Tag: national poetry month
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NaPoMo, Day 19: triumph
triumph is heavy: in the crown of old wars a broken king calls for more wine
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NaPoMo, Day 18: maybe it’s
Today’s BLUE-out poem for National Poetry Month: maybe it’s lack of world lack of time lack of motivation lackadaisical rats running on a wheel of days But it’s no excuse
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NaPoMo, Day 17: spaces, faces, conversations
Today another blackout poem, but first an announcement: the ART PAGE of my website is now up! It’s still under construction (I plan to keep adding to it/changing it over time) but I’m really pleased with how it turned out and excited to have a splash of color on my pages 🙂 Here is the […]
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NaPoMo, Day 16: Proof!
Today’s blackout poem, in observance of National Poetry Month, reads thus: proof! he proclaims. more important is the space opened up by dream: the jumpman at the edge of order imagining his hour
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NaPoMo, Day 15: love is such wilderness
It’s the start of Blackout Week here at The Read Room! To celebrate National Poetry Month, this week I am composing one blackout poem a day. A blackout poem, for those unfamiliar with them, is a poem written via erasure or “blacking out” text on a given page. You start with an article, a column, […]
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NaPoMo, Day 14: When I have fears that I may cease to be
It’s the last day of transcriptions for The Read Room’s celebration of National Poetry Month. Today’s selection is “When I have fears that I may cease to be” by John Keats. Keats is a brilliant poet, and this poem is the quintessence of how he is remembered: as “one whose name was writ in water“. […]
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NaPoMo, Day 13: Unharvested
For National Poetry Month, today I seal one of my favorite poems (a lesser-known Robert Frost) in thrifted stationery. Can’t wait to slip this into a book and send it off to somebody else 🙂 Transcriptions week is almost over. Next week, blackout poems! xo Julie
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NaPoMo, Day 11: Delight in Disorder
Today’s artistically-adapted poem is “Delight in Disorder” by Robert Herrick. I’d intended the background as a sort of messy collage when I started– to go with the theme of the poem– but then it became a flag, and ultimately ended up looking like a landscape. How did that happen? I still had fun making it, […]
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NaPoMo, Day 9: Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock
As part of my observance of National Poetry Month, this week I’m doing a series of artistic poem transcriptions. Today’s poem is “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock” by Wallace Stevens. I had a lot of fun making this collage, and it was a cool new way for me to visualize the poem. Hope you enjoy it! […]
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NaPoMo, Day 8: Vulture
It’s Week Two of National Poetry Month, and here at The Read Room that means transcriptions: my own artistic (a nicer way of saying poorly-handwritten) renditions of poems I love. This week I am transcribing and posting one poem a day, and at the end of the month I’m visiting my favorite bookshop to stow […]
Julie Israel 