This week’s poem from Slate is entitled Little Witches and comes to us from poet Lauren Watel. We’re here again, it’s yet another Tuesday, so you know what I’m going to say to you — if you find the time, a mere couple of seconds out of your day, do go and listen to Lauren [...]
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This week’s poem from Slate was written by Angie Estes and is entitled Almost Autumn. As always, I must encourage you to listen to Estes read her poem courtesy of the Slate website. They’re offering you the actual recording of a living poet reading their work, so I don’t see why you wouldn’t take advantage [...]
This week’s poem from Slate comes from the great Billy Collins and is entitled Foundling. As always, I must entreaty you to check out the poem on Slate and listen to the recording of Billy Collins reading this poem aloud. How many chances will you have to see Billy Collins read his poetry in person? Probably not [...]
This week’s poem featured at Slate is entitled Insomnia Etiquette and was written by Rita Dove. As always, I offer you my slightly preachy, you-only-live-in-the-age-of-the-internet-once speech about listening to Rita Dove read her poem on the Slate page. I try to take advantage of everything the internet has to offer me and one of the amazing things [...]
This week’s poem at Slate is entitled Inquest and is written by Paul Breslin. As always, I highly recommend listening to the poet — in this case, Mr. Breslin — read his poem aloud. Slate offers that unique opportunity on their webpage, so I almost feel we would be foolish to turn it down. Hearing a poet [...]
This week’s featured poem at Slate is entitled After a Very Long Difficult Day and was written by Brenda Hillman. As always you can, and should, listen to Brenda read her poem at the Slate page. According to her profile at Poets.org, Brenda Hillman “is the author of Practical Water (Wesleyan University Press, 2010); Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005); Cascadia [...]
This week’s poem from Slate is entitled Mug and is written by poet Michael Ryan. It seems oddly appropriate that the poem this week should be about a mug because I have just recently entered the world of tea drinkers. No doubt this poem is about much more than a simple mug, but the title especially caught [...]
This week’s poem from Slate is entitled The Five Facets of Love and was written by J. Allyn Rosser. To hear a poet read his or her poem out loud is a gift that most people don’t get. We’ve certainly missed out on live readings of many poets who have now left this world. But Slate does [...]
This week’s poem featured at Slate is entitled Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning, and was written by Alex Dimitrov. You can hear Dimitrov read his poem at the Slate website, and this is something I highly recommend that you do because to hear a poet read their work is an opportunity we [...]
This week’s featured poem at Slate is entitled Movement and was written by self-described poet and poetry manuscript editor, Wyn Cooper. Sometimes it’s important to hear a poet read his or her work because that lends a new depth and meaning to words that you would otherwise only hear in your head. If you’d like [...]
