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Tag: poetry

Anyone for Tennyson is a series of articles about poetry
Arts & Entertainment

A wedding in Wessex . . . and you’re all on the guest list!

The countryside was made furtherly famous by the novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). He had reached back into Anglo-Saxon history.

by William P. Perry
Posted on May 22, 2022
Life In the Berkshires

Words with healing power: Great Barrington Pandemic Poetry Project

“Words have the power to both destroy and heal. The latter is needed now more than ever.”
–-Town Manager Mark Pruhenski.

by Edge Staff
Posted on July 23, 2020
Arts & Entertainment

What’s My Lion? A Zooful of Poetry

Lively animal poems to share with children and grandchildren

by William P. Perry
Posted on July 5, 2020
Arts & Entertainment

So That’s Where It’s From!

So, that line you love comes from a poem. Who knew?

by William P. Perry
Posted on June 7, 2020
Arts & Entertainment

Sports canceled: Poetry to the rescue

It is early May of 2020, and the world of sports is at a standstill. So what is a bereft sports fan to do? Why, turn to poetry, of course.

by William P. Perry
Posted on May 10, 2020
Arts & Entertainment

Introduction to a New Column.

Introducing a new bi-weekly series, a kind of Berkshire Poetry Protection Program that would offer cultural affirmation, a necessary degree of solace and uplift, and overall, a wealth of joy and pleasure in troubled times.

by William P. Perry
Posted on May 3, 2020
Life In the Berkshires

Haikus for winter

At this point, obsessed with grayness as I am and as are so many of the people I know, I’ll stick to the weather, daily life, my neighborhood, Mutzl (my dog) and Hermes (my cat) bad politics and delicious food.

by Judith Lerner
Posted on January 8, 2020
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: WordXWord January 2020

WordXWord barges into the new year with three January events in Pittsfield, Mass.

by Edge Staff
Posted on January 2, 2020
Life In the Berkshires

December haikus

When I wake up at 7 in the real morning and hear the long, detailed weather report, I feel… What can I say?

by Judith Lerner
Posted on December 18, 2019
Arts & Entertainment

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Future Only Rattles When You Pick It Up’ by David Giannini

What succeeds best is Giannini’s elevated grasp of writing poetry that holds up the freedom and inventiveness of words, positioning words as Emily Dickinson might: spare, poignant and celebratory.

by Colin Harrington
Posted on May 9, 2019
Arts & Entertainment

BOOK REVIEW: David Giannini’s poems summon a careful cultivation of daily life

The most alluring kernels in Giannini’s nearly five dozen poems seem to lie at the intersection of the past and the present.

by Hannah Van Sickle
Posted on April 25, 2019
Arts & Entertainment

GB ArtWeek: Spoken-word performance by slam poet Kofi Dadzie plus youth poetry slam and open mic at Fuel Bistro

As a genre, spoken-word poetry has its roots in oral traditions and performance. Spoken word can encompass or contain elements of rap, hip-hop, storytelling, theater, jazz, rock, blues and folk music.

by Hannah Van Sickle
Posted on April 23, 2019
Arts & Entertainment

POEM: Demons on the half shell

And like it or not we continue to drink from the same salted cup
Toe tapping perhaps to Lonesome Sundown 

by John Lawson
Posted on April 6, 2019
Arts & Entertainment

On being a writer: From poet to novelist

After poetry’s compressed, telegraphic form, I couldn’t let all the nouns and verbs just hang out in sentences.

by Sonia Pilcer
Posted on February 4, 2019
Viewpoints

POEM: Skipping with a rope in Pa

Soft whispers and the cure of moonlight/ Fade into what might have been/ A waking dream foretold perhaps/ Amongst popcorn and a silent movie

by John Lawson
Posted on November 24, 2018
Viewpoints

POEM: The Backwards Geese (from the gate outside South Egremont School)

as if time could run backwards at their beckoning;
as if winter could recede from my fingers and the white gate swing wide,
with the fall riot returning to the bracketing treelimbs,
thence to turn verdant and alive, the schoolyard now summer-empty.

by A. J. Kohlhepp
Posted on November 23, 2018
Life In the Berkshires

CONNECTIONS: Poetry and journalism mingled in William Cullen Bryant

The following year, Bryant was 22 years old. He was living in Great Barrington, working for the town, and practicing law.  He would remain in Great Barrington from 1816 to 1825—out of place and out of sorts.

