"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history;
for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars."
-Aristotle-
ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS
Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996,
National Poetry Month is now held every April
Publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools and poets around the country band together to celebrate poetry its vital place in American culture. Thousands of readings, festivals, book displays, workshops, and other events proliferate.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history
choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that
can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that
can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
-Jean-Paul Sartre-
http://www.pw.org/poetrymonth
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric,
but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
-William Butler Yeats-
A DEDICATED BLOGGER PUBLISHES POETRY
perceived through rational words.
-Vladimir Nabokov-
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket;
you put your life into it and make something out of that.
-Mary Oliver-
SUPPORT THE UNIQUE POETS AT THIS SMALL PRESS
Buy a Poetry Book or two this Month.
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READ THE DAILY POETIC OFFERINGS AT
The Rumpus On Line Magazine
http://therumpus.net/sections/
READ THE DAILY POETIC OFFERINGS AT
http://therumpus.net/sections/
I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.
-Rita Dove-
-Allen Ginsberg-
Write On All You Word Wielders
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