Links: poetry

Katherine Yang has "been marking the seasons by the inhale and exhale of this tree" with photos and a poem. I feel every meter of these loops.

Laurie Anderson inspired a deep dive and creation of a poetry tag for bookmarks. This led to a rabbit hole... As Coudal Partners put it back in the day, "You don't see many poetry memes on the web" but thanks to the Internet Archive, you can revisit this collection.

Starting my morning rounds with this performance featuring Laurie Anderson in a concert of new works inspired by poet C. P. Cavafy / via MetaFilter

Tranquil and delight-filled, I love this personal site that contains much goodness in exploration.

Matt Haughey shares his favorite YouTube video from 2023. It's 11 minutes of Andrew Bashford explaining new ways to approach and experience poetry and it’s well worth the time.

Back in the early-ish days of the internet (2003) there was this enigma of a webcomic called A Softer World by Joey Comeau and Emily Horne. It was brooding, poetic and often delightful in some weird way. I love that the archives are still online in their low resolution glory long after they stopped publishing new ones.

Rachel updated her The internet used to be fun table and there are some new gems like this poem of a page. I could spend many afternoons wandering these paths.

music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.

A poem by Amanda Gorman with illustration by Angie Wang

Jason Farago dives deep into a piece of art by Jasper Johns. Scrolling through, zooming in and out, enlightening, emotional, poetic. / via airbagindustries, Greg Storey

"People don't open up your Notes app and look through your notes. It's sacred." this and lots more good thinking about the notes app / via Om Malik

There's wonderful art throughout this feature that spans illustration, photography, video and poetry

Can a poem inspire behavior change? I believe this one can.

A beautiful collaboration of animator Anna Ginsburg, painter Melissa Kitty Jarram. Poem and VO by Warsan Shire. Released for World Refugee Day 2019. / via Yewknee

"Writing—songwriting, essay writing—is taking that step into the world, allowing our voices to be lifted over the wall, acknowledging that we can never be fully formed. That our influences will continue to shape us, that those closest to us will help build our stage. We are lent resonance by our past. We are always in the process of becoming." Zan's writing is poetic

I saw Zach speak at the first Creative Mornings event I ever attended and loved what he was doing then. Been digging his Instagram feed of late. Interested to watch this!

A poem by Shane Koyczan animated by many. A touching view of the effects of bullying.

A poem by Constantine P. Cavafy on The Paris Review's Tumblr

This is easily a favorite of Austin's blackout poems.

Newspaper blackout poem by Austin Kleon

Poetry at its finest. "Resist the urge to hang out with your cell phone." / via BBlinks

Found this on Radio Exile, and as Shawn over there put it: "Art is often editing." True dat. Exceptional site design to boot.

Ben grew a beard 'cause he though it looked Deep.

I am trying hard to not get too sucked into this site until later, but man it's good. (Link to Archive, but here's a YouTube Playlist)

Poetry read into an answering machine.

Interpretting Grandaddy (requires QuickTime) PS, it's beautifully simple