National Poetry Month: Day 10. “Gulls at Todd’s Point” by Annie Finch
Gulls at Todd’s Point
Shivering, knowing how lines of the tide
use seaweed, and sea-drift, and sea-touch (and bone)
to etch with, I wait to be marked on the sand
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Hi everyone. I sort of took today off along with everyone else here at The Rumpus, but there was a lot of good stuff in the po-world this week and I wanted to pass it along.
For starters, Memorious launched their blog today, and their first official post is “what books we’re looking forward to in 2010,” which is a wonderful change from all the retrospective lists that pop up this time of year.
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A tale of a poetry reading, or maybe the word “cock” is inherently funny.
Annie Finch tells you everything you need to know about the sonnet.
Who was in Best American Poetry 2009? The answer probably won’t surprise you.
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Congratulations to Carole Ann Duffy, Britain’s new Poet Laureate, and both the first woman and the first openly gay person to hold the position.
Mayday Magazine hosts a roundtable on the need for the negative review in poetry.
Joshua Corey wins the Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press.
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