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Original post by etimberlake

Original post by etimberlake

from Billy Collins “The Trouble with Poetry”…

“I thought to myself/as a cold wave swirled around my feet/and the lighthouse moved its megaphone over the sea,/which is an image I stole directly/from Lawrence Ferlinghetti-/to be perfectly honest for a moment-”

Original post by sfinn2id

The Poetry Foundation has a neat feature where a graphic novelist makes a comic strip out of a poem. One I particularly like is Paul Hornschemeier’s take on Ted Kooser’s The Giant Slide.

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Original post by rmillard

I came across this video of a representative from Microsoft talking about a new software called Seadragon, and a phenomena called The Photosynth Experience. It is so interesting, in terms of the future of liberal arts, photography, publishing, etc. Technology ahoy!

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/129

(oh, and I am sharing it with the Mother Blogs of all of my blog-savy classes, because I think it is generally relevant and interesting)

Original post by Whitney

“Found Sonnet”
(excerpts taken from Lia Purpura’s On Looking,
the essay entitled “Glaciology”)

During the thaw we were given to see
whole bodies of bone inclined toward each
other; snow melted into vertebrae,
pocked with dirt, and unlikely in their strength.
Bones, stacked, bent, in the attitude of prayer,
the edges honed, precarious, forms arced
over the sewer. White places layer
in smears that others were trained to read.
What remained were not yet remains. It was
clear how the warmth would eat everything
down. Wind blew the shapes, knife-edged, hunched, to ease
a pain, and pack the snow hard. Frayed covering
with the elbows poking through layered land.
A thing that remained to be found and told.

Original post by Whitney

I composed this poem as a mash-up of the stuff written on pill bottles and the OED’s list of definitions for the noun “prescription,” which appear in italics.

“PreSCRIPTion”

montuewedthufrisatsun
Rx only manufactured in Germany
uninterrupted use or possession from time immemorial
may cause drowsiness
may cause dizziness
alcohol intensifies effect
use care
using machines
limitation or restriction of the time within
which an action or claim can be raised
setting down something
beforehand
Rx only do not use if pregnant or suspect you are pregnant take or use this exactly as directed, do not skip doses or discontinue
instruction composition use of medicine treatment
alleviate remedy solution restriction
date filled: discard after:
this is a RED-BROWN, ROUND-shaped, TABLET
imprinted with 9 3 on the front and 7207 on the back
caution: federal law prohibits the transfer of this drug to any person other than the patient for whom it was prescribed.

prescriptionary.
open–> push & turn

Original post by Whitney

maybe it’s lame to have song lyrics stuck in your head and fall in love with them like a poem, but here’s some of the music/lyrics that have been running through my head all day:

[note: these are partial lyrics]

Intuition - Feist

And in came a heatwave
A merciful save
And you choose, you chose
Poetry over prose

A map is more unreal
Than where you’ve been
Or how you feel

Original post by emcla6ep

so i was watching The Upside of Anger, which actually, isn’t a great movie, but it did contain one moment that made me laugh.  the mother is trying to encourage her college-bound daughter to help with dinner, and the mother threatens to her, “maybe you’ll catch me in time to pull my head of the oven.”  for any non-english or poet majors who had been watching, the mother explains to her daughter in the next scene or two that she wanted to study poetry.  like i said, it’s not really any category we have, but i thought people might get a chuckle out of it.

Original post by emcla6ep

(metaphor for a broken spirit.)

(Milton owns a beach-side motel.)

Original post by intertextuality