Tag: International Poetry Month 2013

quel tempo fu: di giacomo gusmeroli

La versione scritta di questa poesia è scomparsa. Una versione audio può essere trovata qui sotto con i link a ulteriori informazioni sul poeta:

Trovate QUI più informazioni su Giacomo Gusmeroli, incluso il suo ultimo libro Lucore d’acque.

The written version of this poem has disappeared. More information about Giacomo Gusmeroli and his work can be found in Italian at the links above. A reading of this poem in English can be found below:

to listen to more poems by Giacomo Gusmeroli on this blog, click HERE.

Of backyards, children and dogs: by Anonymous

This poem in its written form has disappeared. If you want to know why, click HERE.

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to hear more poetry by Anonymous on this blog, click HERE.

Sabato notte: di Anna Mosca

La versione scritta di questa poesia è scomparsa. Una versione audio può essere trovata qui sotto con i link a ulteriori informazioni sul poetessa:

Clicca qui sotto per ascoltare l’audio:

La versione scritta di questa poesia può essere ritrovata QUI.

Clicca QUI per trovare più poesia di Anna Mosca.

The english version of this poem has disappeared,  an audio version in  Italian can be found above and the  written version of the poem in  Italian can be found HERE.

English-language poetry by this poet can be found HERE.

Labyrinthe Vegetal: by Gilles-Marie Chenot

Vous pouvez lire ce poésie en français ICI.  Écoutez une lecture ci-dessous.

The written version of this poem is available in French at the above link. An audio version of the English translation is available below:

To read more work by GMC, click HERE.

To find other poems by GMC on this blog click HERE.

Physics and the Cheerful Machine: by Tom McClellan

This poem in its written form has disappeared from this website. If you want to know why, click HERE. 

This written version of this poem can be re-discovered on Mr. McClellan’s website HERE.

Copyright Tom McClellan 2012 ~ all rights reserved

To hear a reading of this poem, click on the player below:

To read more poetry and prose by Tom McClellan, visit his blog HERE.

Quantum Leap: by Lee Elsesser

This poem in its written form has disappeared. If you want to know why, click HERE.

To hear Lee Elsesser’s reading of this poem, click on the player below:

To hear Lee Elsesser’s reading of his poem “Distant Signal” from IPM 2012, click HERE.

All rights reserved Fort Worth, Texas 2013

Italia: by Ginnie Siena Bivona

This poem in its written form has disappeared. If you want to know why, click HERE.

this work is licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported

To hear a reading of this poem, click on the player below:

Read more about Ginnie Siena Bivona and her writing HERE.

great curvature: by Anna Mosca

This poem in its written form has disappeared. If you want to know why, click HERE.

To hear a reading of this poem, click on the player below:

You can rediscover the written version of this poem HERE.

Read more poetry by Anna Mosca in English HERE.

copyright 2013 Anna Mosca all rights reserved

Window With a View: by Liliane Richman

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Copyright 2013 Liliane Richman, all rights reserved

To hear more poems by Liliane Richman, click HERE.

Cultural Atlas: You Are This (the periphery and the centre)

“Since a map is a reduced representation of the real world, map symbols are used to represent real objects. Without symbols, we wouldn’t have maps.” – Compass Dude

map key

In my previous essay I talked about mapping the terrain, the “You Are Here” aspect of a Cultural Atlas. That, and a response to the post by Brad Frederiksen, got me thinking about another aspect of maps, the key. I have always loved those little boxes at the bottom of a map, the ones that tell you what those mysterious hieroglyphs printed across the terrain mean. Even their names are inviting, intimating the possibility of deciphering and understanding unknown territories both physical and cultural: The Map Key. The Map Legend. Without this key, the caption to the photo, a physical or cultural context, where are we? Who are we?

We all have our own cultural ‘legends’ which help us read and interpret the surrounding terrain. Often, one is unaware of what these symbols are  until we are called upon to function in a situation or a place where our internal ‘key’ is not consonant with the one in which we’re operating. These legends and keys tell us not only: ‘you are here’ when they align (or don’t) with our external circumstances; but also ‘you are this’: these recognized symbols can place us in the centre or on the periphery of nations, professions, spiritual communities, families and historical epochs.

The language in which a poem is written can place it in the realm of ‘fully accessible’ only to people who understand our cultural or even personal keys and legends. Each reader in the center or on the periphery of a language group, a professional or family environment will give a new reading, using their own symbols and associations to navigate a poem – superimposing their Map Key upon the poet’s – or they may give up, the two keys too dissonant to be reconciled.

Starting at the end of this week (Feb. 1st), IPM will be presenting poems that map territories both broad and intimate, urban and rural, topographies of nations, family relationships and internal landscapes. I invite you all to come and read, bring your keys and re-map the territory of the coming 28 days of poetry…who know’s what you’ll discover about your own territory:

You Are Here?

You Are This?

“Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood.” – Milan Kundera from The Unbearable Lightness of Being