Poem
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Today I wanted to share Cuyahoga County Library’s last day of Read+Write April, which features my friend Katie Mertz! I hope that you all had a beautiful and fruitful poetry month! Happy writing and happy warm weather soon.
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Another morning shifts into view like frost receding from rooftops, the unexpected cold of April’s end. The sheets are warm with your body, the imprint next to me where your hand pressed the mattress. Now entropy. I have to leave this space and wake the baby. I finger the edge of the comforter will-less to…
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Happy earth day! Let’s talk aubade. Also known as the dawn song, the aubade greets the morning with joy and grieves the loss of the night. It flows from the darkness into the brightness of dawn, remembering the togetherness of night between lovers. The poem comes from as earliest as the twelfth century, but the…
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The ghazal! An Arabic poetic form originating from the 7th century that relies on repetition and lingers between the pain of loss and the beauty of love despite the loss. It’s absolutely gorgeous, but incredibly difficult to pull off in English. ghazals must have at least five rhyming couplets or bayts and can have as…
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Bright cold sun of April, the northwest winds whipping your cheeks red and spreading the first of the season’s pollen. Shock of yellow Daffodils holding on through sleet and snow cover reminders of the coming warmth. You pick handfuls of stems and spread them on the concrete leaving trails of green against the composite like…
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The elusive sonnet. Shakespearean, Petrarchan, traditional or modern, love them or hate them. There’s so much scholarship out there about sonnets, but my favorite is definitely Stephen Fry’s section on sonnets from The Ode Less Travelled. Learning about ancient metered poetic forms from a comedian really does it for me! Here’s an excerpt: So for…
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I am thrilled to share another wonderful April of poetry with you all! Local highlights this month include: -April 7, Flying Words Project at Kent State -April 9, “How Do We Talk To Each Other?” The Cleveland Humanities Festival -April 21, Ekphrastacy at Heights Arts -April 24-May 1, Lakefront Cleveland Poetry Festival, including workshops, open…
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So happy to announce that I have been awarded the 2022 Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council! I am thrilled to be named among so many talented Ohio artists and so grateful for the recognition of the council for my body of work. The poems that I submitted represent such a labor of…
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We need poems and poets now more than ever. If ever a group of humans existed who could see the world through a broken lens, a skewed lens, a rosy lens, it is poets. I am so glad I can speak about the world and read what truths other poets have gifted us. Thank you,…
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Please support this amazing journal out of Cleveland, Ohio! Barnhouse Journal’s debut issue dropped in February on their website here! I have a prose poem, “The Beast with No Face,” in this issue. You can access it online or purchase a hard copy.
Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro 