Starting in 1995, NPR's All Things Considered began presenting poets reading their own works. Introduced by "poetry DJ” Catherine Bowman, these popular short segments allowed listeners to experience poetry as a kind of verbal music, recalling its roots as a spoken art form. Word of Mouth, edited by Bowman, brings together the poems that have been featured on NPR, providing a window onto the dynamic contemporary poetry scene. A child playing with flashes of sunlight in the aisle of an airplane; a woman describing tropical fruit to someone in a faraway country; a man building a deck with his dead father's hammer; the musings of a Barbie doll participating in a 12-step program: these poems powerfully and lyrically transform the stuff of every day life. A celebration of the poetic voice that includes 33 acclaimed writers, this vibrant anthology proves beyond any doubt that poetry is far more than just words on paper.
Quincy Troupe • Czeslaw Milosz • Campbell McGrath • C.D. Wright • Jack Gilbert • Heather McHugh • David Lehman • Wang Ping • Joseph Brodsky • Paul Beatty • Lorna Dee Cervantes • Paul Muldoon • Lucille Clifton • Naomi Shihab Nye • Richard Blanco • Albert Goldbarth • Carrie Allen McCray • Belle Waring • Russell Edson • Kevin Young • Nuali Di Dhomhnaill • Charles Harper Webb • Denise Duhamel • Yusef Komunyakaa • Hal Sirowitz • Lucia Perillo • Amy Gerstler • Maura Stanton • Marilyn Chin • Philip Booth • Jane Cooper • Diane DiPrima • Elizabeth Spires
About the Editor
Catherine Bowman was born in El Paso, Texas, and currently lives in Bloomington, Indiana, where she teaches at Indiana University. She has worked with National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" since 1995 as a consultant and commentator on contemporary poetry. She is the award-winning author of two collections of poems, 1-800-HOT-RIBS and Rock Farm. She received the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize, the Kate Frost Tufts Discovery Award, a Dobie Paisano Fellowship from the University of Texas, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and two Yaddo Fellowships. Her poems have appeared in four editions of The Best American Poetry and in many magazines and journals, such as TriQuarterly, River Styx, Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The Los Angeles Times, Crazy Horse, and The Paris Review, and in numerous anthologies. Her poems have also appeared in the anthologies A Joyful Noise, 13 Ways of Looking at a Poem, An Exhaltation of Forms, The Extraordinary Tide, Writing Down the Soul, Motion: American Sports Poems, and many others. Bowman teaches at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and in 2001 she was Writer-in-Residence at the College of William and Mary. She regularly collaborates with composer and bassist John Lindberg; together they have performed and taught workshops at a variety of venues in both North America and Europe.
Starting in 1995, NPR's All Things Considered began presenting poets reading their own works. Introduced by "poetry DJ” Catherine Bowman, these popular short segments allowed listeners to experience poetry as a kind of verbal music, recalling its roots as a spoken art form. Word of Mouth, edited by Bowman, brings together the poems that have been featured on NPR, providing a window onto the dynamic contemporary poetry scene. A child playing with flashes of sunlight in the aisle of an airplane; a woman describing tropical fruit to someone in a faraway country; a man building a deck with his dead father's hammer; the musings of a Barbie doll participating in a 12-step program: these poems powerfully and lyrically transform the stuff of every day life. A celebration of the poetic voice that includes 33 acclaimed writers, this vibrant anthology proves beyond any doubt that poetry is far more than just words on paper.
Quincy Troupe • Czeslaw Milosz • Campbell McGrath • C.D. Wright • Jack Gilbert • Heather McHugh • David Lehman • Wang Ping • Joseph Brodsky • Paul Beatty • Lorna Dee Cervantes • Paul Muldoon • Lucille Clifton • Naomi Shihab Nye • Richard Blanco • Albert Goldbarth • Carrie Allen McCray • Belle Waring • Russell Edson • Kevin Young • Nuali Di Dhomhnaill • Charles Harper Webb • Denise Duhamel • Yusef Komunyakaa • Hal Sirowitz • Lucia Perillo • Amy Gerstler • Maura Stanton • Marilyn Chin • Philip Booth • Jane Cooper • Diane DiPrima • Elizabeth Spires
About the Editor
Catherine Bowman was born in El Paso, Texas, and currently lives in Bloomington, Indiana, where she teaches at Indiana University. She has worked with National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" since 1995 as a consultant and commentator on contemporary poetry. She is the award-winning author of two collections of poems, 1-800-HOT-RIBS and Rock Farm. She received the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize, the Kate Frost Tufts Discovery Award, a Dobie Paisano Fellowship from the University of Texas, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and two Yaddo Fellowships. Her poems have appeared in four editions of The Best American Poetry and in many magazines and journals, such as TriQuarterly, River Styx, Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The Los Angeles Times, Crazy Horse, and The Paris Review, and in numerous anthologies. Her poems have also appeared in the anthologies A Joyful Noise, 13 Ways of Looking at a Poem, An Exhaltation of Forms, The Extraordinary Tide, Writing Down the Soul, Motion: American Sports Poems, and many others. Bowman teaches at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and in 2001 she was Writer-in-Residence at the College of William and Mary. She regularly collaborates with composer and bassist John Lindberg; together they have performed and taught workshops at a variety of venues in both North America and Europe.
Introduction
QUINCY TROUPE
Flight
Eye Change Dreams
CZESLAW MILOSZ
Preparation
A Song on the End of the World
In Common
HEATHER McHUGH
The Size of Spokane
What He Thought
Unguent
High Jinx
CAMPBELL McGRATH
Delphos, Ohio
Capitalist Poem #42
The Golden Angel Pancake House
The Gulf
C. D. WRIGHT
Everything Good Between Men and Women
Song of the Gourd
30
JACK GILBERT
Tear It Down
Almost Happy
Married
The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart
DAVID LEHMAN
January 1 [1998]
March 16 [1996]
April 26 [1998]
August 31 [2000]
December 29 [1997]
WANG PING
No Sense of Direction
Of Flesh & Spirit
These Images
JOSEPH BRODSKY
A Song
Blues
Törnfallet
PAUL BEATTY
Aa Bb Cc . . . Xx Yy and Zzing
Dib Dab
At Ease
DIANE DI PRIMA
April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa
Ode to Elegance
LORNA DEE CERVANTES
Bananas
PAUL MULDOON
The Birth
Anseo
The Briefcase
LUCILLE CLIFTON
sam
june 20
homage to my hips
daughters
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE
My Friend’s Divorce
Going for Peaches, Fredericksburg, Texas
Wedding Cake
RICHARD BLANCO
Décima Guajira
Photo Shop
The Silver Sands
ALBERT GOLDBARTH
Coinages: A Fairy Tale
How Easy It Is
An Explanation
CARRIE ALLEN McCRAY
Thoughts at the Grave Site
Strange Patterns
Two Ways to Cook Macaroni and Cheese for Pastor
Trade Off
Anemone
BELLE WARING
It Was My First Nursing Job
So Get Over It, Honey
RUSSELL EDSON
On the Eating of Mice
Counting Sheep
Antimatter
The Fall
KEVIN YOUNG
[Blues]
Eddie Priest’s Barbershop & Notary
Negative
NUALA NÍ DHOMHNAILL
Nude
The Race
CHARLES HARPER WEBB
The New Marriage
Tone of Voice
Buyer’s Remorse
DENISE DUHAMEL
Hippie Barbie
Barbie Joins a Twelve Step Program
Buddhist Barbie
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA
Anodyne
The Deck
Venus’s-flytraps
HAL SIROWITZ
Two Visits in One Day
Horns on Your Head
Crumbs
Word Power
LUCIA PERILLO
Compulsory Travel
Lost Innocence of the Potato Givers
AMY GERSTLER
Modern Madonnas
Her Account of Herself
My Muse
MAURA STANTON
Gifts
Childhood
Maple Tree
MARILYN CHIN
The Floral Apron
Song of the Sad Guitar
Rhapsody in Plain Yellow
PHILIP BOOTH
Hope
First Lesson
Evening
JANE COOPER
The Blue Anchor
Rent
ELIZABETH SPIRES
Easter Sunday 1955
On the Island
Permissions
Acknowledgments
About the Editor
Catherine Bowman was born in El Paso, Texas, and currently lives in
Bloomington, Indiana, where she teaches at Indiana University. She
has worked with National Public Radio's "All Things Considered"
since 1995 as a consultant and commentator on contemporary poetry.
She is the award-winning author of two collections of poems,
1-800-HOT-RIBS and Rock Farm. She received the
Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize, the Kate Frost Tufts Discovery Award,
a Dobie Paisano Fellowship from the University of Texas, a New York
Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and two Yaddo
Fellowships. Her poems have appeared in four editions of The Best
American Poetry and in many magazines and journals, such as
TriQuarterly, River Styx, Conjunctions, Kenyon Review,
Ploughshares, The Los Angeles Times, Crazy Horse, and The Paris
Review, and in numerous anthologies. Her poems have also appeared
in the anthologies A Joyful Noise, 13 Ways of Looking at a Poem,
An Exhaltation of Forms, The Extraordinary Tide, Writing Down the
Soul, Motion: American Sports Poems, and many others. Bowman
teaches at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and in 2001
she was Writer-in-Residence at the College of William and Mary. She
regularly collaborates with composer and bassist John Lindberg;
together they have performed and taught workshops at a variety of
venues in both North America and Europe.
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