Tag: Anna Akhmatova

• * the 200th post: a cento

  Well, it had to happen: we’ve reached the 200th post on this blog! To celebrate, I decided to create a cento – a patchwork poem made by selecting lines from other people’s poems to create a singular poem (citing one’s sources, of course) – by going through all the posts published since I started this…

  José Angel Araguz

  February 6, 2015

  Uncategorized

  Anna Akhmatova, Aries, arts, astrology, Bert Myers, Cancer, Charles Wright, Cincinnati Ohio, Corpus Christi Texas, Eugene Oregon, Gemini, Jamaal May, Jaroslav Seifert, Jose Angel Araguz, Leo, Libra, Linda Pastan, literature, Philip Larkin, Phoebe Tsang, Pisces, poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Lowell, Sagitttarius, short lyric poems, the friday influence, Tomas Tranströmer, Virgo, W. B. Yeats, writing

• * Akhmatova & some news on the friday influence

  Willow – Anna Akhmatova  “And a worn-out cluster of trees.”                                   — Pushkin   In the cool nursery of the young century, I was born to a patterned tranquility, The voice of man was not sweet to me, But the wind’s voice I could understand. I loved burdocks and nettles, But the silver willow best…

  José Angel Araguz

  July 20, 2012

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  A.S. Kline, Anna Akhmatova, arts, astrology, bookstore, Cancer, carolyn forche, collected poems, Corpus Christi, creative writing, Eugene Oregon, heart, intimacy, Izumi Shikibu, Jane Hirshfield, Jose Angel Araguz, literature, lyric poems, MFA, nature, poetry, Pushkin, reign of stalin, Russia, tanka, The Wall, Tiger’s Eye Press, willow, writing