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881); Poetry Readings REREADING FOUR QUARTETS, by MARGARET HOLLEY Poem Source First Line: When the year 1962 was inscribed in this book Last Line: Future, poetry, sunlight, music, mystery Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings SEEDINGS, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the dream Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Poetry Readings; Nightmares SMALL COUNTRY: 1, by OTTO ORBAN Poem Source First Line: I was duped about poetry being omnipotent Last Line: Of the future, a passion for gambling Subject(s): Poetry Readings STREET POET, by JAMES HAZEN Poem Source First Line: When hickford sings, midnight's Last Line: And the editors make their rounds Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings SUMMER NIGHT, RIVERSIDE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the wild soft summer darkness Last Line: With oil of citronella. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Poetry Readings; Romance; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE GIRL FROM SOAP SUDS ROW, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Oh! Mistress margaret esther snow Last Line: Found most of her genius in soap suds row. Subject(s): Classmates; Poetry Readings; Poverty; Schoolmates THE LIBRARIAN, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The landscape (the landscape!) again: gloucester Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Librarians & Libraries; Poetry Readings; Homecoming; Family Life; Library; Librarians; Relatives TIME, by JOAN BROSSA Poem Source First Line: This line is the present Last Line: Can change that Subject(s): Language; Poetry Readings TO THE HON. MRS. COCKAYNE, by JANE WEST Poem Text First Line: C -- e, whom providence hath placed / in the rich realms of polished taste Last Line: I mean the counterparts of you. Alternate Author Name(s): Iliffe, Jane Subject(s): Poetry Readings TO THE READER, by JERRY HARP Poem Source First Line: I would make this poem personal Last Line: These are the traces of its never having been Subject(s): Kabir (1440-1518); Poetry Readings TO THE RETURNED GIRLS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will you read my little pome Last Line: Lots of people do not care. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Vacations; Girls; Photography & Photographers; Poetry Readings TO THE RETURNED GIRLS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will you read my little pome Last Line: Lots of people do not care. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Poetry Readings TOMB OF BAUDELAIRE, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of the bridge is a state of prison. Then Subject(s): Poetry Readings; Poetry & Poets TRAVEL NOTES, by JAY MEEK Poem Source First Line: I remember cully: this is what happened there. As the captain turned Last Line: We can be at our best, without apology, and bear our lives in its song Subject(s): Poetry Readings; Travel WARNING TO THE READER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes farm granaries become especially beautiful when all the oats Last Line: So I wouldn't perish, and that's a lot more important to me Subject(s): Books; Poetry Readings; Reading WARNING TO THE READER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes farm granaries become especially beautiful when all the oats Last Line: A skull on the open boardwood floor Subject(s): Books; Poetry Readings WHY A POETRY READING?, by SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM Subject(s): Poetry Readings |
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