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News at Eleven: [Charles] Simic, who succeeded Donald Hall,
Poetry & Poets in Rags | August 5th 2008
another New Hampshire poet, said the job required far more work than he expected. He traveled so much, attended to so many duties and performed at so many events that he went the entire year without writing a new poem. Especially for a prolific poet read more
Poetry Friday
Well-Mannered Frivolity | July 25th 2008 by Susan B. Evans
The White RoomThe obvious is difficultTo prove. Many preferThe hidden. I did, too.I listened to the trees.They had a secretWhich they were about toMake known to me--And then didn't.Summer came. Each treeOn my street had its ownScheherazade. My nights read more
Great Regulars: I once heard Charles Simic, who finished his
Poetry & Poets in Rags | July 22nd 2008
term as the nation's poet laureate this month, tell a story about his mother in the war-ravaged Yugoslavia of his youth. Bartering with a gold-toothed gypsy, she swapped his father's tuxedo for a suckling pig they ate on Christmas. The anecdote embod read more
A Couple of Poems by Charles Simic
Fitzgerald's Poetry Blog | July 22nd 2008 by Fitzgerald
Here are a couple of poems by Charles Simic from YouTube. I like these because of their simple presentation.StoneClassic Ball Room DancingFrom Wikipedia;Charles Simic (IPA: [ˈtʃ͡ɑːɻls ˈʂimitɕ͡], born Dušan Simić, May 9, 1938 in Bel read more
Kay Ryan - the 16th U.S. Poet Laureate
Diana's Art | July 19th 2008 by Diana Jiganie
Castigatori din anii precedenti sunt: Charles Simic, Rita Dove, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, Karl Shapiro, Robert Penn Warren, Joseph Brodsky, Stanley Kunitz, Robert Hass, Donald Hall, Robert Pinsky, Billy Collins, Mark Strand, Ted Kooser. Premiul read more
News at Eleven: [Charles Simic's] is a surrealism
Poetry & Poets in Rags | July 1st 2008
with a conscience, acutely attuned to existential absurdity yet immune to zero-sum nihilism, using elaborate artifice as a delicate instrument to probe everything that makes us all too human.James Tate began his career as something of a child prodigy read more
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Cherryl Floyd-Miller - Rootwork: A Writer's Life and Po… | May 9th 2008 by Cherryl Floyd-Miller
Charles Simic Stepping Down As U.S. Poet LaureateI surely didn't see it coming ... no amount of fairytale budgeting and planning on behalf of poetry at-large could have prepared me for it if I worked at the Library of Congress.Charles Simic is steppi read more
Quotes on Poetry
Mike's Writing Workshop and Newsletter | May 5th 2008 by Mike Geffner
Poetry amounts to arranging words with the greatest specificgravity in the most effective and externally inevitable sequence.- Joseph Brodsky A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates.- Charles Simic Each memorabl read more
A voice from PEN
Antilles | May 3rd 2008
Marlon James is at the PEN World Voices festival in New York; he reports at the PEN American Centre blog on two events he's attended. The first was a panel called Resonances: Contemporary Writers on the Great Works (Charles Simic, Antonio Muñoz Moli read more
A Little Late in the Game
Ruined for Life | April 27th 2008
April is National Poetry Month, which I recalled on Saturday at the Simic Reading. In light of that here's a list of my favorite poets in no particular order. Yes, poetry can be dense, but it needn't be.Charles SimicJohn KeatsWilliam Butler YeatsPatr read more
A Perfect Saturday
Ruined for Life | April 26th 2008
Today my friend Marianne came in from Milwaukee and we went downtown to see Charles Simic, the 15th Poet Laureate, read his works as part of the Annual Poetry Festival. We arrived as he started to read. I loved his poems, which are like mini stories read more
Back Seat
The Cliff Walk | April 23rd 2008 by eddie
Factory by Charles Simic The machines were gone, and so were those who worked them. A single high-backed chair stood like a throne In all that empty space. I was on the floor making myself comfortable For a long night of little slee read more
Hello
The Society of Midnight Wanderers | April 3rd 2008 by The Society of Midnight Wanderers
