I'm looking for readings that talk about going on adventures together, or even better, one person taking the lead and showing the other person a lot of adventures.
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posted by small_ruminant
on Jun 14, 2013 -
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What are other life-affirming poems like Derek Walcott's
"Love After Love"? I don't like really New Age-y or nature-oriented poetry, but poetry about food, wine, children, celebrations, etc are all welcome. More examples and context inside.
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posted by Viola
on Mar 1, 2013 -
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Friends are starting a women's group and are looking for a ritual or a reading as a way to begin each meeting. It's a group that includes their teenage daughters so it needs to appeal to both. Any ideas?
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posted by hellochula
on Feb 13, 2013 -
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I need the correct version (punctuation) of Robert Frost's
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening, please.
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posted by kitcat
on Dec 17, 2012 -
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I'm looking for a Lynda Barry comic that ran after 9/11, illustrating Emily Dickinson's Poem #372 which begins, "After great pain, a formal feeling comes."
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posted by chesty_a_arthur
on Oct 17, 2012 -
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I am designing my own holiday cards, with pictures of my family on the front. They are awesome looking so far, and I am really excited. A blank space on the back of the card is what I'm trying to fill; a 5" wide area, about 4-5 lines in 10-12 pt font.
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posted by saragoodman3
on Sep 30, 2012 -
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I've got another "what was that thing from my childhood?" sort of question, and I've combed through Google and Amazon and Abebooks to no avail. A book of short quirky poems for children, probably illustrated. Mid 1970s. Very likely published by Scribners, we had tons of their hardcover books from an uncle who worked there (now deceased, so I can't ask him.) I
thought the title was "It May Be So, It May Be Not", which was also the title of a poem in the book that went, either partially or entirely...
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posted by tomboko
on Jul 14, 2012 -
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What are some rhyming kids' books (4-7 yrs) that are actually enjoyable for the poetry, as well as the story and pictures?
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posted by Bardolph
on Jul 13, 2012 -
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What's the name of the sonnet form that looks like it rhymes, but doesn't rhyme when read out loud?
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posted by Kattullus
on Jun 4, 2012 -
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I'm looking for poetry with a feminist leaning and/or covering a certain set of topics.
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posted by kanata
on Mar 23, 2012 -
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Can someone tell me the author and history of this poem engraved into the bricks on the floor by the inbound train at the Davis Square T stop in Somerville MA?
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posted by shushufindi
on Jan 23, 2012 -
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Do you honestly enjoy reading free verse? Can you explain to me why I should enjoy it, too?
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posted by anonymous
on Jun 24, 2011 -
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QuotationFilter: "Serious over my cereal, I broke one morning my fast, with something-to-read-searching retina ... "
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posted by paduasoy
on Apr 25, 2010 -
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What happened to the wondering minstrels poetry database and how can I find a replacement?
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posted by winna
on Jan 1, 2010 -
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Looking for literary magazines that are well-known for their reviews of newly-published poetry, both chapbooks and full-length books.
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posted by exlotuseater
on Jan 16, 2009 -
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Heroin addict decides to face her habit so she moves to the bucolic Scottish (or Irish, somewhere in the UK at any rate) countryside, meets a (decades-older) blind farmer, falls in love, kicks the habit, eventually has to grieve his death, starts writing luminous poetry, publishes... but what is her name, or the name of her book? (last-minute, last-ditch Xmas-gift-filter)
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posted by Aubergine
on Dec 23, 2008 -
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I am looking for poems, anectotes and short stories online which celebrate dogs and their friendship. This is to cheer my boyfriend, whose family's pet who is very ill.
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posted by Sijeka
on Oct 22, 2008 -
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What are some good poems (or songs) about a beloved person traveling very far away (from the speaker of the poem/song)?
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posted by bubukaba
on Jul 8, 2008 -
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I need some help finding French poems that meet some specific guidelines. I'm currently in my 5th year of high school French. I'm going to a competition where I'll be reciting some memorized poetry, but I haven't had much luck finding anything good to memorize. I need some suggestions of French poems that are *good*, fairly long but not too long, and use moderately advanced vocabulary. I've looked, but I need some guidance from people who know more about this than me.
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posted by MadamM
on Mar 13, 2008 -
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I don't know shit about poetry but have been enjoying Leonard Cohen, Charles Bukowski, Charles Simic, and Robert Creeley for years. (I mostly like works about relationships, romance, love...) Who else should I read? Also, in addition to "practice", how does one get better at reading/writing poetry. Can you also recommend journals / anthologies / web sites / quarterlies?
posted by dobbs
on Feb 8, 2007 -
39 answers
Asking for a friend: I'm looking for poems appropriate for the 4th of July, preferably non-militiristic and not cheesy, that are maybe kind of thought-provoking in a nice, non-threatening sort of way.
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posted by amarynth
on Dec 5, 2006 -
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I want to write a Christmas-themed essay for my book review blog, and I'm trying to come up with some Christmas lit to review. It might be fun, for instance, to gather together a selection of Christmas tripe such as
Santa's Christmas Prayer (link not safe for those who have any literary sensibilities and have just eaten) and go to town on it. Or, at the other end of the spectrum, to write something about Charles Dickens'
A Christmas Carol. Which Christmas novels/stories/poems do you love and loathe? I don't review movies, so text only please...
posted by orange swan
on Nov 28, 2006 -
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Ogden Nash made quite a splash.
And somewhat darker, Dottie Parker.
Silverstein was near divine,
And all revere old Edward Lear.
But now I suffer from a curse:
My thirst for rhyme has grown perverse!
I need a doctor or a nurse;
My problem is becoming worse.
So lest I end up in a hearse,
Please point me t'wards some more light verse!
posted by Robot Johnny
on Jul 13, 2006 -
59 answers
For Christmas I am giving my ex-girlfriend (who i am still very close with) a copy of the PostSecret book. I would like to write something nice to her on the inside cover but I'm coming up blank. Help me out..
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posted by MJaffaDMB
on Dec 24, 2005 -
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I just LOVED part one of the Bob Dylan biopic on PBS last night, "No Direction Home" by Martin Scorsese. There was a poem by Dylan Thomas that was quoted by one of the interviewees, and I think it had to do with reflections, at the end of life, at foregone opportunities. I have tried to find that poem online this morning, but I can't. Can anyone help?
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posted by swlabr
on Sep 27, 2005 -
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I'm looking for good poetry blogs, either blogs of good original poetry or blogs of good commentary on poetry. Do you have any recommendations?
posted by pracowity
on Aug 19, 2005 -
15 answers
Google-Fu has failed me. I seek a searchable archive of Ferdowsi's poetry online. Something where I can type in a few words (either in farsi or in pinglish) and get back the poems that have those words.
Failing that, can anyone find me the full text in farsi of the poem that ends "har aan kas ke daarad hoosh va rai va din/ pas az marg bar man konad aafarin".
posted by BuddhaInABucket
on Dec 14, 2004 -
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"Poetry in Motion" is a program in which the MTA (Manhattan Transit Association) posts short poems in subway trains. A few years ago, they posted an ancient Chinese poem (translated, I think, by a modern American poet). The poem was about an office worker, loaded down with paperwork, looking out the window at distant mountains. I may have some of the details wrong, but the poem had a powerful effect on me. Any ideas of what poem it could be?
posted by grumblebee
on Sep 15, 2004 -
11 answers
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on May 31, 2004 -
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