name association game

JFvE: "Prussian poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, translator, and anthologist... one of the major writers and critics of Romanticism... the most popular German poet set into music." His legacy endures to this day. Enjoyed his poem Wünschelrute, or Wishing Well, shown on Wikipedia. I was reading a quote earlier today that accompanies his poem nicely:

Quote:

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Wishing Wand

A song's asleep in everything
And it dreams on and on,
And the world begins to sing,
Once you hit the magic tone.

- Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorf

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To love a person is to learn
the song that is in their heart
and to sing it to them when
they have forgotten.

- Arne Garborg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_Garborg

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Night Of The Moon: a nice poem that suffers from translation.


Fiona Sampson

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

https://thekindlingjournal.org/fiona-sampson/

JFvE- More Moon Night
http://www.fullmoon.info/en/blog/the...chendorff.html (A better translation perhaps but didn´t like the walking breeze)

FS-No date of birth of this very active poet. Both poems give me a sensation of someone striving upwards.


Sophie Cabot Black
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ie-cabot-black

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...rd-left-behind

JFvE: the new translation is more poetic... I agree with your assessment about the walking breeze. FS: Google states born Born: 1963 (no month nor day), London, United Kingdom - which is younger than I anticipated. SCB: New England/New York poet. I liked Bird Left Behind and, with apologies to the 3-poets, edited and mashed up the similar voices into one theme:

Quote:

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Three Voices on a Theme

S1

A song's asleep in everything
And it dreams on and on,
And the world begins to sing,
Once you hit the magic tone.

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S2

To love a being is to learn
the song that is in their heart
and to sing it to them tenderly
when they have forgotten.

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S3

A bird came back to find her kind
And none found took herself up
Into a tree and began to sing
the song she wanted sung back to her.

7/11/2017

- S1: Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorf (Wishing Wand) / S2: Arne Garborg (edited quote) / S3: Sophie Cabot Black (edited the last 4-verses of Bird Left Behind )

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Bernadette Mayer

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

https://jacket2.org/poems/day

Loved the combination of the three poems. A language question to AG: for me as a non native it´s strange the use of pronouns in the plural with a noun in the singular. Yet I have seen it in several texts of late and now again in the poem.

BM-German American background. Loved the poem formed like a tree.

Meg Sefton
"Margaret's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Flash Frontier, Writing in a Woman's Voice, Blue Fifth Review, Bizarro Central, Honey Pot, Alyss, Best New Writing, The Dos Passos Review, Ginosko Literary Journal, Still Crazy, Asylum Ink, Quail Bell, Danse Macabre, Dark Sky Magazine, Chrome Baby, The Strange Edge, Beakful, Serving House Journal, Corium Magazine, Double Room, Emprise Review, Connotation Press, Atticus Review, Apocrypha and Abstractions, DecomP, The Quarterly Conversation, Get Lit: Round One Flash Fiction, A-minor magazine, Wufniks, 791 MENU, Trainwrite, State of Imagination, Pure Slush, Dark Chaos, Blink Ink, 52/250, Kaffe at Katmandu, Relief, and Colored Chalk.

She received her BA in Literature from Wake Forest University, her MA in Adult Education from Denver Seminary, and her MFA in Fiction from Seattle Pacific University. She lives in central Florida with her son and little white dog "Annie," a Coton de Tulear."

liquid asylum
https://brokenwriterblog.wordpress.com

MS: Beautiful website/blog; a little poetry but mostly well done short stories / flash fiction

• "I started a new blog for women who want to speak their mind, anonymously, about anything."...

• "A pen is better than a stick or a sword and frees the weave of my heart. At some point, every friend is an enemy, but even if my life is counted for nothing, a pen is more loyal."

... Me, I'd trust Parker with anything.

• "It has been well known for quite some time that on the outskirts of Munir, a city that could well be considered a test city for a heretofore untapped source of fuel, the bodies of the useless women currently are housed."

... Nice premise.

Stephen Vincent Benét

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

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...net/poems/3017

SVB- I love his story "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and I also liked the poem very much. Modest but not at all minor.



