Download or read book Poetry City USA Vol 1 Poems Read at the Inaugural Great Twin Cities Poetry Read Essays Reviews Interviews written by Matt Mauch Editor and published by Lowbrow Press LLC. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in this anthology were read at the inaugural Great Twin Cities Poetry Read in Minneapolis/St. Paul Includes poems by: Richard Robbins, MC Hyland, Joyce Sutphen, Katrina Vandenberg, Paula Cisewski, Kathryn Kysar, William Reichard, Tim Nolan, Cass Dalglish, Jim Lenfesty, James Cihlar, Eric Lorberer, Richard Terrill, Margaret Hasse, Matt Rasmussen, Candace Black, LouAnn Shepard Muhm, Leslier A. Miller, Patricia Kirkpatrick, Gretchen Rueth, Todd Boss, Brad Liening, Morgan Grayce Willow, Greg Hewett And essays, reviews, and interviews by: Matt Mauch, Richard Robbins, MC Hyland, Lynette Reini-Grandell, Kate Shuknecht, Brad Liening, Morgan Grayce Willow, Richard Terrill

Download or read book Poetry City U S A written by Frank L. Wilhelm and published by . This book was released on with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Verging Cities written by Natalie Scenters-Zapico and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From undocumented men named Angel, to angels falling from the sky, Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s gripping debut collection, The Verging Cities, is filled with explorations of immigration and marriage, narco-violence and femicide, and angels in the domestic sphere. Deeply rooted along the US-México border in the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, and Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, these poems give a brave new voice to the ways in which international politics affect the individual. Composed in a variety of forms, from sonnet and epithalamium to endnotes and field notes, each poem distills violent stories of narcos, undocumented immigrants, border patrol agents, and the people who fall in love with each other and their traumas. The border in Scenters-Zapico’s The Verging Cities exists in a visceral place where the real is (sur)real. In these poems mouths speak suspended from ceilings, numbered metal poles mark the border and lovers’ spines, and cities scream to each other at night through fences that “ooze only silt.” This bold new vision of border life between what has been named the safest city in the United States and the murder capital of the world is in deep conversation with other border poets—Benjamin Alire Saenz, Gloria Anzaldúa, Alberto Ríos, and Luis Alberto Urrea—while establishing itself as a new and haunting interpretation of the border as a verge, the beginning of one thing and the end of another in constant cycle.

Download or read book My America written by Lee Bennett Hopkins and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In My America, Lee Bennett Hopkins weaves together fifty poems -- grouped by geographic region -- to create a remarkable portrait of the United States. Here is America in all its stunning variety, from the dramatic seacoast of the Northeast and the rippling cornfields of the Plains States to the shimmering deserts of the Southwest and the majestic redwood forests of the Pacific Coast. But here, too, are the ties that bind this nation together -- the hopes and dreams of those who live in our cities and towns and on farms. The voices of beloved poets like Langston Hughes, Carl Sandburg, Nikki Giovanni, and Lilian Moore blend with new voices to sing not just of landmarks like the Mississippi River, the Grand Canyon, and the Everglades, but of daily life across the land. Complementing these personal, moving visions of America are maps of the regions and fascinating facts for each state. Stephen Alcorn's brilliant, textured artwork makes this book a feast for the eyes as well as for the imagination. Impressive for its breadth, depth, and beauty, My America is a volume readers will savor as they read it time and time again. It is fitting homage to our wideranging, ever-changing land.

Download or read book The Poetry of the Americas written by Harris Feinsod and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book narrates exchanges between English- and Spanish-language poets in the American hemisphere from the late 1930s through the rise of the 1960s. It doing so, it contributes to a crucial current of humanistic inquiry: the effort to write a cosmopolitan literary history adequate to the age of globalization. Building on correspondence and manuscripts from collections in Europe and the Americas, the book first traces the material contours of an evolving literary network that exceeds the conventional model of "the two Americas." These relations depend on changing contexts: an era of state-sponsored transnationalism, from the wartime intensification of Good Neighbor diplomacy, to the Cold War cultural policy programs of the Alliance for Progress in the 1960s; a prosperous market for translations of Latin American poetry in the US; and a growing alternative print sphere of bilingual vanguard journals such as El Corno Emplumado (Mexico City, 1962-1969). As the book articulates these histories of exchange, it also theorizes how poets employ the resources of language to transform popular images of the hemisphere from a locus of political conflict into a venue of supranational cultural citizenship. Feinsod describes how inter-Americanism was enacted through diplomatic structures of literary address, multilingual writing, and appeals to a shared indigenous heritage through the genre of the meditation on ruins. By tracing the coevolution of midcentury poetry with the geopolitics of the hemisphere, the book expands existing literary histories of the period through revelatory comparative readings supported by archival findings"--

