celebrities
No matter their age, some celebrities have old souls; poems written by celebrity poets and your favorite celebrities' favorite poems.
Sylvia P., The Grinch, and Me
Any mention of scissors makes me think of Sylvia Plath; they show up in a poem of hers. Can she and I both write about scissors? The better question is probably whether I dare put myself through the torment of living up to her standard? After heavy consideration, yes, I do dare. Do I have any right to even put myself in a sentence with her? No. But really, this scissor thing is hardly even comparable (I tell myself consolingly): her scissors were kitchen, mine are sewing. Hers were lost in the yard with the daffodils; mine get lost in the yards of fabric on my too-small table.
By Lauren Becker5 years ago in Poets
Open Letter to a Young Poetic Genius
NB: I wrote this open letter in January 2021, which got lost among a million pixels at the end of a wholly unrelated Word document. As I was by chance editing that document today, I happily found the letter. Though I intended to at the time, in losing it I forgot to send it to Troy, but I have now.
By Pedro B. Gorman5 years ago in Poets
Amanda Gorman
"The hill we climb" is a poem that will be forever etched in history. Amanda Gorman is the author of this historic poem. A beautiful, poised , graceful, and brave young black woman with a hearing disorder, who overcame a speech impediment and became the first person to become the National Youth Poet Laureate... took to the stage at Joseph. R .Biden Jnrs. presidental inauguration in 2021, and announced to the world that she too , aspires to also be President of the united states.
By Donna Bolch5 years ago in Poets
