MetaFilter posts tagged with poem

For me, it was an away game.

idiopath — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:00:54 -0800

Jaap Blonk, Namesake of the blonkorgan, performer, sound poet. Aaa aaA AAøøøø øøøø øAEE Eeeeii iIIII Iiiiüüü üüüüüüüiee eeooooOU UUUUoo ooooo. previously. previously.

A horrible poem

Sparx — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:16:36 -0800

A Poem by Stephen King The poem is stored by Playboy.com so NSFW. Also, body horror and vernacular involved.

Wizard, as an ironist, you alone receive some sense of subjective freedom.

patricio — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:47:01 -0800

Review of Gauntlet (Atari, 1985) By Ross Sutherland and found via this awesome project

A Poem. By Henry Gibson.

QuestionableSwami — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:25:02 -0800

Character actor and comedian Henry Gibson died today at 73. As an original member of the ground-breaking comedy series Laugh-In, Gibson's characters The Poet and the cocktail party priest helped make the show a wild success. Gibson also had a long career as an actor, both in television (most recently as Judge Clark Brown on Boston Legal) and film. Some of his more memorable performances were in Robert Altman's Nashville (receiving a nomination for a Golden Globe for his role as country singer Haven Hamilton), The Long Goodbye, The 'Burbs, and The Blues Brothers.

twitter defines our world, in poetry

HuronBob — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:36:03 -0800

the worlds longest poem... I have a twitter account, I hate twitter... but this, somehow, this might define.... well...something..

Out of that I have written these songs

Potomac Avenue — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:34:29 -0800

Free Verse The result of a contest sponsored by the Academy of American Poets to promote Poem in your Pocket Day. Happy National Poetry Month ! Prev ious ly

in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:58:29 -0800

Should you find yourself wandering around the city of Leiden, the Netherlands sometime, you may notice some curious markings on the city's walls.

These Muurgedichten ("Wall Poems") adorn many of the town's streets (clickable map), and many English-language poets are represented: one John Keats, for instance, inside a bookshop; Dylan Thomas, E. E. Cummings, W.B. Yeats, some guy called William Shakespeare, or this ode to Charlie Parker by American William Waring Cuney. But poets of many other languages and nationalities can be found throughout the city. Just to name a few: Charles Baudelaire (French), Jorge Luis Borges (Spanish - Argentina), Herman Gorter (Dutch). And being native to this here neck of the woods I would be remiss if I were to neglect mentioning some of my favourites: apart from the Cummings one mentioned above, my hero of Dutch poetry J.C. Bloem's appropriately overgrown tribute to Paul Verlaine; and Guillaume Apollinaire's Dadaist/Surrealist "Loin du Pigeonnier" ("Far From the Dovecote"). Lastly, Muurgedichten collects manifestations of public poetry found elsewhere under its "Not in Leiden" heading. I couldn't resist a selection:

Humorous medical one in Brazil (Portuguese).

Martin Carter (Netherlands Antilles, English)

Excerpt from JFK's inaugural address (Boston, English)

Childrens Rights (Zanzibar, English)

Policemans Prayer (Virginia, US, English)

Short, brilliantly framed Byron quote (Utrecht, NL, English)

No man is illegal (Sittard, NL, Dutch)

I am a poet. Should I want the rose to bloom, the rose will bloom. (Vlaardigen, NL, Dutch)

You'll Think, What's That Poet Doing (Monnickendam, NL, Dutch) You'll think, what's that poet doing In our alley On our wall In our town When he's not from 'round here. To be frank: so do I. But still, now you're looking at me. I can talk to you, say That I am happy you're looking at me And then you might for instance say "likewise". We wouldn't have done so otherwise.

The Gawain Project

Effigy2000 — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:18:46 -0800

The Gawain Project is an ongoing translation of the late 14th century anonymous poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (originally written in Middle English) into Modern English, for the amusement of Arthurians and anyone who likes a good story. [via mefi projects]

written on terrestrial things

eustacescrubb — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:31:14 -0800

Former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky (re)posted Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush" to Slate. Discussion ensued, and became very lively when National Book Award winner Mark Doty observed that the poem contains an overt homage to an earlier poem by Keats. Guggenheim fellow Mark Halliday, MacArthur fellow Jim Powell and Annie Finch chime in. An opportunistic Billy Collins (also a former Poet Laureate & Guggenheim fellow) even showed up, attracted by the discussion of a "bird poem." A fascinating look at some of the finest American poets geeking out over poems that were hits before your mother was born.

Mystery on 5th Avenue

Who_Am_I — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:03:36 -0800

It began when Mr. Klinsky threw in his two cents, a vague request that a poem he had written for and about his family be lodged in a wall somewhere, Ms. Sherry said, “put in a bottle and hidden away as if it were a time capsule.”
Sometimes when you make a simple suggestion about the remodeling of your $8.5 million 5th Ave. apartment, the designer goes a little overboard. In an awesome way. Don't miss the slideshow.

Woe is me, my life hard-fated!

klangklangston — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:03:54 -0800

Anglo-Finnish artist Sanna Annukka's vibrant, flat design work (especially her Icons series) got me curious about her, well, iconography.

