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Alan Ginsberg Post-Mortem Tribute (VOA 1998)

adamphillips — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:27:02 +0000

Related Posts Gary Snyder: Poet and Bio-regionalist (Earth Day 2009), Native American “Drying the Tears” Ceremony (post 9/11), The Ink Dark Moon: Buddhist Love/Sex Poetry from Courtly Japan (written by women)

Gary Snyder: Poet and Bio-regionalist (Earth Day 2009), Native American “Drying the Tears” Ceremony (post 9/11), The Ink Dark Moon: Buddhist Love/Sex Poetry from Courtly Japan (written by women)

Gary Snyder: Poet and Bio-regionalist (Earth Day 2009)

adamphillips — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:03:33 +0000

For nearly 60 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder has combined an environmental awareness shaped by America’s Far West with a Zen Buddhist perspective that celebrates and reveres the natural world. Related Posts Alan Ginsberg Post-Mortem Tribute (VOA 1998), Jane Hirshfield discusses “Given Sugar, Given Salt”, Kay Ryan, US Poet Laureate (2008-present)

Alan Ginsberg Post-Mortem Tribute (VOA 1998), Jane Hirshfield discusses “Given Sugar, Given Salt”, Kay Ryan, US Poet Laureate (2008-present)

Jane Hirshfield discusses “Given Sugar, Given Salt”

adamphillips — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:04:19 +0000

In which the California poet (and Buddhist) discusses her poetry with Adam, and reads excerpts from several of her poems with explanations…. Related Posts Gary Snyder: Poet and Bio-regionalist (Earth Day 2009), Kay Ryan, US Poet Laureate (2008-present), The Ink Dark Moon: Buddhist Love/Sex Poetry from Courtly Japan (written by women)

Gary Snyder: Poet and Bio-regionalist (Earth Day 2009), Kay Ryan, US Poet Laureate (2008-present), The Ink Dark Moon: Buddhist Love/Sex Poetry from Courtly Japan (written by women)

Kay Ryan, US Poet Laureate (2008-present)

adamphillips — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:32:09 +0000

Since October 2008, Kay Ryan has been serving as America’s 16th poet laureate, tapped by the librarian of Congress to be ambassador for American poetry. She has published more than half a dozen books of collected poems. and is cherished for her compact, vivid and accessible verse. This profile is based on my interview with her at the Academy of American Poetry in New York City.

Here is a to the VOA story I did about her and includes audio links to an extended excerpt from our interview and sound files of Ryan reading several of her poems.

See also my profiles of US Poet Laureates Charles Simic and Donald Hall.

Gary Snyder: Poet and Bio-regionalist (Earth Day 2009), Jane Hirshfield discusses “Given Sugar, Given Salt”, Poet Robert Bly and the Wild Man (CBC 1990)

Poet Robert Bly and the Wild Man (CBC 1990)

adamphillips — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:15:23 +0000

This is a look at the Iron John aka the Wild Man, an archetypal figure representing the deep masculine found in the Grimm Brothers tales, and other traditions. This was popularized by the poet Robert Bly as a story with much to tell modern Western man, who may have lost touch with their own wildness, and therefore their capacity to protect others, and to live fully.

See also my profiles of Robert Bly himself elsewhere in this blog.

Gary Snyder: Poet and Bio-regionalist (Earth Day 2009), Kay Ryan, US Poet Laureate (2008-present), The late Terence McKenna (Conversation Snippet – 2000)

The Ink Dark Moon: Buddhist Love/Sex Poetry from Courtly Japan (written by women)

adamphillips — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:08:49 +0000

This is a story about some of the most beautiful short poetry I have ever come across. Edited by the poet Jane Hirshfield (see “Given Sugar, Given Salt” elsewhere in this blog), it is a collection of short erotic haiku-like poems written by Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, who were part of the Japanese medieval court. The themes – transience, love, loneliness, and erotic longing – are eternal, but the words come across both artful and vividly personal (not to mention steamy) across the centuries.

Alan Ginsberg Post-Mortem Tribute (VOA 1998), Gary Snyder: Poet and Bio-regionalist (Earth Day 2009), The Romance and Poetry of Space (VOA 1995)