Posts Tagged ‘National Poetry Month’
National Poetry Month 2020 Blog List
This National Poetry Month 2020 has been full of amazing poetry, poets, and community. In case you missed any of our amazing NPM Blog posts, here is a recap of all the thoughts, ideas, and reflections offered up by our esteemed group of NPM Blog poets. Thank you to all our contributors for your voices…
Read MoreA World of Poetry and Fun
by Janet Rogers for National Poetry Month, April 2020 I am a full time writer. I am also single and child-free which makes being a full time writer, that much more fun. I mention this as a way to introduce my position as a global writer. I travel extensively for my career and I…
Read MoreWhy is Saint John's Head in my Petri Dish?
by Eleonore Schönmaier for National Poetry Month, April 2020 Recently I said to a Greek composer, “I’ve spent my life stranded between languages.” He said, “You have to learn more languages so that you can be stranded in more places.” I’ve started memorizing the Greek alphabet and a few words. Διάλογος is dialogue and ποίημα…
Read MoreWhy is Saint John’s Head in my Petri Dish?
by Eleonore Schönmaier for National Poetry Month, April 2020 Recently I said to a Greek composer, “I’ve spent my life stranded between languages.” He said, “You have to learn more languages so that you can be stranded in more places.” I’ve started memorizing the Greek alphabet and a few words. Διάλογος is dialogue and ποίημα…
Read MoreGrow Up in a World of Poetry
by Janice Zhang for National Poetry Month, April 2020 At the age of 22, I came to Canada to do my post-graduate study. After graduation, I landed a job in Toronto and then became an immigrant. Having an explorer’s mindset, I love trying out new food, visiting different places, and learning about other cultures.…
Read MoreMy World of Poetry
by SPIN El Poeta for National Poetry Month, April 2020 Wajxaqib’ Aq’ab’al (Escrito) Jun Toj (Editado) Keb’ Tz’i’ (Finalizado) Saludos familia, desde el territorio ancestral Cree e Inuit de Whapmagoostui/Kuujjuarapik. I AM a Guatemayan refugee, child of a single mother, keeper of the sacred Mayan Cholq’ij calendar, spoken word poet, rapper and youth advocate. I…
Read MoreFructification, Creative Misunderstanding, Empathy: East and West Dissolve
by Sonja Arntzen for National Poetry Month, April 2020 Since the early twentieth century, by a process Ezra Pound called “fructification,” the poetries of East Asia have nourished poetry in English. Pound used the term writing a preface in 1918 for Ernest Fenollosa’s essay, “The Chinese Written Character as Medium for Poetry.” That essay was…
Read MoreCommunicating Vessels
by Beatriz Hausner for National Poetry Month, April 2020 At its most essential, translation is the transfer of textual or verbal objects from one language to another. Literary translation can be more readily compared to a kind of alchemy, where the contents of one vessel are poured into another vessel, and back again, to create…
Read MoreLearn to Read Minds in Only 171,476* Easy Steps!
by Anita Dolman for National Poetry Month, 2020 As I was growing up, rural southwestern Ontario was a homogenous blend of mostly second-to-sixth-generation townies and farmers, all stemming more or less from Britain and Western Europe, with the occasional, exotic Eastern European family mixed in. Most families had long ago abandoned their ancestral languages at…
Read MoreWhen Poems Are Rooms
by Onjana Yawnghwe for National Poetry Month, April 2020 Poems are places for the mind, and as places mark you, so does poetry. Yet the mind is currently occupied, table for one. If the mind is a room, there would be no floor space, the shelves crowded with pictures of strangers, loose wires, and odd…
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