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The second longest day of the year by Jean Prokott: a collection for people who don’t love poetry, and especially for those who do
Jean Prokott’s collection, the second longest day of the year, the winner of the Howling Bird Press Poetry Prize, carries the impact of Ann Sexton’s poems.
Bodega: poems by Su Hwang selected for “Read Poetry Central Minnesota 2020”
d Poetry Central Minnesota, a One Book, Four Counties community poetry read program kicks off its inaugural year by encouraging everyone in Sherburne, Benton, Stearns, and Wright counties to read Bodaga: poems by Su Hwang.
Ed Bok Lee’s Mitochondrial Night: the dizzying balance of sacred encounter
In his “Author Statement, Ed Bok Lee writes, “If, as Czeslaw Milosz wrote, ‘language is the only homeland,’ then poetry is the oldest, most beautiful, most generous and ‘real’ house of worship on our collective earth that I know. Every time I look into my daughter’s eyes to see the future, I’m reminded of this, and that the forces forever writing and revising every single biological cell in our bodies—in sometimes harmonious, sometimes conflicting, sometimes revolutionary ways—feels exactly like poetry.
Su Hwang’s Bodega: 7 hints for embarking on the risky adventure of getting into poetry
Bodega is one of five finalist books chosen by Paige Riehl for Lyricality’s “Read Poetry Central Minnesota 2020” program. Lyricality aims to introduce Minnesota poets to new audiences, and to encourage book groups to consider poetry collections as a way to facilitate lively, meaningful discussions. People who read Bodega might gain insight to foster compassion around some of today’s most politically divisive topics.
7 States of Intimate Relationship to Explore in Kris Bigalk’s “Enough”
Enough by Kris Bigalk traces the interplay between the experience of codependency and the myths of Echo and Narcissus,” and calls these poems, “Lyrical, raw, and honest…” These poems are skillfully musical and open-hearted. I would also call them clear, like a crystal stream. 7 states
7 ways to read Joyce Sutphen’s Carrying Water to the Field: New and Selected Poems
Joyce Sutphen’s Carrying Water to the Field: New and Selected Poems, is a read that offers great pleasure and solace. As encouragement to spend time in the company of this beautiful book, here are 7 ways to read Joyce Sutphen’s Carrying Water to the Field
Why “Read Poetry Central Minnesota 2020” is NOT a competition
Is “Read Poetry Central Minnesota 2020" a competition? Good grief—no! Lyricality is working is to honor all poets and all forms of poetry, not to make hierarchies and create ranks. We have no intention in calling one of these five fine books, selected by Paige Riehl...
7 Reasons to Read Katelynn Hibbard’s 3rd Collection of Poems, “Simples”
Simples by KateLynn Hibbard, one of five finalist books for Lyricality’s “Read Poetry Central Minnesota 2020” program. If you like to read history with a women’s studies point of view, if you like imaginative fact-based stories with a core of emotional truth, you’ll likely find something in this book to love.
The 5 finalist books for “Read Poetry Central Minnesota 2020”
Paige Riehl, whose book Suspension was selected by Lyricality in April 2019, has chosen these five books as suitable to Lyricality’s “Read Poetry” program goal of stimulating meaningful discussions among readers throughout central Minnesota ’s Great River Regional Library system.
Why Lyricality chose Paige Riehl’s SUSPENSION to launch “Read Poetry Central Minnesota”
Why we chose Suspension by Paige Riehl Muriel Rukeyser, in her 1949 book of essays, The Life of Poetry, tells us contemporary poetry is important, especially in a climate of divisive political polarization. When contentions and divisions worsen into mass hatred, which...
Alt-Lit: #instagrampoets Benjamin Aleshire, Pavana Reddy, and Atticus, and the Democratization of Poetry
Poems are like atomic particles with latent power.Tracy Rittmueller In the history of human culture, poetry is an important, primary experience. Maria Popova calls poetry an “adrenalizing force.” Poetry, she says, “speaks to us when we’re most porous emotionally.”...
How to Survive Tragedy: Button Poets Rudy Francisco, Blythe Baird and Sarah Kay offer words to build hope
Spoken Word performers lift poems off the page and breathe them into the air between us in a way that can turn the wreckage of our tragedies into a celebration. We are ALIVE! Rudy Francisco, Blythe Baird, and Sarah Kay are three spoken word performers, published by...
Poetry 101: What is literary poetry?
For some people, there is only Poetry (too often pronounced with a capital P and a snobbish, breathy accent), and everything that fails to meet their rigorous standards is NOT Poetry, is inferior, cheap swill. While we at Lyricality admire literary poetry, we stand...
6 Songs that work like Good Poems
Not convinced that song lyrics can be poetry? Minnesota’s own Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature—doesn’t that settle it? While not all song lyrics are lyrical, when, by the power of irresistible attraction, music and words come together, there is some kind of...