Bertrand de Born

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

http://deremilitari.org/2014/03/two-...rtran-de-born/

BdB: 1140~1215 a French Baron poet who was "a master of the sirventes"... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirventes . Knights, castles, maces, swords, battle depicted in poetry.

Berlie Doherty

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

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/ghost-garden

BdB- Often sounds parodical to me as he emphasizes the horrors of war. Should like to know your opinion as your sensibility for poetry is more accurate then mine.
BD-Social themes. Gap of time between her childhood literature and her adult production. Enjoyed her delicate poem.


Dannie Abse
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/dannie-abse

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/epithalamion

BdB: His poetry reflects the reality of his times having to personally deal with usurpers, class systems, politics, and war... . DA: Welsh physician and poet: "Considered one of the most important Welsh writers of the past century"... "In addition to being a poet and editor, he was a successful memoirist, essayist, playwright, and novelist.". Influenced by Dylan Thomas and Rilke early on. The poem shares the title of one by Edmund Spenser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser in 1594 to his bride Elizabeth Boyle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epithalamion_(poem) the word having an ancient etymology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epithalamium. To me the poem is more melancholy than I would have imagined of such a joyous time as he includes the "living and the dead" throughout.

Angela Morgan

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

https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/po...-angela-morgan

DA- Interesting observation about the dialogue with Spenser's poem. Here is it: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-56d22497d00d4 I don´t see the reference to the "living and the dead" as so melancholic. He is making a homage and a direct reference to Spencer's poem and continuing his tradition.

AM-A cute poem. "Her career as a writer started as a journalist for the Chicago and New York newspapers before World War I. Much of her time was spent visiting courts, jails, and other places where suffering was present in order to cover her news stories. It was this experience that helped her write about social issues in future poems."https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/in-spite-of-war-by-angela-morgan


Mark McWatt

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

http://signifyinguyana.typepad.com/s...k-mcwatt-.html

DA: Ah, I see. AM: "In Spite of War"... Quirky war poem. MMcW: "Guyanese writer and educator." Enjoyed the fishing analogy for the poetic process.

Mary Karr

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

https://alisonmcghee.com/2016/03/26/...y-mary-karr-2/

MK- Poem: Aai!!


Kevin Crossley Holland
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/ke...ossley-holland

http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...y-staithe.html

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/grain-things

KCH: English poet; "Crossley-Holland's language is also steeped in Anglo-Saxon influences, particularly evident in the rich patterns of alliteration and assonance which recall the strongly accented rhythms of the period's poetry. Above all, Crossley-Holland's preference for a pared-down vocabulary connects his work to the early origins of the English language: as he says in 'Translation Workshop: Grit and Blood', "I want earth-words/tough roots". His poem Dusk, Burnham Overy Staithe simple yet moving. The Grain of Things: "ruckled pomegranate" - very descriptive; a delightful poem. I would have chosen more but the website discourages copying for pasting.

Hazel Hall

(the "Emily Dickinson of Oregon")

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

http://alexsheremet.com/review-3-poems-hazel-hall/

KCH-One more poem: http://www.kevincrossley-holland.com/poetry.html
HH-"Her poems are usually too ‘small,’ both in subject and accomplishment, to ever be called visionary, in the deeper sense, but they do have a kind of small-v vision, a way of looking at the world that, when compounded over time, is uniquely Hall’s." She has the "miopic vision" which Brazilian critic Gilda de Mello e Souza described as the typical feminine perspective of the women that were confined to the four walls of her home, before they started to work outside their homes. HH was confined to her home because of her paralysis. Her associations are certainly original. Personified stitches:"Stitches running up a seam/Are not like feet beside a stream,/And the thread that swishes after/Is not at all like human laughter." A woman dissolving into rain? "What stirred in my pulse now sighs/In the long sigh of the rain;/What was restlessness will rain/Against some woman’s windowpane/And make a woman close her eyes."

Helen Dunmore

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/helen-dunmore

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/city-lilacs

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ontentId=42214

KCH: SEA DEW... enchanting in its simplicity; a place I'd like to be. HH: Very nice analysis and review. HD: Recently passed on (June 5, 2017) since last we visited her in December of last year. https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...-birdcage-walk (Litany - an accurate portrayal of the aged; a not so tedious list. City lilac - I read this eerily to Enya's "Sancta Maria"; she had a good intuition of the hidden city.

