Today is the 100th birthday of beat poet #AllenGinsberg
Browse our collection to explore his writings like the famous "Howl", as well as biographical material & criticism of his writings & their relation to other arts (esp #photography & film)

#BOTD #AmericanPoetry #AmericanLiterature #Poetry

Song of the Open Road

You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here,
I believe that much unseen is also here.

…

Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten, and the book on the shelf unopen’d!
Let the tools remain in the workshop! let the money remain unearn’d!
Let the school stand! mind not the cry of the teacher!
Let the preacher preach in his pulpit! let the lawyer plead in the court, and the judge expound the law.

Camerado, I give you my hand!
I give you my love more precious than money,
I give you myself before preaching or law;
Will you give me yourself? will you come travel with me?
Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?

Full poem here:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48859/song-of-the-open-road

"Il y a tout autour de nous,
ce pays
du feu originel "

« Amérique primitive » de Mary Oliver est le premier volume d’une nouvelle collection qui proposera des recueils de poèmes, de poètes étrangers ou francophones qui s’inscrivent dans le programme éditorial de Poesis autour du thème « Habiter poétiquement le monde ». Ce recueil, Prix Pulitzer de poésie en 1983, traduit pour la première fois en français par Cécile A.Holdban et Thierry Gillybœuf.

#maryoliver
#americanprimitive
#americanpoetry
#littératureaméricaine
#Parution

Today would have been the 100th birthday of Frank O'Hara!
Celebrate the famous New York poet by reading some of his texts - we have a large selection of books by & on him in our collection!

#FrankOHara #QueerWriters #AmericanPoetry #AmericanLiterature #Poetry #BOTD #OTD

Every time I go back to the poetry of William Wantling, I get sad that he didn’t live longer and that he’s not nearly as feted as some of his contemporaries.

#WilliamWantling #InTheEnemyCamp #Poetry #AmericanPoetry #TangerinePress

Blood on the leaves and blood at the root"—Abel Meeropol’s "Strange Fruits" is a haunting poem from the 1930s revealing the terror of lynchings in America. A powerful piece to reflect on history and justice.

Read the poem:
https://abhibhut.blogspot.com/2021/02/strange-fruits.html

#Poetry #StrangeFruits #LynchingHistory #BlackVoices #BlackHistory #SocialJustice #AmericanPoetry #blacklivesmatter #blackhistorymonth

"Here to Stay": the 2024 anthology collects #poetry & prose from 53 undocumented writers in America. "A poem cannot protect a person without documents from arrest. But it is capable of a resonant whisper" say the #undocupoets editors Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Janine Joseph & Ester Lin

#AmericanLiterature #AmericanPoetry

Miss Flynn tells a tale of a brief romantic encounter in “Elevator.” Please follow us for more romantic and erotic poems. #poetry #poetrylovers #PoetryCommunity #poem #AmericanPoetry #romance #lovepoems

https://youtu.be/mg1LX9n7UxM?si=nXw0BCJYHkZkbAmM

Today’s Miss Flynn reads a beautifully romantic poem about”Whisper.” Tell us what you think in the comments, and please like and subscribe. #poetry #poetrylovers #PoetryCommunity #poetrylovers #AmericanPoetry #romance #spokenword

https://youtu.be/m6tHe0gXp44?si=QSjd2fLtjBZoCgDY