She mentioned The Kalevala previously, the Finnish national epic poem (in Finnish here), a tale of creation and heroism that arguably spurred the Finns to independence from the Russians.

Like so much else epic and awesome, it spawned a '70s prog band, with three albums.

Poem as Comic Strip

Miko — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:16:08 -0800

Poetry's turn to go graphic. The Poetry Foundation has invited a few graphic novelists to illustrate poems from its archive. Via.

You peed on my car but I still love you. WHY???

Smedleyman — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:49:57 -0800

Got an embarrassing love letter or humiliating photo from your angsty teenage years you’d like plastered all over the web, perhaps recited aloud and featured in live performances? Thought so

A reading of "A Child's Christmas in Wales" by Dylan Thomas

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:24:48 -0800

Audio of Dylan Thomas reading his poem "A Child's Christmas in Wales". (real media and mp3)

Clement Clark, No More?

Miko — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 07:59:56 -0800

What to my wondering eyes should appear but the suggestion that "A Visit From St. Nicholas," the classic poem which has defined the American Santa Claus, from red suit and big belly to reindeer and chimney-delivery method, was written not by classics professor Clement Clarke Moore but by poet and military man Henry Livingston. Though some think the authorship controversy is sugarplum vision of Livingston's descendents, other scholars the claim: literary 'detective' Donald Foster agrees (though his sleuthing record is not unblemished). Leading historian of Christmas Stephen Nissenbaum, says that either way, St. Nick is the product of the same social world, that of the wealthy white elite in the New York of the early Republic. If the claim is true, then in the convoluted history of the manuscript we've gotten some reindeer names wrong.

Rage, Rage, Ted

The Bellman — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:17:06 -0800

Being But Men. Every year around this time, this interstitial runs and I am reminded of the genius of Dylan Thomas and how much fun it must be to make interstitials for TNT. The text, for those who prefer not to get their culture from Ted Turner, follows: Being But Men Being but men, we walked into the trees Afraid, letting our syllables be soft For fear of waking the rooks, For fear of coming Noiselessly into a world of wings and cries. If we were children we might climb, Catch the rooks sleeping, and break no twig, And, after the soft ascent, Thrust out our heads above the branches To wonder at the unfailing stars. Out of confusion, as the way is, And the wonder, that man knows, Out of the chaos would come bliss. That, then, is loveliness, we said, Children in wonder watching the stars, Is the aim and the end. Being but men, we walked into the trees.

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness..."

amyms — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:39:22 -0800

Too Hot To Hear. Fifty years ago today, a San Francisco Municipal Court judge ruled that Allen Ginsberg's Beat-era poem "Howl" was not obscene. Yet today, a New York public broadcasting station decided not to air the poem, fearing that the Federal Communications Commission will find it indecent and crush the network with crippling fines. More on Allen Ginsberg here. Via.

The Story of the Fountain

stbalbach — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:33:45 -0800

The Story of the Fountain, poem by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), with 42 woodcut illustrations.

This is the YouTube poetry post.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:31:13 -0800

Poets on YouTube: Bukowski; Dylan Thomas; Jim Morrison; Allen Ginsberg; Sylvia Plath; Billy Collins; Cookie Monster; and what the hell, even Jacques Brel.

But there's plenty of readings by amateurs as well: for example, lilcutiewithabooty06 reads e e cummings; Michael reads cummings really fast; Tom Waits and Bono read Bukowski; bearded men read Lewis Carroll and Shakespeare; and what if Emily Dickinson had a ukulele?

Mouseover links to see titles; feel free to add your favourites.

I Have In Me The Last Unanswered Question

amyms — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:46:33 -0800

Why Do You Stay Up So Late? An interactive, illustrated poem. [note: sound and flash animation]... From the wonderful Born Magazine, "an experimental venue marrying literary arts and interactive media." A previous project from Born Magazine was featured on Metafilter in 2004.

His object all sublime / He will achieve in time

Smart Dalek — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:45:11 -0800

Court Decision, re: Fisher v. Lowe, Feb. 1999. Car ends up in man's yard. Man sues driver. Judge administers poetic justice. [via]

Let virtue be our soul's food.

arse_hat — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:38:02 -0800

121 years ago today Louis Riel was hanged. A lost poem he wrote for his jailer has a new home at the University of Saskatchewan.

Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

tellurian — Wed, 31 May 2006 00:50:28 -0800

Tyger [a short movie]. The poem.

Do not speak of secret matters in a field full of little hills.

steef — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 13:11:32 -0800

"I am still / The black swan of trespass on alien waters." Ernest Lalor Malley (1918-1943). With the posthumous publication of such poems as "Dürer: Innsbruck, 1495" and "Petit Testament" in the journal Angry Penguins, Ern Malley was championed as the new voice of modern Australian poetry. The resulting scandal and obscenity trial would change poetry and literary theory forever. Plus, the ABC's documentary, The Ern Malley Story (listen).

Haiku day, for those outside of the US.

soplerfo — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 07:47:48 -0800

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