Deborah Digges

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

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...esper-sparrows

http://www.raintaxi.com/setting-fire...eborah-digges/

Beautiful video (Sancta Maria). HD- Unvoluntary revisitation, though no much harm done as the poems probably are different. Good article with beautiful pictures of her. Seems she is most remembered as a novelist.

DD-Her poetry combines harsher and softer images. Influence of her father´s profession (Thought first she was a doctor herself the hospital images are very strong)Enjoyed the review.

Denis Glover
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Glover

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/child

http://nzpoems.blogspot.com.br/2011/...is-glover.html

DG: New Zealand poet and publisher. For a Child is a sweet little poem.The refrain "Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle" of the poem "The Magpies" (1941), imitating the sound of the Australian magpie, is one of the most famous lines in New Zealand poetry.

Georgia Douglas Johnson

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

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...17/common-dust

GDJ-Loved her poems. Simple and to the point.

Quote:

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The Heart of a Woman
Georgia Douglas Johnson
The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn,
As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on,
Afar o’er life’s turrets and vales does it roam
In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home.
The heart of a woman falls back with the night,
And enters some alien cage in its plight,
And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars
While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.

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Jonathan Edwards
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/jonathan-edwards

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/nun-bicycle

https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/...s#.WW6-z6n790x

JE: Welsh poet; "possesses an ear for pop culture and a talent for striking, surprising imagery, which often occur together against the unassuming backdrops of ‘everyday life’ – the supermarkets, cafes and airport vistas of 21st century Britain – and make comparisons with poets like Simon Armitage or Billy Collins inevitable and justified." Nun on a Bicycle: L3 and L16 in opposition, an otherwise light poem. The 5-poems offered next are of the everyday mixed with humor and malice.

Edwina Hume Fallis

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

http://www.daughterofhope.com/2012/0...na-fallis.html

EHF-Teacher and seller of toys.

Fay Zwicky
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/fay-zwicky

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/witnesses

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ks-forgiveness

FZ: "was widely acknowledged and awarded as one of Australia's most important and exhilarating poets". The Witnesses is a fun take on Magpies. The Poet Asks Forgiveness, an apology for unwritten poems... delightful: "forgive me the colours they might have worn"

zakia henderson brown

https://www.centerforthehumanities.o...enderson-brown

http://nationalpoetrymonth.tumblr.co...enderson-brown

ZHB-Contemporaneous poet, hospital recollections, the frailties of being alive.


Bernadine Evaristo
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/bernardine-evaristo

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/ep...ro-brazil-1995

BE: English poet; "Her writing is characterised by experimentation, ranging in genre through poetry, fiction, verse-novels, drama and literary criticism, and typically challenges the myths around various Afro-diasporic histories and identities." Epilogue - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1995 is a wonderful prose poem of searching for her roots and identity; I can feel her yearning.

Eva Gore Booth

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/eva-gore-booth

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-56d226720a908

EGB- Irish poet, woman rights activist, influence of Yeats."Largely associated with the Celtic revival that swept over her homeland at the turn of the twentieth century[...]In addition to being a writer, Gore-Booth was also a political activist." The Dreamer- Beautiful and terrible.


Billy Childish
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/billy-childish

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/i-...ge-hero-hunger

https://www.artsy.net/artist/billy-childish

BC: English poet and artist; "his work is frequently at odds with the concerns of the mainstream literary and art worlds." I AM THE STRANGE HERO OF HUNGER an incredible poem. His paintings are alive in ways that almost defy description.

Charlotte Mew

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/charlotte-mew

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-the-fields/

CM-A very sad life. Her losses reverberate in her poems, which transmit a strong sense of unfulfilled yearnings.



