Oh wow.
In the inaugural issue of the lit journal Tongue of the World, Brian Oliu reads a poem influenced by the point and click video game ‘Manic Mansion’. The interplay between the poem and the game—which features text—is fascinating.
Love! —A.P.
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Cherry blossoms and poetry collide! As National Poetry Month wraps up, let’s look back at a visit to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Cherry Esplanade where we asked a few people to read from A.E. Houseman’s “A Shropshire Lad, II”. —A.P.
And, so
it has taken me
all of sixty years
to understand
that water is the finest drink,
and bread the most delicious food,
and that art is worthless
unless it plants
a measure of splendor in people’s hearts.
it has taken me
all of sixty years
to understand
that water is the finest drink,
and bread the most delicious food,
and that art is worthless
unless it plants
a measure of splendor in people’s hearts.
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A section of the poem, “Twigs” by Taha Muhammad Ali. The poet died Sunday in Nazareth. Weekly Poem: Remembering Taha Muhammad Ali (via newshour) |
If you are coming down through the narrows of the river Kiang,
Please let me know beforehand,
And I will come out to meet you
As far as Cho-fu-Sa.
— excerpt from Ezra Pound’s translation of Li Po’s “The River-Merchant’s Wife” -A.P.
“To place a bag in a plenty of the boiling added some salt water.
To cook on moderate fire of 15 minutes. To get a bag, having picked up a plug for a loop stipulated for this purpose.
To allow water to flow down.
To open a bag, having broken it off on a line of notches.
To lay out a product on a dish and to add oil to taste.”
— boil in bag kasha celebrates National Poetry Month
A poem for Paws Day:
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
“Fog” by Carl Sandburg
Happy 75th birthday to poet Frederick Seidel! Via The Paris Review, artist James Brown has published a collection of works inspired by one of Seidel’s poems. -Liz
