Sitemap - 2023 - A POET'S NOTEBOOK
My Favorite Films of the 21st Century
Partly Because of Your Love of Yogurt
Interview with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Book Preview: Touching the Art
September Text: The Freezer Door
September Poet: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
September theme : DESIRE/FANTASY
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
The Breakthrough of Citizen Kane
Return to Sender: Memory, Betrayal, and Memoir
On the Death of Friends in Childhood
Robert Hayden : "Those Winter Sundays"
Diane Wakoski : "The Father of My Country"
James Baldwin on All That Beauty
Herman Melville : "Moby-Dick, or the Whale"
Etheridge Knight : "No Moon Floods the Memory of That Night"
Emily Brontë : "The night is darkening round me"
James Tate : "Uneasy About the Sounds of Some Night-Wandering Animal"
Alice Notley : "At Night the States"
Antonio Machado : "Last Night As I Was Sleeping"
Fanny Howe : "Night's Philosophy"
Jorge Luis Borges : "The Cyclical Night"
Harryette Mullen : "Sleeping with the Dictionary"
Fernando Pessoa : "Symphony of a Restless Night"
Emily Dickinson : "Wild Nights — Wild Nights!"
Three Poems by Alejandra Pizarnik
Federico García Lorca: "Night of Sleepless Love"
Lakdhas Wikkramasinha : "Middle"
The Marx Brothers : "A Night at the Opera"
July Poem: Sei Shōnagon's Things
June Jordan : "Poem to Take Back the Night"
Raquel Salas Rivera : "if time is queer/and memory is trans/and my hands hurt in the cold/then"
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Alfred Lord Tennyson : ''In the Valley of Cauteretz"
Langston Hughes : "Night Funeral in Harlem"
Thom Gunn : "The Man with Night Sweats"
Alice Notley : "We Thought We Were Our Own"
David Shapiro : "You Are The You"
Chia-Lun Chang : "Vote Your Way to Hell"
John Keats : "This living hand, now warm and capable"
T.S. Eliot : "Fragment of an Agon"
Octavia Butler on Her Birthday
W.B. Yeats : "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"
Carmen Maria Machado : "In the Dream House"
Juliana Huxtable: "Mucus in My Pineal Gland"
Paul Celan : "Your hand full of hours"
Judith Butler On I, We, It, She, He
Joni Mitchell : "A Case of You"
June Poem: "They Dream Only of America"
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha : "Aveugle Voix"
Philip Levine : "They Feed They Lion"
Rainer Marie Rilke : "You who never arrived"
Rachel Zucker's Motherhood Syllabus
Wallace Stevens : "The Auroras of Autumn"
Gerard Manley Hopkins : "The May Magnificat"
Ron Padgett : "The Best Thing I Did"
Gwendolyn Brooks : "the mother"
Interview with Joseph Mulligan: Vallejo's Vision
Maggie Nelson : "The Argonauts"
Walt Whitman - "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"
Cornelius Eady : "To Phillis Wheatley's Mother"
Emily Dickinson : "Nature — the Gentlest mother is,"
Bernadette Mayer : "Eve of Easter"
Simone Weil's Letter to Her Mother
Sunday Evenings Poetry Workshop
May Poem : "The Distant Steps"
Frank Wilderson III : "Civil Rights"
Kim Hyesoon : "Mommy's Expansion"
Alice Notley : "A Baby Is Born Out of a White Owl's Forehead—1972"
Toni Morrison on the creation of "Beloved"
James Tate : "Distance from Loved Ones"
William Shakespeare : Sonnet III
Adrienne Rich's Journals, 1960–1966
Memphis Minnie : "Dirty Mother For You"
Dana Ward : "A Kentucky of Mothers"
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha : "Dictee"
Ross Gay : "A Small Needful Fact"
Sappho's Triangles: Or, the Lyric Third Party
Harryette Mullen : "Haiku Garden"
William Butler Yeats : "The Secret Rose"
Gwendolyn Brooks : "Sick Man Looks at Flowers"
Tullius Laurea : "On the Same"
Ancient Sources: The Slander of Sappho
William Shakespeare : "I know a bank where the wild thyme blows"
"I cannot see what flowers are at my feet"
Audre Lorde : "The Cancer Journals"
Sylvia Plath : "Poppies in October"
Etheridge Knight : "Last Words by 'Slick'"
Jean Genet : "The Thief's Journal"
Wanda Coleman : "My Love Brings Flowers"
Wallflower, Wallflower: On the Anti-Social Origins of the Queer Lyric
John Ashbery : "What is Poetry?"
Join me on Notes for a Daily Writing Prompt
Consider the Lilies of the Field
Jericho Brown : "The Water Lilies"
Sei Shōnagon : "Flowering Trees"
You Burn Me: The Art of Translating Sappho
Bernadette Mayer : "Anthology"
William Carlos Williams : "Queen Anne's Lace"
June Jordan : "Queen Anne's Lace"
Algernon Charles Swinburne : "A Leave-Taking"
Eileen Myles : "To My Flowers"
François Villon : "Arbor Amoris"
The Oldest War Poem in the World
Allen Ginsberg : "Death on All Fronts"
The First Casualty in War is Truth
C.P. Cavafy : "Waiting for the Barbarians"
A.E. Housman : "Soldiers from the wars returning"
30 Poetry Prompts Inspired by Alice Notley
Claudia Rankine : "Don't Let Me Be Lonely"
Mahmoud Darwish : "The War Will End"
Two Translations from Ovid's Amores
Alice Notley : "White Phosphorus" (excerpts)
Split Feminism, 1988, Homer's Art, Owls
Wilfred Owen : "Strange Meeting"
César Vallejo : "Trilce, XXIX"
"Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation"
Wisława Szymborska : "The End and the Beginning"
Alice Notley's Poetics of Space
June Jordan Speaks Out Against the Gulf War
Valzhyna Mort : "Scene from Medieval War"
W.B. Yeats : "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death"
Join the Alice Notley Study Group
Charles Péguy : "Blessed are..."
Etel Adnan : "To Be in a Time of War"
Virginia Woolf's On or About December 1910
William Shakespeare : Sonnet 33
Anne Waldman on Becoming a Poet
Gwendolyn Brooks : "the rites for Cousin Vit"
Teaching Diary #1 Juxtaposition
John Yau studies with John Ashbery
Translating Meng Hao-jan's "Autumn Begins"
May Swenson : "Cardinal Ideograms"
Happy Birthday Toni Morrison & Audre Lorde
Frank O'Hara and Jack Kerouac walk into a bar
Rainer Marie Rilke : "Washing the Corpse"
Octavia Butler : "I shall be a bestselling writer."