Moniza Alvi
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/moniza-alvi

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-wo...nting-by-miro/

MA: "Deryn Rees-Jones ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deryn_Rees-Jones ) has said that '[m]uch of Alvi's work engages with a surreal or fantastical world of fractured and partially recovered identity..." which is exemplified in her poem Would Like To Be A Dot In A Painting By Miro ... an amusing and delightful poem; ref: Joan Miró - http://www.joan-miro.net/joan-miro-paintings.jsp

A. A. Milne

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._A._Milne

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-mirror-64/

Just now discovered that A. A. stand for Alan Alexander and that the bear stories were inspired by his son, Christopher Robin. Old memories: https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tra-la-la-tra-la-la/. Cute poem

Mandy Coe
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/mandy-coe

http://www.mandycoe.com/poems_a.htm

AAM: lol, "b'bibbiddy babble"/tS. MC: "Mandy Coe’s poems are characterised by their energetic delight in language." I enjoyed The Weight of Cows the best of the selection.

Corinna

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

http://korinna-kore.blogspot.com/200...nas-poems.html

http://www.casa-kvsa.org.za/1995/AC38-03-Henderson.pdf

C-Interesting find. One of the rare female Greek poets, wrote about 300?Few surviving fragments, mythological themes. Henderson:"What we can[...] extract from the fragments concerning her views on poetry adds a few more pieces to the complex and incomplete puzzle of Greek lyric poetry. * "

Christine de Luca
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/christine-de-luca

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/meeting-vulcan

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-little-nap-rap/

CdL: Shetland poet whose poetry has been set to music. Meeting Vulcan: an homage perhaps to a statue of Vulcan. A Little Nap Rap: a delightful rap rhyme.

Lorine Niedecker

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

http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/niedecker/poems.html

LN-Only American woman poet associated with Objectivism. Her poems often read like realistic prose in verse.
Poet's Work[.Each verse has the form of a typewriter.

Nigel Mc Loughlin
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/nigel-mcloughlin

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/catching-fire

NMcL: "McLoughlin’s voice is a delight, rich with roots that stretch deeply into the poet’s sense of home." "For him, the writing process is one of close attunement to the emotional effect of the line in relation to content, sometimes working these elements disparately to create unexpected effects." Catching Fire is an interesting contrast of perception. Also enjoyed Stones http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/stones

Madeline Gleason

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

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ontentId=22733

MG-Poet and dramatist. Enjoyed the nostalgic images of "The surviving mirror".

Gillian Clarke

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/gillian-clarke

http://www.gillianclarke.co.uk/gc201...fficult-birth/
and selection

GC: Contemporary Welsh poet who became the 3rd National Poet of Wales. The poem A Difficult Birth is 3-stories entwined to form the poem (see Notes… on poem page).

Conrad Aiken

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

"... largely responsible for establishing Emily Dickinson's reputation as a major American poet."

http://markandrewholmes.com/theroom.html

CA-Tragic loss of his parents. Influences: psychoanalysis, Whitman and George Santayana."The room"- a powerfull poem that somehow is related to surviving the tragedy of his childhood.

Anne Brontë

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anne-bronte

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-consolation-4/

AB: Youngest of the Brontë sisters; a poet and novelist of renown. For me the meter of The Consolation belies the hopefulness and optimism of the protagonist.

Brent Fisk

http://www.bgdailynews.com/community...31d157296.html

http://www.autumnskypoetry.com/number12/Brent_Fisk.html

AB-I agree with you, it´s a heavy meter. The other poems from her I read were still sadder.
BF-Academic, original points of view, sense of humor. Liked his comment on the recurrence of the basic plot in Jane Austen:"I tried to read three Jane Austen novels at once and for several days was convinced Elizabeth Bennet had 12 unmarried sisters." Enjoyed the tenderness and the humor of "A bee in the car".


Fleur Adcock

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/fleur-adcock


https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-...d-an-orange-2/

FA: Poet, New Zealand born, England raised; "The influence of Fleur Adcock's migratory childhood can be traced in her work's exploration of identity." "Her poems often bring to light women's lives that might otherwise be marginalised or forgotten". The Man Who X-Rayed An Orange... a poem about madness ? Disappointed that there was no exploration regarding a rhyme word for orange.

Alcman

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

http://www.blackcatpoems.com/a/slumb...mountains.html

A-Greek lyric choral poet(7th century BC).Maybe an emancipated slave, that composed in the dialect of Sparta. Judging from the translated fragments a very sensual poetry. Celebration of life and nature.

Alexander Blok
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Blok

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/flam...f-the-mystery/