The New York Times Magazine announced today that it is ending its poetry column after nine years. One more of the 1000-plus cuts trying to kill the poetic imagination. Shame on you.
@nytimes
@nytimesbooks
Thanks to
@Cheltpoetfest
&
@AnnaSaund1
for the opportunity to read to a lovely audience & then give a workshop. & big thanks to
@BloodaxeBooks
for your tireless work to support poetry and poets. Very proud to have Wild Nights out in the UK. Can't wait to visit...someday...
Dead Poets Respond to the Current Pandemic (1)
Edna Millay
I shall infect you presently, my dear,
Walt Whitman
Do I isolate myself? Very well then, I isolate myself.
I am large. I quarantine multitudes.
@agnesfrim
Thanks for this lovely gesture. That's why I wrote it. (I actually made cards & am waiting for the chance to slip one under the stall like a bit of toilet paper...)
Stoked about a shoutout from Phoebe Waller-Bridge of
@fleabag
in the NYTimes "By the Book" today--I f-ing LOVE HER! Retromingent fangirling here.
@phoebewallerbr1
Dead Poets Respond to the Current Pandemic (4)
Emily Dickinson
“Coronavirus” is the thing with spikes-
That enters through your face-
And hijacks the cells without all the kill-the-infidel stuff-
Then does your life displace-
Dead Poets Respond to the Current Pandemic (3)
T.S. Eliot
Let us go then, you and I, six feet apart,
While the evening is spread out against the sky
Like an ICU patient wheezing upon a ventilator;
Let us go, through certain deserted-except-for-young-people streets,
No time to read the Mueller Report? Watch it here (part 2: 10 counts of possible obstruction), presented by actors including the amazing John Lithgow as The Angry Creamsicle himself.
So I was asked to do a poetry playlist for a web site, and I put up the poems I recited for the recent
@BBCRadio4
show I presented on The Lightning Field. Poems by
@JoyHarjo
and others.Check out the poems & show:
Dead Poets Respond to the Current Pandemic (5)
Theodore Roethke
In a dark time, the Dow begins to sink;
I call my broker in the deepening shade
ahead of everyone else thanks to my inside knowledge acquired as a Senator.
Dead Poets Respond to the Current Pandemic (2)
Wallace Stevens
Among twenty stocked items,
The only moving thing
Was the toilet paper.
William Butler Yeats
I sought a test for COVID-19, and searched for it in vain,
I sought it daily for six weeks or so.
“I don’t care what you’re wearing right now
as you don’t think of me at all…I’ve already disappeared
like a dead girl in a police procedural
but you’re not the detective…& I’m not dead…”
@kim_addonizio
in
@adroitjournal
“What matters in your work, ultimately, is not how much it pleases an editor, but whether it has integrity — integrity of vision as much as language.”
@doriannelaux
@kim_addonizio
Next on
#CityLightsLIVE
-
@kim_addonizio
!
Celebrating her new book, Now We're Getting Somewhere (published by
@wwnorton
).
With Brittany Perham, Peter Kline, and Tracey Knapp. One week from today.
Nothing like being on top of the world in the giant sequoia forest to talk about fires--beautiful & sad to see what's happening to these amazing trees.
…
LIGHTNING IN THE MIND...I presented this radio show about Walter de Maria's amazing land art with my lovely producer
@Sara_Jane_Hall
on
@BBCRadio4
-- poems by
@JoyHarjo
, Simon Ortiz, and others--catch it live today or anytime online next 30 days.
Tiny Love Stories: ‘A Dishonest, Possibly-Cheating-on-Me Boyfriend’
NY TIMES MODERN LOVE
My tiny love story for my brother in
@nytimes
--"Trusting the Edge."
14 new books you can't wait to get your hands on. via
@lithub
My daughter Aya Cash (essay in Notes from the Bathroom Line, ed. by
@amybethsol
)
and I have nailed down TWO of these spots!