Tag Archives: Poetry
#POETRYTOME PHOTO CONTEST
September 27, 2014You could win a prize and have a photo displayed at the upcoming Dodge Poetry Festival! “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off,” Emily Dickinson famously said, “I know that is poetry.” Coming … Continue reading
2014 Featured Festival Poet: Tomás Q. Morín
September 9, 2014Tomás Q. Morín is a story teller. His voice is dark and mysterious, rich with imagination and lilting with absurdity. A Larger Country, Morín’s first book of poems, conjures the image of a cloaked figure sitting fireside, spinning tales. He … Continue reading
2014 Featured Festival Poet: Sharon Olds
August 29, 2014Photo by Marcus Mam, Vogue, September 2012 Through ten collections of poems, Sharon Olds has turned an unflinching eye toward the ecstasies and sorrows of living in the human body. Every stage of life is meticulously observed and explored: childhood, … Continue reading
2014 Featured Festival Poet: Rachel McKibbens
August 26, 2014Photo courtesy of rachelmckibbens.com Rachel McKibbens’s poetry feels like a product of dark magic–not meaning it is evil or bad, but rather a miracle arisen from misery. McKibbens is a phoenix, proud and resplendent amongst her ashes. She starts with … Continue reading
2014 Featured Festival Poet: Anis Mojgani
August 25, 2014Photo by Jered Scott Anis Mogjani is a contagious poet. His poems make you want to fall in love with the world all over again. To look at the world with fresh eyes, to wonder and to marvel. His combination … Continue reading
2014 Featured Festival Poet: Shara McCallum
August 22, 2014“I’m equally interested in myth as much as I’m interested in history, both personal and public. I also have always loved best three things, which explain why I became a poet: song, story and metaphor.” Have you ever wished you … Continue reading
2014 Featured Festival Poet: Rebecca Lindenberg
August 20, 2014Rebecca Lindenberg’s fascination with language is apparent and infectious throughout Love, An Index, her first book of poems. Each poem underscores both the power and ineptitude of language in the face of the ineffable, and one would be hard-pressed to … Continue reading
2014 Featured Festival Poet: Yusef Komunyakaa
August 15, 2014Listen to Yusef Komunyakaa at the 2004 Dodge Poetry Festival recite his poem about visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. for the first time, “Facing It.” The simple phrase, “facing it” could almost stand for Komunyakaa’s ars poetica. … Continue reading
2014 Featured Festival Poet: Saeed Jones
August 8, 2014Saeed Jones quips that he “grew up in the South, or survived growing up in the South,” as a gay man of color. Many of the poems in his chapbook “When The Only Light is Fire” take place in a … Continue reading
2014 Featured Festival Poet: Ishion Hutchinson
August 8, 2014Photo courtesy of IshionHutchinson.com “Once you are a part of a landscape, it enters your body and you gain a precision of language that is almost geological.” (Ishion Hutchinson, in an interview with Ashlie Kauffman on jmwwblog) Ishion Hutchinson’s incantatory … Continue reading
2014 Featured Festival Poet: Tung Hui Hu
August 6, 2014Photo Courtesy of MinePoems.com Below is a video of Tung Hui Hu reading poems from his three books of poetry The Book of Motion, Mine, and Greenhouses, Lighthouses: Hu’s soft delivery beckons the listener to lean closer and pay attention, … Continue reading
2014 Featured Festival Poet: Marie Howe
August 6, 2014Marie Howe’s reading of her poem, “The Gate,” opens a portal into her poetry. She has said that “Poetry, to me, is the story of the soul on earth, here and now. What it’s like to be alive, here and … Continue reading
2014 Featured Festival Poet: Cathy Park Hong
August 1, 2014Photo courtesy of Poetry Foundation For a small peek into Cathy Park Hong’s poetry, watch her read her poem “Ballad of O”: If you hadn’t known ahead of time that the poem only uses one vowel, would you have realized … Continue reading
2014 Featured Festival Poet: Ona Gritz
August 1, 2014Photo courtesy of MainStreetRag.com No corner of Ona Gritz’s house is closed to the public. When Gritz writes a poem, she invites readers to sit at her kitchen table, on her living room couch, at the foot of her bed. … Continue reading
2014 Featured Festival Poet: Camille Dungy
July 25, 2014Photo by Ray Black, University of Georgia, courtesy of PoetryFoundation.org To get to know Camille Dungy, watch her read “before her heart, a mechanical aperture, closed” which starts at 7:50 here: The poem risks heading into the world of cliché—a … Continue reading