poets

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2021/1222/1268223-poet-thomas-kinsella/

Apologies a bit over long Pretty amazing dude really Sad Good innings though https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/nov/27/clive-james-obituary Trimmed for rule 4; please visit the link given to read the entire obituary.

I just read that Lawrence Ferlinghetti turned 100!

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/15/509122300/poet-w-s-merwin-who-was-inspired-by-conservation-dies-at-91 W.S. Merwin, US poet laureate, two-time Pulitzer winner, and environmentalist passed in his sleep yesterday at his home in Hawaii. R.I.P.

A good long run at 96 but still, sorry to see another poet done. "Dream fluently, still brothers, who when young Took with your mother's milk the mother tongue, In which pure matrix, joining world and mind, You strove to leave some line of verse behind Like still fresh tracks across a field...

A sad passing I had missed until Resume noted it in the "Favorite Poems" thread, but worthy of note by all who value good poetry, Mark Strand died a few days ago. http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/mark-strand-last-waltz "..Now I lie in the box of my own making while the weather...

"The Sceptic" by Felicia Hemans recently come to my attention. It's too long to quote (over 500 lines decrying our horrible nature and condemning us to hell, no less!) - but I include a link to both the poem and an analysis. http://www.hobby-o.com/hemans.php I found the title and subject...

http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/index.html Poets' graves...