• Poetry

    FreeVerse: "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath

    by  • 05/26/2010 • Poetry • 8 Comments

    Hosted by Cara at Ooh…Books! I’ve been taking a little break from FreeVerse to recharge my poetic batteries and find some new poems that make me say “Hmmmmmm.” But on Monday I spontaneously decided to make it Steig Larsson Week on my blog to celebrate the release of the final book in the Millennium...

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    FreeVerse: Continuing to Celebrate "Amateur" Poets

    by  • 04/28/2010 • Poetry • 6 Comments

    Hosted by Cara at Ooh…Books! As you probably already know, April is National Poetry Month. Serena over at Savvy Verse & Wit has organized an amazing poetry blog tour that will be going on all month. Since Serena pretty much has so many of the “professional” or “published” poets covered, I thought I’d use...

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    FreeVerse: Celebrating More "Amateur" Poets

    by  • 04/21/2010 • Poetry • 11 Comments

    Hosted by Cara at Ooh…Books! As you probably already know, April is National Poetry Month. Serena over at Savvy Verse & Wit has organized an amazing poetry blog tour that will be going on all month. Since Serena pretty much has so many of the “professional” or “published” poets covered, I thought I’d use...

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    FreeVerse: Celebrating "Amateur" Poets

    by  • 04/13/2010 • Poetry • 12 Comments

    Hosted by Cara at Ooh…Books! As you probably already know, April is National Poetry Month. Serena over at Savvy Verse & Wit has organized an amazing poetry blog tour that will be going on all month. Since Serena pretty much has so many of the “professional” or “published” poets covered, I thought I’d use...

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    FreeVerse: "I Am Not One of The"

    by  • 03/24/2010 • Poetry • 5 Comments

    Hosted by Cara at Ooh…Books! This week, I’m sharing a poem Cheryl Marie Wade, who is a playwright, poet, performer, video-maker, and disability rights activist. This poem was one of those that I found in the zine I used to publish. When I came across it again, I was blown away by its vibrancy...

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    FreeVerse: Welcoming Spring

    by  • 03/17/2010 • Poetry • 8 Comments

    Hosted by Cara at Ooh…Books! This year the official first day of spring is Saturday, March 20th. One of my traditions with my dad was to listen to Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana on the first day of spring each year. When I lived at home, we would listen to it together. After I left...

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    FreeVerse: "Daystar" by Rita Dove

    by  • 03/03/2010 • Poetry • 13 Comments

    Hosted by Cara at Ooh…Books! In college, I took a class called African-American Poetry. It was a fantastic class, and the highlight was having Rita Dove come in to read her poems to the class. Her book of poems, Thomas and Beulah, won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. It was a thrill to...

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    FreeVerse: "Snow Day" by Billy Collins

    by  • 02/10/2010 • Poetry • 14 Comments

    Hosted by Cara at Ooh…Books! Today I thought it was only fitting to share this poem, entitled “Snow Day,” as we suffer yet another snowy day here. It is funny how when you are a kid, snow days are the greatest thing in the world. Now that I’m (technically) a grown-up, I hate snow...

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    FreeVerse: A Very Scary Poem

    by  • 01/27/2010 • Poetry • 13 Comments

    Hosted by Cara at Ooh…Books! Today I want to share with you what I consider to be the scariest poem in the world. I remember reading this poem for the first time in high school, and it chilled me to the core. I didn’t fully understand everything in it (and probably still don’t), but...

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    FreeVerse: Sadie and Maud by Gwendolyn Brooks

    by  • 01/06/2010 • Poetry • 9 Comments

    Hosted by Cara over at Ooh Books During college, I took a wonderful course in African American Poetry. It introduced me to such poets as Langston Hughes, Rita Dove, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Nikki Giovanni and Gwendolyn Brooks. Today, I thought I’d share one of the poems I loved when I first read it....

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    FreeVerse: Poems From My Wedding

    by  • 12/16/2009 • Poetry • 1 Comment

    Hosted by Cara over at Ooh Books Last week, I shared some poems about marriage. In that post, I mentioned that I was madly looking for the poems that were read at my own wedding, and I’m happy to report that I finally found them! I don’t know the author or title of the...

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    FreeVerse: Poems About Marriage

    by  • 12/09/2009 • Poetry • 0 Comments

    Hosted by Cara over at Ooh Books Last week, one of the poems I shared was a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning that my parents had read at their wedding. This week, I was going to share the poems that Mr. Jenners and I had read at our wedding, but I couldn’t find them...

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    FreeVerse: Poems For My Dad

    by  • 12/02/2009 • Poetry • 0 Comments

    Hosted by Cara over at Ooh Books, this meme is all about sharing poetry. The “rules” are very flexible — simply share a poem (or poems) that you like, have written or want to talk about and then link up on Wednesdays over at Cara’s blog. She is so flexible that you don’t even...

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