Post by Skelly Craig on Sept 5, 2013 17:01:08 GMT -5
Coincidences are funny: I was just reading a poetry book by Richard Brautigan from the 60s, am intrigued by a particularly surrealistic one ("A Boat"), look it up on the internet, and notice how it was included in an article by Lemony Snicket just two days ago. Anyway:
For this month’s (September 2013) Poetry magazine issue, Lemony Snicket selects 20 poems for a feature called “All Good Slides Are Slippery: Poetry Not Written for Children That Children Might Nevertheless Enjoy.” He begins, “The poems contained in this children’s poetry portfolio are not made for children. Poetry is like a curvy slide in a playground — an odd object, available to the public — and, as I keep explaining to my local police force, everyone should be able to use it, not just those of a certain age.”
The feature is accompanied by illustrations from acclaimed violinist and children’s book illlustrator, Chris Raschka (author of the darkly humorous Arlene Sardine), and includes poems by Carl Sandburg, John Ashbery, and Richard Brautigan, amongst others.
You can read the whole feature on Poetry magazine's website, here.
Shameless plug: If you're about to post this on Tumblr, you can just reblog this post, already neatly wrapped in all the basic info.
For this month’s (September 2013) Poetry magazine issue, Lemony Snicket selects 20 poems for a feature called “All Good Slides Are Slippery: Poetry Not Written for Children That Children Might Nevertheless Enjoy.” He begins, “The poems contained in this children’s poetry portfolio are not made for children. Poetry is like a curvy slide in a playground — an odd object, available to the public — and, as I keep explaining to my local police force, everyone should be able to use it, not just those of a certain age.”
The feature is accompanied by illustrations from acclaimed violinist and children’s book illlustrator, Chris Raschka (author of the darkly humorous Arlene Sardine), and includes poems by Carl Sandburg, John Ashbery, and Richard Brautigan, amongst others.
You can read the whole feature on Poetry magazine's website, here.
Shameless plug: If you're about to post this on Tumblr, you can just reblog this post, already neatly wrapped in all the basic info.
