The MarginalianHow to Be a Stone: Three Poems for Trusting Time
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/08/stone-time/
damian entwistleToday's poem:
Concerning My Neighbours, the Hittites
- by Charles Simic
https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/740392636790259712/concerning-my-neighbours-the-hittites?source=share
#poetry #nonsense #humour #aphorisms #proverbs #CharlesSimic #hittites
Blues Explosion"Evening Chess
The Black Queen raised high
In my father's angry hand."
Charles Simic
#CharlesSimic #chess
Adara Astin"My Beloved" by Charles Simic: now this is a love poem! 🔥
Laura EsckelsonIn my head, I’m a passenger on a ghost ship.
Charles Simic
https://yalereview.org/article/chalres-simic-blood-orange
Blood Orange
Anna KahnI have remembered how much I love Charles Simic's translations of Vasko Popa. here's an old writing exercise based on this poem from the Quartz Pebble cycle.
The entire cycle is like this poem, crunchy & weird. It's one of my favourite cycles - you can read Anne Pennington translating more of them here (though I don't love her translations as much as I do Simic's): https://modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/the-quartz-pebble/
#WritingExercise #Poetry #CharlesSimic #VaskoPopa #writing #AmWriting
The Quartz Pebble - Modern Poetry in Translation
for Dušan Radić Headless limbless It appears With the excitable pulse of chance It moves With the shameless march of time It holds all In its passionate Internal embrace A smooth white innocent torso It smiles with the eyebrow of the moon 1. The Heart of the Quartz Pebble They played with the pebble […]
Petar Toushkov"A little white dog ran into the street
And got entangled with the soldiers' feet.
A kick made him fly as if he had wings.
That's what I keep seeing!
Night coming down. A dog with wings."
Opinion: Remembering poet Charles Simic : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/14/1149214853/opinion-remembering-poet-charles-simic
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Michele Somerville#CharlesSimic was a Pulitzer winner, not yet a Poet laureate—I didn’t know him, had never studied w/him, had never met him, when, at a particularly difficult time in my writing life, he plucked a #poem of mine called “Lonicera Fragrantissima” from a contest slush pile & awarded it an honorable mention. I have kept this in heart & mind gratefully since. His mix of wit & depth & bite. Lux Aeterna , Charles Simic. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/remembering-pulitzer-winning-poet-charles-simic
Remembering Pulitzer-winning poet Charles Simic
Poet Charles Simic died Monday at 84. He was a prolific writer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and served as Poet Laureate of the United States. He often wrote, with both bite and humor, of the World War II era and his early years in Yugoslavia before coming to the U.S. as a teenager. In 2007, Simic discussed it in a 2007 conversation with the PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown.
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