Happy National Poetry Month! This week’s P.O.P video features Michael Dickman! Reading Pablo Neruda and discussing Paul Muldoon and film! Enjoy!
P.O.P : Tracy K. Smith
*In celebration of National Poetry Month, a new P.O.P video will be posted each week for the entire month of April. Celebrate poetry!
Self Portrait, Teotihuacan, Mexico, 2010.
All day and night long. Valerie June is living music.
and also:
“I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.”
- Roger Ebert
Blessing the Boats: A Tribute to Lucille Clifton
Riding with Death (1988), Jean-Michel Basquiat.
One of my very very very favorites of Jean-Michel’s. Didn’t ever think I’d stand in front of it until today. The background is actually more metallic, lighter, more spectral. Stunning with glowing bones. Go to the Gagosian on 24th to see it. Just. Go.
“Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.”
― Jean-Michel Basquiat
“I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. I could have just as easily picked up a knife or a gun, like many of my childhood friends did… most of whom were murdered or put in prison… but I chose not to go that way. I felt that I could somehow subdue these evils by doing something beautiful that people recognize me by, and thus make a whole different life for myself, which has proved to be so.” -Gordon Parks
“My blood is alive with many voices that tell me I am made of longing.” - Rilke
“no moon, sun, diamond, hands —
fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea.
pine green, pink glass, eye,
mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.”
- Frida Kahlo
Directed by Rachel Eliza Griffiths.
A visual poem inspired by “Woman Without Umbrella”, a poetry collection
by Victoria Redel, which was published by Four Way Books in 2012.
The visual poem incorporates all of its text from various poems
in Redel’s collection.
Enjoy!
Permission to use excerpts from WOMAN WITHOUT UMBRELLA (C)2012 by Victoria Redel granted by Four Way Books. All rights reserved.
We guess
at what’s next
unlike the mountain
who knows it
in the bones, a music
too high
to scale.
- Kevin Young
