It's National Poem in Your Pocket Day when we are invited to tuck a favorite poem in a pocket and carry it with us all day, sharing it with others or reading it to oneself or simply feeling its talismanic power.
I like this one.
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Showing posts with label National Poetry Month. Show all posts
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Sunday, April 19, 2009
National Poetry Month
It's National Poetry month and I urge you to check out this post of Kay Byer's. Her poem sequence "Searcher" has been nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize and she shares two poems from the work.
Years ago in England, a searcher was a woman employed to check bodies before burial to ensure that they had been clothed in English wool cloth, rather than in prohibited foreign goods.
Kay takes this dark material and weaves a deeply-felt and beautifully-imaged web of words.
Years ago in England, a searcher was a woman employed to check bodies before burial to ensure that they had been clothed in English wool cloth, rather than in prohibited foreign goods.
Kay takes this dark material and weaves a deeply-felt and beautifully-imaged web of words.
But that's what poets do.
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