by Carole Owens
Posted on November 6, 2018
Arts & Entertainment

BOOK REVIEW: David Giannini’s ‘The Future Only Rattles When You Pick It Up’ are poems witty, wise, with bold truth straight on

“It is all a matter of persistence, discipline, and long love for what I must try to accomplish. I have the feeling, the sense, every day when I wake, of rising into poetry.”
— David Giannini

by Hannah Van Sickle
Posted on November 4, 2018
Arts & Entertainment

POEM: The Launching of the Slingshot Ride

you grip the sides and start

to scream with something that is akin to laughter

by Jon Swan
Posted on October 23, 2018
Life In the Berkshires

Belle Fox-Martin’s ‘Stone Pears’ blends poetry, micro-stories in a refreshing, unexpected collection

Within her collection, Fox-Martin touches on those auspicious moments that mark the end of months, the change of seasons and the passage of time.

by Hannah Van Sickle
Posted on October 18, 2018
Viewpoints

POEM: Barefooted Dogs

Swaying,

barely anchored, I make my way to the bottom pilings

of the Mississippi Bridge and begin to climb.

by John Lawson
Posted on October 9, 2018
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: Five Senses Festival; 45th annual Gather-In; WordXWord Festival; crossword puzzles at Sandisfield Arts Center; Vera Quartet at Southfield Church

The main stage at the Gather-In will feature folksingers Kim and Reggie Harris, a performance of Jacob’s Pillow’s Pittsfield Moves! community engagement initiative, the Soul Steps dance troupe from New Jersey, Youth Alive and Funk Box Studio dancers, and more.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on July 25, 2018
Arts & Entertainment

Poet Sarah Trudgeon offers refreshing perspective on motherhood in new chapbook

Coupled with the wildly unconventional dialogue that ensues between her poems’ speaker and the composite character of Baby—as the pair navigate drug stores, strip clubs, arcade games and garden patches—the reader is both drawn in and captivated by each encounter.

by Hannah Van Sickle
Posted on July 17, 2018
Arts & Entertainment

REVIEW: ‘See the Wolf,’ poems by Sarah Sousa, innocence lost

These poems don’t demand pity; their tone is strong like the women ultimately are. She is reading her poems this Tuesday, May 22, at the Lee Library, along with the renowned poet Charles Rafferty. The reading is at 5:30 p.m.

by Kateri Kosek
Posted on May 20, 2018
Arts & Entertainment

BOOK REVIEW: ‘daddy closet’ by CD Nelsen

The chapbook is a brilliant work of art in its way of revealing how seemingly fleeting events in our lives can have enormous impact on memory, leaving lasting impressions in spite of or because of the careless actions of others.

by Colin Harrington
Posted on April 2, 2018
Letters

WordXWord celebrates Martin Luther King Jr.

In his letter to the editor, William Yehle writes: “WordXWord encourages poets to accept a greater role in the cultural landscape, to provoke and bear witness, to use their voice to advocate for social justice, to act as agents of change.”

by Letter to the editor
Posted on December 28, 2017
Arts & Entertainment

Poets Live! Poet Jayne Benjulian, editor David Scribner on The Live Poets Society salon

Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.

— Carolyn Kizer

by Edge Staff
Posted on December 8, 2017
Arts & Entertainment

The Live Poets Society quiz

Top scoring quiz takers will be eligible to win an autographed book of poems by one of our salon authors.

by David Scribner
Posted on November 29, 2017
Arts & Entertainment

Take the Live Poets Society quiz; join us for a literary salon

Live Poets Society and the Berkshire Edge will be hosting a literary salon Friday, December 8, at Lauren Clark Fine Art on Stockbridge Road. Take the quiz to be eligible for an autographed book of poems by one of our authors.

by David Scribner
Posted on November 25, 2017
Arts & Entertainment

POEMS: Grooming; Taps muted

Two poems about President Donald Trump: “Of him it can truly

be said he is all bully

and no pulpit.”

by Jon Swan
Posted on September 3, 2017
Arts & Entertainment

BOOK REVIEW: David Giannini’s new poems, summoning transcendent moments overlooked

There is a transcendent quality to his themes, one that delineates the continuum in life rather than the specific entries and exits, beginnings and endings.

by Hannah Van Sickle
Posted on May 6, 2017
Arts & Entertainment

POEM: Without Fingerprints

A poem upon the occasion of citizens being arrested for standing in the way of a fracked natural gas pipeline conveying climate change.

by John Lawson
Posted on May 6, 2017
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