[News] PIW 1 August 2010

PIW 1 August 2010

Welcome to the first of PIW’s two August issues, featuring poetry from India and Ireland.

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Featured Poets:

India

S. Joseph

Tabish Khair

Teji Grover

Ireland

David Wheatley

Michael Hartnett

India

Looking at the Body of a Poem

Welcome to Indian Poetry — August 2010

Poetry International Festival 2010

Finally, the site now has audio files of several readings by poets who took part in this year’s Poetry International Festival – Carlos López Degregori, Erik Spinoy, Thomas McCarthy, Marc Kregting and Valérie Rouzeau – as well as talks and discussions by editors and poets from the USA and Japan domains.

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45 poetry clips filmed on location at Atlanta Hotel in Rotterdam.

POETRY CLIPS - Poetry International Festival 2010

Poem of the week

MY SISTER'S BIBLE
S. Joseph

Clip of the Month

COYOTE
Hiromi Itō

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DarkPoetry Poem of the Day: [living is cliche]

I've forgotten who I am.

I can see pieces of who I used to be- broken like [yesterday's mirror]
and there's a newspaper spread across the table.
front page news- reported on page B2, welcome to melancholia
and the story is always the same.

[boy finds hope in life- hope dies]
and you can watch a butterfly flutter it's final days of life
pinned to a cardboard cut-out of what we want it to love

as our lives pass us by- and tomorrow is tossed out as yesterday's news
because it's all been done before. and what's said now
will touch the clouds of that sometime we all long for
and living will become cliche. mundane will replace trivial
little white lies- and we all fall down, down, down- someone forgot to tell me
that dreaming is overrated

pull the plug on inconsistencies. for you'll never amount to anything
liquid empathy, and I can captivate the masses-
one by one by one bye one- and we're back at zero
so as to never move forward. it's pointless anyways

and I've killed God. a gun to my head- and I blow smoke to the sky
the starlight flickers and the tears come down
drown me in my own apathetic greed. for I want no-one/ but me

but I've lost myself in this mass. cut the ties that binded me
and burned the bridge I've yet to cross- what luck
as I turn my head to my faded past.

I've outgrown my lies
and myself has eaten me alive-

and I hate who I've found

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Your Poem for August 4, 2010

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Without meaning to, I suddenly realize I've pulled together a week's worth of summer poetry that references that season in specific parts of the country. If I can drum up a Western and an international perspective, it will be quite an ecumenical week! Yes, I know this is the second Southern perspective, but when a nice poem like this happens along , it can't be ignored.("the woods run mad with riot"--what a fine description of lush summer woods, teeming with chlorophyll and wildlife! )

Today's poem is

"Summer in the South"

by
Paul Laurence Dunbar

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