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Summer’s Here with the Urchin Bookshelf
With each new season comes six new books on the Urchin horizon. Here are the latest reads added to the Urchin Bookshelf. Sarah’s books Letters of Ted Hughes Selected and edited by Christopher Reid I wrote last week about my … Continue reading
Closing Out National Poetry Month with a Poem
By Geo Ong The Urchin Movement has certainly had a lot of fun during National Poetry Month. In the last thirty days we’ve shared with you some of our favourite comedic poems, political poems, nature poems, and an original Urchin … Continue reading
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Tagged fragments from lost days, national poetry month, poems, poetry, rainer maria rilke
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Poetry in Nature
Nature is everywhere and so is its poetry. National Poetry Month is coming to an end, but the celebration continues. And it won’t stop now, now that the sun is shining outside. ‘Afternoon on a Hill’ By Edna St. Vincent … Continue reading
Politics of Poetry
The Urchin Movement continues its celebration of National Poetry Month with some of our favourite political poems. Read on and enjoy! ‘Revolution in the Revolution in the Revolution’ By Gary Snyder The country surrounds the city The back country surrounds … Continue reading
That’s What She Said
Pursuit By Sylvia Plath Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit. —Racine There is a panther stalks me down: One day I’ll have my death of him; His greed has set the woods aflame, He prowls more lordly … Continue reading
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Tagged national poetry month, poem, poems, poetry, poets, pursuit, sylvia plath
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Not Home From Here
By Sarah Jost They’re here These last days at sea For four months I’ve been rocked and swayed pitched and rolled From India to Africa in a vessel better suited to smaller seas Eleven winter days on the Pacific spat … Continue reading
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Tagged home, national poetry month, poem, poetry, the sea, the world
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That’s What He Said
The Touch by Ocean Vuong* We slept on the floor, our bones cushioned with cardboard. Behind the wall, someone was humming a lullaby. I felt the hardwood tremble, my mother’s shoulder quivering against my back, the sound of tears flooding … Continue reading
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Tagged burnings, national poetry month, ocean vuong, poem, poems, poetry, poets, the touch
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An April Celebration!
The first day of April marks two seemingly disparate events: the first day of National Poetry Month and April Fools’ Day. We here at the Urchin Movement will always jump at the chance to connect things for our amusement (and … Continue reading
That’s What They Said: An Extended Edition
By Geo Ong Included in Truman Capote’s collection Music for Chameleons is a charmingly self-indulgent piece titled ‘Nocturnal Turnings,’ in which Capote, unable to fall asleep one night, conducts an interview with himself. The self-interview maintains a high level … Continue reading
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Tagged essays, honesty, marianne moore, music for chameleons, nocturnal turnings, poems, poetry, poets, truman capote, writers, writing
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The Urchin Bookshelf – Fall 2012
Let the leaves fall and the pages turn! Sarah’s books Fun Home by Alison Bechdel After months of reading Geo’s continuously high praise for cartoonist and graphic novelist Alison Bechdel (see here, here, and here), I decided it was time, … Continue reading
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Tagged alice walker, alison bechdel, amy goodman, angel nafis, Bill Bryson, blackgirl mansion, books, bookstores, dave eggers, democracy now!, denis moynihand, essential dykes to watch out for, fun home, glitter in the blood, graphic memoirs, matt weiland, mindy nettifee, novels, poetry, revolutionary road, richard yates, sam mendes, sean wilsey, state by state, the color purple, the silenced majority, Vermont
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