name association game

BJH-Enjoyed the interview

HJ-Liked both poems of poem hunter


Joanna Baillie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Baillie

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-the-rainbow-2/

JB: Beloved philanthropic dramatist/poet. "To the Rainbow": Beautiful poem especially S7: "And when its yellow lustre smil'd/O'er mountains yet untrod,/Each mother held aloft her child/To bless the bow of God."

Bob Holman... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Holman

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/drea...chinese-poems/

BH-Sensibility and iniciative. The poem implies as much as it tells.
A preciosity: KHONSAY: Poem of Many Tongues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4LVjx8dmnc


Hubert Church
https://www.poemhunter.com/hubert-church/biography/


https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/spring-in-new-zealand/

Khonsay: Very interesting project. Read... http://www.khonsay.com/read/ ... in depth... http://www.khonsay.com/poets/

HC: New Zealander poet - "omnivorous reader"; S1 my favorite from the poem Spring In New Zealand: "Thou wilt come with suddenness, /Like a gull between the waves, /Or a snowdrop that doth press /Through the white shroud on the graves; /Like a love too long withheld, /That at last has over-welled."

Charlotte Turner Smith

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Turner_Smith

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-the-snowdrop/

Khonsay-Glad you poste these links. The video is beautiful, but so one can read the text as a whole unit.
CS- Another incredible woman-And her story reminded me of the Dickens novel´s Little Dorrit and Bleak House.

Sterling Allen Brown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Allen_Brown

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/slim-greer-in-hell/

SAB: Brilliant man... must have been too busy to pursue his doctorate: "but several colleges he attended gave him honorary doctorates". Influenced by "folk-based culture" and music: rural themes... "treated the simple lives of poor, black, country folk with extra poignancy and dignity". The poem you selected written in the vernacular is amusing. "Southern Cop" is just too tragic/poignant and timeless.

B. Traven... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._Traven

http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/p2nhcr

SAB-Usualy one has to have a doctorate to lecture at the university. But he probably was so brilliant that he got honorary degrees.

B. Traven-It seems that his own story is still more interesting than his fiction. I looked him up in German. A certain Hauschild published a biography of 700 pages about Traven after intensive research. Acording to him he was born as Otto Feige in Poland as the son of a worker(1882). He got involved with the worker movement. Later he became an actor under the name of Ret Marut and edited a worker magazine, but was imprisoned suspect of spionage. 1924 he was freed and he went to Tampico (Mexico). In1926 he became a US citizen under the nameTraven Torsvan. He died 1969.

Thomas Edward Brown
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edward_Brown

http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnoteb...s/teb/p695.htm

TEB: "Manx national poet." Incredible poem: an allegory; the rhyme scheme is delightfully stilted.

Beth Gylys

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_Gylys

http://newworldwriting.net/beth-gylys/ (I chose these over others that did not suit my sensibilities.)

BG-modernist touch. Good selection. I found some other poems by her rather crude and not so lyrical.




Gabriela Mistral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Mistral

http://www.poetrycat.com/gabriela-mistral/pine-forest

GM: Nobel prize in literature... Poet, educator; one of her students was Pablo Neruda. "Received a doctor honoris causa from Mills College, Oakland, California" as well (just 12 miles (19 km) NNW from where I attended college for a short time). Enjoyed "Pine Forest", but she was wrong in one respect for my locale: our Pine forests are dying, blighted by the Pine Borer Beetle... we've lost many on our property because the long drought made the pines susceptible to the beetles... whole groves stand dead nearby or are being cut down.

Maoilios Caimbeul

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maoilios_Caimbeul

From: ( http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org...ilios-caimbeul )

http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org...s/rud-thachair

GM-I am sorry for the Californian pines, but there is not knowing which landscape she had in mind, when she wrote the poem.
MC-Loved his way of combining landscape and feelings http://maoilioscaimbeul.co.uk

Charlotte Forten Grimké
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...n-grimkae#poet

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/wordsworth-8/

GM: Yes, GM's Pines are likely an idealization; reminiscent of the Ents of J.R.R. Tolkien as they walk: Perhaps the night will watch closer now that weevil is nigh.
MC: The landscapes do lend themselves to that extra bit of imagery lacking in the mind's eye that helps one with a sense of place. Loved this: "O soft idols of the pillow!
I take my leave of you
joyfully, with doubt, with tears,
because I have been wrong for so long,
for the spendthrift days,
for the warm, deceitful bedcovers.
O, all-seeing heart!
O, deceiving, soiled heart
you are killed with sacrifices,
flayed by the knife of the morning!"
CFG: Abolitionist/Educator: Woman of privilege; pre- and post US Civil War poet. More the classical poet in the poem you offered than I would have imagined, especially after reading Sterling Allen Brown's poems recently.

Gertrude Stein

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Stein

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/res...s/detail/49202

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/res...il/49202#guide

GS-Extraordinary cultural activity. The explanation of the poem you added was very
helpful, for my first impression was, that it might be ironic.


Samuel Garth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Garth

https://becker.wustl.edu/about/news/...ths-dispensary

http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/re...84B45AFC4.html (download necessary)

SG: 17/18th century physician and poet; zealous Whig and wig. His "The Dispensary" has 6-cantos/150+ pgs with stylized "s's" about a dispute between physicians and apothecaries... sideloaded to my Kindle. Another Garth (with Wayne): https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-l.../2847170?snl=1

George Starbuck... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Starbuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9xqZcyfgCg

_{docs up to date :)}

SG-Lol! I was interested in the unusual subject for an epic poem, but didn´t know that it was that long. 150+ pages is a bit much. Link to other Garth didn´t open.
GS-Very original poem very well performed.
Thank you for updating all the docs :)

Sadakichi Hartmann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadakichi_Hartmann

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tanka-18/

https://archive.org/details/driftingflowers00hartgoog