First I am honored to be a part and included with, some incredible writers,talent and overall, wonderful human beings. Thank you.My Little post, isnt one of mine. It is a poem I am sharing. For a quick backstory: It is National Poetry Month here in t read more
Stone by Charles Simic
bloggista | February 18th 2008 by augel
Go inside a stone That would be my way. Let somebody else become a dove Or gnash with a tiger’s tooth. I am happy to be a stone. From the outside the stone is a riddle: No one knows how to answer it. Yet within, it must be cool and quiet read more
Podcast: Entrevistamos a Jordi Doce, poeta asturiano residente en…
Blog Escritores - Cursos, Concursos y Recursos | February 12th 2008
Jordi Doce (Gijón, 1967) es doctor por la Universidad de Sheffield (Inglaterra) y coordinador del área de edición del Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid. Además de ediciones bilingües de la poesía de Paul Auster, William Blake, T.S. Eliot, Geof read more
Death’s Side of the Bed
John Baker's Blog | February 8th 2008 by John Baker
The New York Times has an interview with Charles Simic, the current American poet laureate. Deborah Solomon asks him what he thinks of the current crop of books on happiness: It’s an industry. It’s really frightening. People need to read a book o read more
Moleskine
Big Window | February 6th 2008 by Robin Reagler
moleskine page, originally uploaded by girlhula. I love notebooks. My friends told me I missed the AWP panel where Charles Simic talked about his. read more
Introducing myself by the way of poetry---3WW
rooted | February 6th 2008 by gautami tripathy
Bridge, Disturbed, Stillsb poet of watermark fame wants us to introduce ourselves. In the way of poetry. No, not by writing poetry. That I will do in another post for which I was tagged. I have taken her questions too. Please do introduce yourself he read more
i sing the body ironic
Canuckflack | February 5th 2008
You know, not all poets have hazy portraits of Walt Whitman in their bathrooms. New York Times magazine interviewed Charles Simic, the US poet laureate, in the magazine this weekend. As a Yugoslavian-born émigré who endured the bombings of Belgrade read more
The Poetry Triumvirate: Charles Simic, Best Sellers, And Tattoos
World Class Poetry Blog | February 2nd 2008 by Allen Taylor
Deborah Solomon of The New York Times interviewed U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic. Now there’s a man with a head on his shoulders. Here are a couple of gems: Poetry doesn’t need much promotion. It is doing quite well in this country. (Amen read more
Three Poets in Winter
JordanCornblog | January 23rd 2008 by Jordy Cornog
Last night I and hundreds of others in Concord, NH, witnessed an amazing reading of poetry by three United States Poets Laureate: Maxine Kumin, Donald Hall, and Charles Simic. Its remarkable to see and hear so much richness and virtuousity in one read more
Driving Home
No Milk Please | September 11th 2007
Minister of our coming doom, preachingOn the car radio, how rightYour Hell and damnation sound to meAs I travel these small, bleak roadsThinking of the mailman's sonThe Army sent back in a sealed coffin.His house is around the next turn.A forlorn mut read more
The White Room by Charles Simic
Big Window | August 23rd 2007 by Robin Reagler
The obvious is difficultTo prove. Many preferThe hidden. I did, too.I listened to the trees.They had a secretWhich they were about toMake known to me--And then didn't.Summer came. Each treeOn my street had its ownScheherazade. My nightsWere a part of read more
And the new poet laureate is...
Sycamore Review | August 3rd 2007
...the wonderful Charles Simic! Simic was named yesterday as the nation's 15th poet laureate. According to James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, Mr. Simic was chosen because“He’s very hard to describe, and that’s read more
poetry
Raving Loon | August 2nd 2007
Charles Simic, one of my favorite poets, was just named the new American Poet Laureate. Congrats to him. Now, for your reading pleasure, one of my favorite short poems by him: Watermelons by Charles Simic Green BuddhasOn the fruit stand.We eat read more