Poetry http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/index.rss en-en Copyright (c) 2013 The Geist Foundation Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:36:00 GMT in my dreams A visceral scene of bloodshed wrought over injustice. From The Enpipe Line: 70,000 km of poetry written in resistance to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines proposal.

]]> http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/in-my-dreams/ http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/in-my-dreams/ Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:36:00 GMT The Slave Castle of Elmina sure enough when we quieted down we could hear its faint cries and sense its frantic little bird heart rattling in its cage of bones

]]> http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/the-slave-castle-of-elmina/ http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/the-slave-castle-of-elmina/ Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:28:00 GMT Superman, You Prick "You know, Superman, sometimes you can be a real prick."

]]> http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/superman%2C-you-prick/ http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/superman%2C-you-prick/ Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:16:00 GMT Fear of Dying to the Wrong Song You now know only that you are alive in the taxicab, seconds before it pours itself around a pole.

]]> http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/fear-of-dying-to-the-wrong-song/ http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/fear-of-dying-to-the-wrong-song/ Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:02:00 GMT Pugnax Gives Notice A poem about a gladiator who falls into an existential malaise, and 10 facts about the brutal profession.

]]> http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/pugnax-gives-notice/ http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/pugnax-gives-notice/ Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:07:00 GMT Haiku Horoscopes Jonathan Ball predicts your fate in 5, 7, 5.

]]> http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/haiku-horoscopes/ http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/haiku-horoscopes/ Mon, 30 May 2011 15:08:00 GMT Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Gray Whale, After Wallace Stevens and Ending with a Line from Rilke This poem from Poet Laureate Brad Cran was inspired by two gray whales that swam into the harbour in downtown Vancouver in 2010.

]]> http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/thirteen-ways-looking-gray-whale/ http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/thirteen-ways-looking-gray-whale/ Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT Tenement Song From Red Nest, Gillian's first book of poetry and the winner of the ReLit Award for Poetry in 2010.

]]> http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/tenement-song/ http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/tenement-song/ Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:03:00 GMT O Rose What happens when you take a famous poem and run it through a series of European language translations and back to English?

]]> http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/o-rose/ http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/o-rose/ Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:27:00 GMT Twenty-One Haiku from the Sylvia Hotel Bar What happens when a poet is inspired and the only thing on hand is a cocktail napkin?

]]> http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/twenty-one-haiku-sylvia-hotel-bar/ http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/twenty-one-haiku-sylvia-hotel-bar/ Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:31:00 GMT A Perfect and Faithful Record We rank suffering and turn our disturbances into photographs — disturbances trapped behind glass.

]]> http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/perfect-and-faithful-record/ http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/perfect-and-faithful-record/ Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:48:00 GMT Readme Doc Gregory Betts uncovers 150 new poems when he crosses out words or letters from Shakespeare's Sonnet 150.

]]> http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/readme-doc/ http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/readme-doc/ Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:12:00 GMT Lost in the West Edmonton Mall “You Never Looked So Simulating,” a poem presented at the In(ter)ventions conference in Banff, February 2010, and first published in West Coast LINE.

]]> http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/lost-west-edmonton-mall/ http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/lost-west-edmonton-mall/ Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:41:00 GMT Anagram From If Language, a poetry collection published by BookThug in 2005. Each poem in the book is an anagram of an epigraph written by Steve McCaffery that contains 525 letters. Gregory Betts’ essay “Trench Poetry” appeared in Geist No. 54.

]]> http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/anagram/ http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/anagram/ Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT For Uncle Dong Fei Who Just Keeps Going From Noise from the Laundry, published by Talonbooks in 2008.

]]> http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/uncle-dong-fei-who-just-keeps-going/ http://www.geist.com/findings/poetry/uncle-dong-fei-who-just-keeps-going/ Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:25:00 GMT