Poetry

Tibet cries for help Darfur cries for help. Later. We have games to play.  

Mowers be alert Until evening ozone haunts Keep your engines still The Mid-America Regional Council’s annual haiku poetry contest is back, and it’s all about reducing ozone.  

Guest post from our pal, Brian , on how one of my favorite poets of the 60s captured interstitial time to make art.  

Record company Naxos has just issued a CD titled "Schubert Lied - Romantic Poets, vol.  

The common theme from this week's entries to The Denver Post $25 Haiku Contest contemplating the concept of "tents"? Poets love to camp, but they are worried about bears and mountain lions and bugs. To wit: this week's winning verse, by Tony Donovan of Loveland:  

Celebrate the quadracentennial of one of history's greatest poets, with poems, prose, translations, a biography and more from Poets.org  

Susan Keith is the winner of the third annual Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse sponsored by Tom Howard Books. This year's contest awarded $4,500 in cash prizes for the best original poems in traditional verse forms, including a top prize of $1,000. Keith's poem "Remembrance", a...  

Johnmichael Simon of Israel is the winner of the fourth annual Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse sponsored by Tom Howard Books. $4,800 in cash prizes were awarded for the best original poems in traditional verse forms. Simon's poem "On the Border", a depiction of daily life in...  

Poet Audrey McLaren has delivered another inspiring book of poems. In her latest work, I am the Djembe, Audrey allows us access to the rich, complex emotional tapestry that is her life. (PRWeb Jul 31, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Audrey/McLaren/prweb1150404.htm  

“Life is just like a dew-drop in the morning. It is the nature of life that death happens. There is no explanation; it is the nature of life. There is no need for any special reason to be given. Life’s nature is like a dew-drop; it hangs for a while on a leaf of grass; a small breeze and it is...  

... I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed children ...  

Hipster Haiku by Siobhan Adcock Siobhan evokes the spirit of hipsters from all over. Some of her poems had me cracking up and other made me think about life and how things came to be this way. There were also many haikus that revolved around the bar scene, due to her work. I can understand...