“OCD” by Neil Hilborn
Watch this, and watch this, and watch this again… Neil Hilborn performs “OCD” during Individual Finals at the 2013 Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam.
“The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Subscription Saturday: Poets & Writers
I’ve had a subscription to Poets & Writers for a few months, and I highly recommend a subscription for amateur and professional wordsmiths alike. Each issue is devoted to an important part of being a writer: finding a literary agent, choosing an MFA program, establishing a writing community, staying passionate and inspired.
In My Mailbox: Laura Lippman, Erin Morgenstern, Colin Meloy, and more!
In My Mailbox is a way for book bloggers to discuss all of the books that they come across each week.
“Push” by Sapphire
Precious Jones is an illiterate young black woman who has never left her native Harlem. She is pregnant with her second child, a product of rape. For her entire life, she’s been abused: her parents have both used her sexually and violently; the school system has failed her; and she’s never had a friend, much less a boyfriend. Now, she’s been suspended from her middle school, and the only option her mother suggests is getting on welfare.
Poet Gil Scott-Heron in the Park
Washington Post‘s Courtland Milloy interviews poet-rapper Gil Scott-Heron about drugs, poetry, Obama, and the inspirational power of D.C.
Melody Schreiber 