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Recent U.S. Poet Laureates Infograph

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Photo : l. to r. John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, Patsy Southgate,Bill Berkson, Kenneth Koch, copyright © Mario Schifano, 1964.The image is taken from Homage to Frank O’Hara, ed. Bill Berkson and Joe LeSueur

Photo : l. to r. John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, Patsy Southgate,
Bill Berkson, Kenneth Koch, copyright © Mario Schifano, 1964.
The image is taken from Homage to Frank O’Hara, ed. Bill Berkson and Joe LeSueur

anticipatedstranger: Abe’s Peanut just released a set of postcards for kids with poems by Timothy Donnelly (featuring this card, Edna the Echidna, and Floyd the Airborne Hydroid, among others) and clip art by me.

anticipatedstranger:

Abe’s Peanut just released a set of postcards for kids with poems by Timothy Donnelly (featuring this card, Edna the Echidna, and Floyd the Airborne Hydroid, among others) and clip art by me.

from “Advice to Myself” Don’t keep all the pieces of the puzzlesor the doll’s tiny shoes in pairs, don’t worrywho uses whose toothbrush or if anythingmatches, at all.Except one word to another. Or a thought. —Louise Erdrich (Happy b-day, L.E.)

from “Advice to Myself”

Don’t keep all the pieces of the puzzles
or the doll’s tiny shoes in pairs, don’t worry
who uses whose toothbrush or if anything
matches, at all.
Except one word to another. Or a thought.

—Louise Erdrich

(Happy b-day, L.E.)

Nikki Giovanni — born today.

Nikki Giovanni — born today.

poetrysociety: from a children’s activity book on Gwendolyn Brooks. 

poetrysociety:

from a children’s activity book on Gwendolyn Brooks.


 

from Kiki Smith’s Emily Dickinson Sampler

from Kiki Smith’s Emily Dickinson Sampler

poetrysociety:  Today, in 1913, Ezra Pound published this poem:In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.

poetrysociety:

 Today, in 1913, Ezra Pound published this poem:

In a Station of the Metro 

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

Abraham Lincoln’s emo poetry. And now away to seek some scene Less painful than the last — With less of horror mingled in The present and the past—

Abraham Lincoln’s emo poetry.


And now away to seek some scene
Less painful than the last —
With less of horror mingled in
The present and the past—

Abraham Lincoln
And sky’s first poem is always milk gushing straight down door we face as we face a mirror —John Yau

And sky’s first poem

is always

milk

gushing

straight

down

door

we face

as we face

a mirror

—John Yau