Famous was my 2nd favorite. It is a reminder of the only kid of fame that really matters.
But I would be lying if I said that the poem for young poets did not strike me with such a force as to take the very words from my mouth. As a young poet myself, my writing consists of sitting at my computer searching for the courage to say what I feel how I feel like saying it. Such a struggle it is.
This poem was like the permission I didn’t know I needed. A million thank yous would never adequately express my gratitude!
Hi, Macy! So excited to meet a young poet reading this newsletter. Thank you for being here and for replying so thoughtfully and beautifully - I’m wishing you all the best with your own writing. 💕
Such a lovely selection! I loved Happiness, about the two boys, capturing such a delicate moment....Such a great way to start the day, reading these poems, an invitation to seeing what is really important.... thank you!
Thank you for this collection. I’m going to share it with my daughter, who loves poetry but is already suffering from the hose-beating going on at school.
The Thing Is and A Prayer strike me in the gut. I have struggled with a respiratory infection this week. Although I did read Poem For People Who Don't Like Poems out loud to my husband.
My Saturday breakfast taken with tea and filling that second stomach, empty after sleep and ready for word food. Delicious. Raymond Carver and Mary Oliver on the same plate, like peaches and cream, beef and horseradish, eggs and bacon. They go so well together.❤️
I am so incredibly grateful that thanks to your post Maya I have discovered the Chilean poet Parra, and loved his poem so much that I went down the rabbit hole trying to find his poem in Spanish, which, was such an incredible and educational experience, it inspired me to write a whole post about poetry in translation!! In case you are interested, here it is:
Maya, this is so wild! I went down the rabbit hole with this poem. And thanks to that essay, a wonderful writer friend discovered that “Young Poets” does not exist because….. it is part of a much larger poem called “cartas del poeta que duerme en una silla” (letters from a poet who sleeps in a chair) “Young Poets” is composed of part V and XIII (and not fully!) I feel now that I have to research into why this original poem was shortened (or butchered) into this version… Sorry, I’m a real nerd.
While your page aesthetic I admire, my iPhone won’t stretch a Substack page. I cannot read half the print with my reading glasses. And am wishing that I might..
Famous was my 2nd favorite. It is a reminder of the only kid of fame that really matters.
But I would be lying if I said that the poem for young poets did not strike me with such a force as to take the very words from my mouth. As a young poet myself, my writing consists of sitting at my computer searching for the courage to say what I feel how I feel like saying it. Such a struggle it is.
This poem was like the permission I didn’t know I needed. A million thank yous would never adequately express my gratitude!
Hi, Macy! So excited to meet a young poet reading this newsletter. Thank you for being here and for replying so thoughtfully and beautifully - I’m wishing you all the best with your own writing. 💕
Such a lovely selection! I loved Happiness, about the two boys, capturing such a delicate moment....Such a great way to start the day, reading these poems, an invitation to seeing what is really important.... thank you!
So glad you enjoyed them! That poem was new to me, and I loved it!
I have been a Rumi fan for quite some time,
but it was only recently that my quest to "get it" ended.
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Lucky for me, my life crashed hard enought that I had to
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Let go
of
understanding
Oh Mary Oliver...
I know. There's a reason it's so widely circulated. x
They begin beating it with a hose
To find out what it really means
These lines helped me smile.
So glad! Poems can definitely do that. :)
<3 Billy
Thank you for this collection. I’m going to share it with my daughter, who loves poetry but is already suffering from the hose-beating going on at school.
The Thing Is and A Prayer strike me in the gut. I have struggled with a respiratory infection this week. Although I did read Poem For People Who Don't Like Poems out loud to my husband.
I love it when anyone reads anything aloud, so thank you so much 🙏🏻✨
The Nicole Tallman poem was particularly clever!
I shared this with her as I’m sure it will make her day. 🙏🏻✨
My Saturday breakfast taken with tea and filling that second stomach, empty after sleep and ready for word food. Delicious. Raymond Carver and Mary Oliver on the same plate, like peaches and cream, beef and horseradish, eggs and bacon. They go so well together.❤️
Love your description of this so much! Thank you!
Love that Ellen Bass one, then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face...so good.
Isn’t it just perfectly stated? I so agree - that simple line is among my favorites, and it appears so “artless” on the surface! 💕
The thing is got me, as I’m grieving at the moment it got me tearing up. I love your summary of poems, thank you xx
Sending much 💕✨
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Sending prayers in the form of poems.
💚 Thank you 💚
To have curated Ellen Bass and Mary Oliver gave you away as having very good taste in poetry!
Thank you for this beautiful collection!
So glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks! Sara Teasdale’s poems always moved me as a teen. I need to return to my favorite poets!
Such a good reminder for all of us to!
I am so incredibly grateful that thanks to your post Maya I have discovered the Chilean poet Parra, and loved his poem so much that I went down the rabbit hole trying to find his poem in Spanish, which, was such an incredible and educational experience, it inspired me to write a whole post about poetry in translation!! In case you are interested, here it is:
https://open.substack.com/pub/imolazsitva/p/lost-in-translation?r=2q4qf4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
But just to say, THANK YOU!!
So exciting!!! Love to see this, Imola!!!
Maya, this is so wild! I went down the rabbit hole with this poem. And thanks to that essay, a wonderful writer friend discovered that “Young Poets” does not exist because….. it is part of a much larger poem called “cartas del poeta que duerme en una silla” (letters from a poet who sleeps in a chair) “Young Poets” is composed of part V and XIII (and not fully!) I feel now that I have to research into why this original poem was shortened (or butchered) into this version… Sorry, I’m a real nerd.
Loving these poems! Just proof there’s a stanza for every season. 📝
While your page aesthetic I admire, my iPhone won’t stretch a Substack page. I cannot read half the print with my reading glasses. And am wishing that I might..
I’m sorry to hear this, Inge. I wonder if trying from a different device than the iPhone, which has a very small screen, might help?
I’m pretty sure it might well help. Ido not have this option.
Thank you - for the gesture, the message, the selection!
🙏🏻💕