Download or read book Poetry City USA written by Matt Mauch and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book City Poems and American Urban Crisis written by Nate Mickelson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg to Miguel Algarín and Wanda Coleman, this groundbreaking book explores the ways in which contemporary poets have engaged with America's changing urban experience since 1945. City Poems and American Urban Crisis brings post-war American poetry into conversation with developments in city planning, activism, and urban theory to demonstrate that taking city poetry seriously as a mode of analysis and critique can enhance our attempts to produce more just and equitable urban futures. Poets covered include: Miguel Algarín, Gwendolyn Brooks, Wanda Coleman, Allen Ginsberg, Lewis MacAdams, Charles Olson, George Oppen, and William Carlos Williams.

Download or read book I Speak of the City written by Stephen Wolf and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Speak of the City is the most extensive collection of poems ever assembled about New York. Beginning with an early piece by Jacob Steendam (from when the city was called New Amsterdam) and continuing through poems written in the aftermath of 9/11, this anthology features voices from more than a dozen countries. It includes two Nobel Prize recipients, fifteen Pulitzer Prize winners, and many other recognizable names, but it also preserves the work of long-neglected poets who celebrate the wild possibilities and colossal achievements of this epic city. Poets capture New York's major moments and transformations, writing of Hudson's arrival, Stuyvesant's prejudice, and the city's astonishing growth and gentrification. They speak of the thrills of a skyscraper's observation deck and the privations of teeming tenements. They portray the immigrant experience at Ellis Island and the decay, fear, and unexpected kindness on a subway ride. They take place on sidewalks, bridges, and docks; in taxis, buses, and ferries; and even within nature. The Brooklyn Bridge, Times Square, Broadway, the Statue of Liberty, and other familiar landmarks are recast through the prism of individual experience yet still reflect the seeming invincibility of New York and its status as a cultural magnet for the freethinking and experimental. While certain subjects and themes can be found in all urban verse, poems about New York have their own restless rhythm and ever-changing style, much like the city itself. Whether writing sonnets, epics, or experimental or imagistic verse, each of these poets has been inspired by the marvels and madness, humor and heartbreak of an enduring city.

Download or read book Deaf Republic written by Ilya Kaminsky and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence? Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear—they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater; and Galya’s girls, heroically teaching signing by day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Ilya Kaminsky’s long-awaited Deaf Republic confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.

Download or read book The Wound Dresser written by Walt Whitman and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Wound Dresser by Walt Whitman

Download or read book Poetry City Usa written by Matt Mauch and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: POEMS AND OTHER PROSE ON POETRY BYKyle McCord * Jenny Yang Cropp * Glenn Shaheen *Matthew Guenette * Jim Coppoc * Ian Beattie * Matt Ryan * MC Hyland * Rebecca Lehmann * Bruce Covey * John Colburn * Morgan Grace Willow * Betsy Brown * Deborah Keenan * Gary Dop * John Medeiros *Richard Robbins * Jeff Skemp * Traci Brimhall *Paula Cisewski * Carrie Lorig * Paige Reihl * LukePingel * Haley Lasché * Kara Candito * ErikTschekunow * Cary Waterman * Lee Ann Roripaugh * Kris Bigalk * Heid Erdrich * Leslie Adrienne Miller *Adrianne Mathiowetz * Ryan Collins * Lewis Mundt * Carol Connolly * Juliet Patterson * Seth Berg * Feng Sun Chen * Ryan Vine * Kelly Everding * Lightsey Darst * Dylan Hicks * Brian Spears * Sharon Chmielarz * Adam Fell * Dobby Gibson * John Jodzio * Michael Walsh * Lynette Reini-Grandell * John Bradley * Su Smallen * Kathryn Kysar * Amy McCann * Matt Mauch *

