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5 Poems by James Wright
October 21, 2010
James Wright 1927-1980
Neither of James Wright’s parents attended school beyond the eighth grade. His father endured lay offs during the 50 years he worked at the Hazel-Atlas glass factory. His mother worked in a laundry after leaving school at fourteen.
James Arlington Wright was born in the steel town of Martins Ferry, Ohio December 13, 1927. Bordering West Virginia and Pennsylvania, this area of the Ohio River Valley is highly industrialized. Wright’s high school graduation was delayed a year after he suffered a nervous breakdown when he was sixteen. He served in the Army in Japan during WWII, then attended Kenyon College on the GI Bill where studied under John Crowe Ransom. Ransom’s emphasis on traditional meter and prosody influenced Wright’s early work.
After graduating with honors, he studied at University of Vienna on a Fulbright Fellowship. He then returned to the US to earn master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of Washington where he studied with Theodore Roethke and Stanley Kunitz.
The hardships Wright witnessed growing up never left him. Donald Hall met James Wright in 1954 and writes in the introduction to Above The River, the Complete Poems, that Wright suffered from a bipolar mood disorder and that he used alcohol as a self medication. Hall recalls an August visit during which Wright was intensely nervous. He says he spoke without stopping and his good nature eventually turned blackduring the visit when Wright made a speech about how he would never go back to the mills, no matter how much they tried to push him there….
Wright champions society’s downtrodden in his work. In The Minneapolis Poem” he gives voice to
native Americans ,African-Americans, the homeless, and homosexuals.
Though recognized with awards including a Pulitzer prize, he acknowledged his own weaknesses. In a Paris Review interview he said of his work that “My family background is partly Irish, and this means many things, but linguistically it means that it is too easy for me to talk sometimes. He thought he could be glib.
In the Partisan Review, Paul Zweig described Wright’s work as …A style of pastoral surrealism, built around strong images and a simple spoken rhetoric. Wright’s art lay not in complex grammar, but in a stark structure of perceptions which became their own statement.”
A chronic sore throat was finally diagnosed as tongue cancer in 1979. James Wright died March 25, 1980.
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Webliography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wright_(poet)
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/73
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/12
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=7564
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/j_wright/bio.htm
Interview:
http://www.theparisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/3839
Bibliography:
Above the River, the Complete poems James Wright, Farrer, Straus and Giroux, (New York, NY), 1990
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Image Credits:
Moon and trees image:
Prateek Karandikar Wikimedia.org
Bear video: public domain
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Girl Coming in for a Landing by April Halprin Wayland
August 30, 2010
book trailer — a perfect award-winning fast-paced summer read for teens and tweens~ One girl. One school year. All poems. From friends to first dates, school dances to family fights, this inspiring book captures the highs and lows of teen life with refreshing honesty and humor. Funny, poignant, and completely real, GIRL COMING IN FOR A LANDING is just like high school: impossible to walk away from unchanged.
It’s a novel in poems illustrated by Elaine Clayton from Knopf…
* winner of the Myra Cohn Livingston Award for poetry
* named by the College of Education and the University Libraries at Penn State and the Pennsylvania Center for the Book a Lee Bennett Hopkins Honor Book for Children’s Poetry
* a Junior Library Guild Selection
* nominated as one of the Best Books For Young Adults by the American Library Association
* nominated for the ALA’s 2003 Quick Picks for Reluctant
Readers
* #2 Kidzworld’s Top Reads
* and now a Dell Yearling paperback
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Special Poetry Slam – Life In Drag
August 18, 2010
Special Holloway Series in Poetry – Alan Bernheimer
July 23, 2010
Alan Bernheimers works include Café Isotope (1980), State Lounge (1981), the recently digitized 1981 play Particle Arms, Billionesque (1999), and Cloud Eight (with Kit Robinson, 1999). He has a new book, Spoonlight Institute, out with Adventures in poetry.
Jane Gregory grew up in Tucson, Arizona. She graduated from Vassar College in 2004 and then lived and worked in New York for a while before going on to Iowa, where she received her MFA from the Writers Workshop last spring. Her poems have appeared in Absent Magazine, Cannibal, The Hat, Soft Targets, Typo, and elsewhere. A chapbook was put out by Cannibal Books in 2007.
http://holloway.english.berkeley.edu/
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Jamaican Poetry – The Damp in Things by MIllicent Graham Promo Trailer
July 9, 2010
A visual complement to the book of poetry – The Damp in Things by Millicent A A Graham
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The Holloway Series in Poetry – Brenda Hillman
April 22, 2010
BRENDA HILLMAN, a peace activist and one of Poets & Writers magazines 50 of the Most Inspiring Authors in the World, is the author of eight books of poetry; her most recent book, Practical Water (2009) is the third part of a quartet on Earth, air, water, and fire. She has received the William Carlos Williams Prize, and Fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation, and she is Olivia Filippi Professor of poetry at St. Marys College, where she teaches in the undergraduate and MFA programs.
