The queens love to love you--but it didn't always start out like that. Stick around for our game: "Pulitzer Prize Winning Titles from an Alternate Universe."
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
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If you have library access, Ena Jung's 2015 article "The Breath of Emily Dickinson's Dashes" is worth the time.
Watch Bill Murray read two of the more obscure Wallace Stevens poems here.
Watch Jonathan Pryce read Wordsworth's "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge"
Watch James Wright read some of his iconic poems, including "A Blessing" (at 33:15--he calls the poem "a description") here.
John Ashbery's Flow Chart is a book-length poem comprising 4,794 lines, divided into six numbered chapters, each of which is further divided into sections or verse-paragraphs, varying in number from seven to 42. The sections vary in length from one or two lines, to seven pages. It includes at least one double-sestina (and one of them references oral sex between men).
Hear Linda Gregg read and be interviewed in 1986 (~25 mins).
Here's a quick book-trailer of C. Dale Young's The Halo, including a reading of one of the poems by Young.
Listen to a few minutes of Archibald Macleish's Conquistador here.
We can recommend Peter Maber's 2008 article about John Berryman's Dream Songs, "'So-called black': Reassessing John Berryman’s Blackface Minstrelsy" as a good starting place to think about the racism in that book.
Jazz Age poet, translator, and Poetry editor George Dillon was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1906.
At 24, Audrey Wurdemann is the youngest person to win the poetry Pulitzer (for Bright Ambush). Read a few poems here.
Read Robert P. Tristram Coffin's poem "Messages"
Here's Mark Strand reading "Sleeping With One Eye Open"
We reference Stevie Nicks (a Gemini) singing her iconic song "Landslide"
Winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, Robert Lowell’s The Dolphin controversially included letters from Elizabeth Hardwick (Lowell's former wife). The letters were sent to him after he left her for the English socialite and writer Caroline Blackwood. He was warned by many, among them Elizabeth Bishop, that “art just isn’t worth that much.”