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Amanda Coffey edited the blog post ESL & Myung Mi Kim in the group The Contemporary Poem: 10 years, 4 months ago

Recently I read an article (here if you’re interested) about a poet named Ocean Vuong, who was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the USA with his family when he was two. In the article, he mentions that his family was illiterate, and that he didn’t learn to read until he was eleven, and says, “For an American who was born here, the mundane mi…[Read more]
Amanda Coffey edited the blog post Snow in April in the group The Contemporary Poem: 10 years, 5 months ago

An April Sunday brings the snow
Making the blossom on the plum trees green,
Not white. An hour or two, and it will go.
Strange that I spend that hour moving between

Cupboard and cupboard, shifting the store
Of jam you made of fruit from these same trees:
Five loads – a hundred pounds or more –
More than enough for all next summer’s teas.…[Read more]
Amanda Coffey wrote a new blog post Jayne Thompson and “Letters to My Younger Self” in the group The Contemporary Poem: 10 years, 5 months ago

I recently went to listen to writer/activist Jayne Thompson speak and I found her work to be really intriguing. She is a creative writing professor, but also runs writing workshops for incarcerated men. She even […]
Amanda Coffey wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 10 years, 6 months ago

From Propa Propaganda by Benjamin Zephaniah

They put a leather belt around her
13 feet of tape and bound her
Handcuffs to secure her
And only God knows what else,
She’s illegal, so deport her
Said the E […]
Amanda Coffey wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 10 years, 6 months ago

In the spirit of politics and poetry, I wanted to talk about the United States Inaugural Poet. For the past five presidential inaugurations, the United States as chosen a poet to read their work as part of the […]
Amanda Coffey wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 10 years, 6 months ago

From Sci-Fi
By Tracy K. Smith

In those last scenes of Kubrick’s 2001
When Dave is whisked into the center of space,
Which unfurls in an aurora of orgasmic light
Before opening wide, like a jungle […]
Amanda Coffey wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 10 years, 7 months ago

Ozymandias by Percy Shelley
“I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, who […]
Amanda Coffey wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 10 years, 7 months ago

Ah, love poems! Always good to have one on hand, am I right? Whether you’re attempting to woo a new lover or impress your current flame, knowing one or two (good ones) won’t hurt your chances.

[love is more […]
Amanda Coffey wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 10 years, 7 months ago

Charlotte Mew

A Quoi Bon Dire?

Seventeen years ago you said
Something that sounded like Good-bye;
And everybody thinks that you are dead,
But I.

So I, as I grow stiff and cold
To this and that say […]
Amanda Coffey wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 10 years, 7 months ago

One of George Szirtes claims on form in poetry is that it serves as “an act of triumph of meaning and structure over chaos and meaningless, and also with the triumph of civilized values over barbarity.” He the […]

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