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Parkour
April 16, 2010
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Firstly thankyou for all the wonderful feedback so far!
HD download:
http://www.3run.co.uk/Movies/poetry_in_motion.mov
Hope you enjoy.
The shots were recorded in Portsmouth, Basingstoke and London, UK.
This is an artistic Parkour piece, titled Poetry In Motion.
Directed and edited by Sam Parham – www.3run.co.uk
Filming by: Chase Armitage, Nathan Barris & Jay Pearson.
I sincerely hope you all enjoy, and please leave some feedback.
Peace
Music license permitted by: Conor Corrigan (Koriigahn)
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/191989
- We stand now.
Myspace link: http://www.myspace.com/conorcorriganmusic
Part of the, Parkour, Free Running, Tricking and Acrobatics performance – 3RUN Action team. for more visit www.3run.co.uk!
Parkour – Poetry in Motion Text:
I walk on the Red Carpet of the Universe
To Converse between time and space,
Looking for a place to be free, a place that I see, what separates you from me.
I overcome my fears, facing them head on,
against every challenge I try to stay strong,
Sprinting I leap, hit the wall as I flow,
Then vault forwards to the ground below,
Leaping from rail to rail, the presents irrelevant,
So my eyes focus on the future, and determine the environment.
I hit the path with graceful pace,
beast the rail sweat dripping from my face.
I hit the bollard, and fly through the air,
an explosion of movement, wind streaming through my hair.
My surroundings are a blur, so my senses must sharpen,
I tunnel my vision, everything else begins to darken.
As I hit the landing, my feet must compensate,
Weight distributions instinctive, theres no need to hesitate.
My breathes are deep, and my heart pumps fast,
Flushing my body with blood and oxygen to last.
My muscles contract as they take the strain,
Bounding over walls, this is how I train.
To become Agile, Flexible, Fast and Strong,
Worthy of the 3RUN family, for which I belong.
While the average guy lives an elaborate lie,
The fear in my eyes will never fortify.
The adrenaline in my bloodstream is evident,
And all my other feelings are rendered irrelevant.
As I make my next movement of which Ive planned in advance
I mime the precision leaving nothing to chance
Tepid and unwavering my balance commands me
A hero of stature as Im expressing to be
Something and someone much more than the norm
Im a cannon exploding the eye of the storm
Stained walls appear hear where others marks have been made
A map of movement like an atlas has now been outlaid
I can use these footprints to inspire me to improve
To spur me on, on my quest to move.
Its a sign that I too belong to this place
After all Ive left marks you can still see my trace.
My face contorts as I brace to leap,
energy flows through my body from my head to my feet.
I drive my body off of the wall,
and float for that moment, time seems to stall.
Coming back to my senses, my feet meet the ground,
I tuck to a roll barely making a sound.
I round a corner, coming out in a stride,
Forcing myself on, leaping with pride.
I wanna stop just for a second, say it straight from the heart,
Life is a lesson, from the day you are born to the day we depart.
Family is the most important thing, so hold them near,
Life is too short to live it in fear.
Be positive, helpful, kind and curtious,
Stress is of the devil, stay calm, never furious.
Such things arent important, they cannot impress,
How many people you bless, is how you truly measure success.
My skin may tare and the flesh may be seen
But the adrenaline pumps strong and my muscles stay keen
Fibres explode with every contraction
This is my life, the fatal attraction
No questioning the universe, this is just part of my plot,
And as George Bernard Shaw said:
You see things and say why? But dream things that never were and say why not?
Afterall, Pain is temporary, Quitting is forever.
Lance Armstrong told me this, As far as Im concerned Never say Never
My training is my life, it is my catlyst,
Its why I work hard and tend to persist.
I hit the wall where graffiti enthrals the once bare
Like it I hit it with intensive art flair
The art of the movement as prominent as the wall
Started out the same as nothing at all
It strange how such beauty could not once be there
I feel blessed in myself that I have something too share
I carve my own path like huskies in the snow
Leading a track for others to follow
Although the path I lead may not just be mine
I encourage others to find there own in due time
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PoemsOfTheSoul – Time (Love poem)
April 7, 2010
I’ve already posted this poem but I wanted to post it with me reading it out. The photos are random photos I took on a walk one day… totally unrelated but they were kind of pretty :S lol.
Anyway I hope you like it.
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Percy Shelley The Movie Part 1
April 5, 2010
Part 1 of the super savage blockbuster that has critics and fans of romantic poetry a’tingle with anticipation.
Duration : 0:7:9
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Love poem
P.S: It’s my first time to write a love poem and I’m not a poetry either, so don’t mind if it’s not a really good poem at all=) Hope you guys like this and enjoy the pictures and the song as well B-) Please comment me, and I’ll learn from my mistakes;P
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