Download or read book Poetry City Usa written by Matt Mauch and published by Lowbrow Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems, reviews, interviews, essays, and other prose on poetry by Kris Bigalk Tim Nolan Cullen Bailey Burns David Mura Heid E. Erdrich Jim Redmond Kyle Adamson Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen Francine Sterle William Waltz Sarah Fox MC Hyland John Medeiros Patrick Hicks Matt Ryan Caitlin Bailey Thompson Christopher Title Scott Vetsch Courtney Algeo H.C. Wiederholt Paige Reihl Sean Hill Lynette Reini-Grandell Sun Yung Shin Anna George Meek Paula Cisewski Sharon Chmielarz Jim Coppoc Stacia M. Fleegal Merle Depasquale Paul D. Dickinson Joyce Sutphen Matt Rasmussen Gretchen Marquette Steve Healey G.E. Patterson Dean Young Dobby Gibson Brad Liening John Medieros William Reichard Matt Mauch Sharon Chmielarz Cullen Bailey Burns Joyce Sutphen James Cihlar Morgan Grayce Willow Regan Smith Leslie Adrienne Miller Stacia Fleegal Cass Dalglish Tim Nolan Kathryn Kysar

Download or read book The Triggering Town Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing written by Richard Hugo and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992-08-17 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Richard Hugo's free-swinging, go-for-it remarks on poetry and the teaching of poetry are exactly what are needed in classrooms and in the world."—James Dickey Richard Hugo was that rare phenomenon of American letters—a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggering Town is Hugo's now-classic collection of lectures, essays, and reflections, all "directed toward helping with that silly, absurd, maddening, futile, enormously rewarding activity: writing poems." Anyone, from the beginning poet to the mature writer to the lover of literature, will benefit greatly from Hugo's sayd, playful, profound insights and advice concerning the mysteries of literary creation.

Download or read book Poetry from Beyond the Grave written by Francisco Cândido "Chico" Xavier and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry from Beyond the Grave is the first English publication of a large selection of poems by the Brazilian medium and Spiritist leader Francisco Cândido “Chico” Xavier. These poems, originally collected in the volume Parnaso de Além-Túmulo, were dictated to Xavier by a variety of spirits of Brazilian poets from the afterlife, as journeying souls or as witnesses of the spiritual city Nosso Lar, “our house.” Poetry from Beyond the Grave is a veritable collection of haunted writing, in which poets present their posthumous work as if they were alive. The brilliant translation by Vitor Pequeno is supplemented by an extensive afterword by Jeremy Fernando, who traces what it means to speak through the other.

Download or read book White City written by Mark Irwin and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Irwin In "White City, Mark Irwin makes stunning jumps in imagination to create poetry that is Rilkean in conception and execution and speaks to America at the end of the 20th century. Irwin's vision for America is as broad as Walt Whitman's while his language is propelled by changing rhythms, lush music and fresh imagery.

Download or read book Los Angeles Is Hideous written by Andrew Heaton and published by . This book was released on 2021-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedian Andrew Heaton's scathing poetry collection about the greater Los Angeles necroplex

Download or read book Poetry City USA Vol 5 written by Multiple Authors and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry by:Katharine Rauk * Alina Gregorian * Michael Bazzett * Kris Bigalk * Kelly Terwilliger * Bob Hicok * Amy Fladeboe * Tayve Neese Timothy Otte * Crystal Gibbins * Skylar Alexander * Matthew Lippman * Kate Shuknecht * Larry Eby * Peter Stein * Caroline Cabrera * Kyle McCord * Katie Vagnino * Elizabeth Lampman * John Greiner * Kelly Corinda * Maggie Smith * Ben Pease * Brett Salsbury * Jerry Vanleperen * Lucas Pingel * Hannah Stephenson * Brian Beatty * Jeanne Lutz * Joyce Sutphen * Noah Siela * BJ Love * Sara LefsykProse on Poetry by:Dobby Gibson * Lee Ann Roripaugh * Kyle Adamson * Sandra Youngs * Lukas Hall * Michael Gould * Joshua Barsody * Jasmin Rae Ziegler * Patrick Werle * Matt Mauch