Philosophy
I've had a weird relationship with the poetry of Billy Collins since I was a freshman in college: I found some of it to be great, interesting, eloquent, disciplined, musical writing, and some of it not even to merit the appellation of poetry at all. And don't get me started on his Marginalia and the stupid egg salad... but I digress.
I don't know whether he really deserved to be the American Poet Laureate or whether we couldn't find anyone else at the time (can you tell I'm bitter?), but if there is at least one good thing I can say about the man is that he promotes poetry and writing wherever he goes, and so it is time that he finally made it to the TED stage and shared some of his writings, which are accompanied by some beautiful and artistic animation. Oh, and the last poem, the one that's not animated, is probably one that all of you parents are going to love :)
And if you need some lullabies or bedtime stories, maybe Samuel Jackson and Tim Minchin are what you've been looking for :)
- Walt Whitman - Song Of Myself
The poetic style of free verse was born from the iconoclastic mind of Walt Whitman, an American poet who embodied the concepts of individualism and defiance to his core. On the one hand, the invention of free verse made it possible for geniuses such as...
- Go The F**k To Sleep, Read By Samuel L. Jackson
I have no kids of my own... that I know of :), but I have been around enough new parents to know that the happily-ever-after fairy tales adults tell themselves before having children are never quite what they anticipated... for better and worse. And it...
- Ah, Those Ancient Egyptian Love Poems
Poppys are red Water lilies are blue Nectar is sweet And so are you Scribbled on a wall at an old Luxor temple...NOT. "Ancient Egyptian Love Poems Reveal a Lust for Life" by Cameron Walker April 20th, 2004 National Geographic Pyramids, mummies, tombs,...
- Marginal Notations
Mark Twain left a comment about “Huckleberry Finn,” in his copy of “The Pen and the Book” by Walter Besant. "Book Lovers Fear Dim Future for Notes in the Margins" by Dirk Johnson February 20th, 2011 The New York Times Locked in a climate-controlled...
- "fiction, Essays, Or Poetry" Poll
Other than your normal activities, do you take the time to write fiction, essays, or poetry? Yes...3 No...2 Not much to say other than it is quite therapeutic. I don't do the poetry thing however. If you have some science oriented poetry, science...
Philosophy
Billy Collins - Everyday Moments Caught in Time
I don't know whether he really deserved to be the American Poet Laureate or whether we couldn't find anyone else at the time (can you tell I'm bitter?), but if there is at least one good thing I can say about the man is that he promotes poetry and writing wherever he goes, and so it is time that he finally made it to the TED stage and shared some of his writings, which are accompanied by some beautiful and artistic animation. Oh, and the last poem, the one that's not animated, is probably one that all of you parents are going to love :)
And if you need some lullabies or bedtime stories, maybe Samuel Jackson and Tim Minchin are what you've been looking for :)
- Walt Whitman - Song Of Myself
The poetic style of free verse was born from the iconoclastic mind of Walt Whitman, an American poet who embodied the concepts of individualism and defiance to his core. On the one hand, the invention of free verse made it possible for geniuses such as...
- Go The F**k To Sleep, Read By Samuel L. Jackson
I have no kids of my own... that I know of :), but I have been around enough new parents to know that the happily-ever-after fairy tales adults tell themselves before having children are never quite what they anticipated... for better and worse. And it...
- Ah, Those Ancient Egyptian Love Poems
Poppys are red Water lilies are blue Nectar is sweet And so are you Scribbled on a wall at an old Luxor temple...NOT. "Ancient Egyptian Love Poems Reveal a Lust for Life" by Cameron Walker April 20th, 2004 National Geographic Pyramids, mummies, tombs,...
- Marginal Notations
Mark Twain left a comment about “Huckleberry Finn,” in his copy of “The Pen and the Book” by Walter Besant. "Book Lovers Fear Dim Future for Notes in the Margins" by Dirk Johnson February 20th, 2011 The New York Times Locked in a climate-controlled...
- "fiction, Essays, Or Poetry" Poll
Other than your normal activities, do you take the time to write fiction, essays, or poetry? Yes...3 No...2 Not much to say other than it is quite therapeutic. I don't do the poetry thing however. If you have some science oriented poetry, science...