Poetry & Poetics

w/ Charles Bivona

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“All a poet can do today is warn.
That is why the truest poets must be truthful.”

Wilfred Owen

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Sitemap of Content

DEDICATIONS

• You will hardly know who I am or what I mean ..

• Dear Rose: a eulogy by Charles Bivona

• The Way of My Working Class Mother

• “Best Friends for Dummies” by Sang Lee

• Rich Get Richer ’til the Poor Get Educated

• Then a young poet asks me, “How do you admit you’re a poet?”

• Why I Dumped my PhD Program at Drew University

• I saw the best minds of my generation get fired for blogging ..
  
• Dear America: I’m Nobody.. Just like you..

• Our Great Depression
  

 

POETIC PREFACE

• “Some Final Thoughts on PhD Study: I’m just done.” by Charles Bivona
  

• “As I said to my younger brother: a microblog for poets and writers” by Charles Bivona

• But I, being poor, have only my dreams ..

• It has somehow become un-cool to sound like you know what you’re talking about.

• “If You’re So Damn Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?” by Charles Bivona
  

 

POETIC INTRODUCTION

• “Walt Whitman Would Be a Poet Blogger” by Charles Bivona

• Then he said: “Think of Twitter as a Cocktail Party.”
  
• “Roar! Lion of the Heart..and tear me open” : a note from @CharlesBivona

• Boyhood Crush: Her rhythms are shifting and subtle ..

• America.. Equal Daughters.. Equal Sons..

 

POETIC PREP

• M.H. Abrams: On Reading Poems Aloud [75 minutes]

• Poet in American Culture, Part 1

• Poet in American Culture, Part 2

• Poet in American Culture, Part 3

• Poet in American Culture, Part 4

• The Metaphors American Men Have to Live With

• All Language is Poetry. All Movement is Dance.

 

POEM VIDEOS

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“The ear is the only true writer
and the only true reader.”

Robert Frost

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• How everything turns away quite leisurely from the disaster..

• Withdrawn to our determined and appropriate distance ..

• I pour words over empty space ..

• Who wants to buy it .. sell it .. make it disappear ..

• The world is ugly and the people are sad ..

• All I ever wanted was a house that wasn’t haunted.

• America Mistaken for White People

• But America is an Excerpt on Television

• And our good times start and end.. without dollar one to spend..

• The best lack all conviction.. the worst are full of passionate intensity..

• The Art of Losing’s Not Too Hard to Master

• .. being but a broken man, I must be satisfied with my heart ..

• Born like this .. into this ..

• I have not lost my mind.. I recognize our disastrous human kind ..

• As he paces in cramped circles, over and over ..

• The long road of it all ..

• How do I love thee? Wait! Let me count…

• My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.
  
• Thank God for [Almost] Forty

• It is fitting and delicious to lose everything..

• I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.

• What if Jack Kerouac had Twitter On the Road

• Do what you are going to do, and I will tell about it.

• Poet Professor in Autumn Years

• Talk to the sky. Act like you talk.

• Get Away From Me! I mean, come here…

• There was some talk then of how difficult it had become to govern.

• #Poem for the Twitter Community from @Charles Bivona via #CBAnthology

• Sex Goddess of the Western Hemisphere

• Ex-Humans. Ex-Slaves. Un-Known. In-Correct.

• Hip-Hop Poetry via .@SageFrancis

• I make a goddamn difference! What about you?

• This is called “Chopped Off Arm”

• I could not travel both and be one traveler ..

• Every woman adores a Fascist [ ? ]

• I myself am hell, nobody’s here-

• Everybody’s serious but me ..

• Underwear with bulges .. very shocking!

• Don’t eat anymore food in your room.. mother said ..

• .. born In a half savage country, out of date ..

• - ignoring the index of economic indicators –

• One Nation of Minorities, Too.

• Dancing in the dessert.. blowing up the sunshine..

• But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.
  

• Poetry is far more vivid than any war reporting could ever be.

• The Revolution Will Not Give Your Mouth Sex Appeal

• The Revolution will be YouTube-sized

• We circle silently about the wreck ..

• .. and then I broke her heart ..

• Places where the scars will be.
  

• All donuts have names that sound like prostitutes ..

• And by the way, Twitter, F*ck Ashton Kutcher

• Misery in the sound of the wind, in the sound of a few leaves ..

• In my life the furniture eats me ..

• Wherever I am .. I am what is missing ..

• Worn Out w/ Looking

• A Dumb Love.

• Hip-Hop Poetry at Andrew Breitbart’s Weinergate via @SageFrancis

• Thanksgiving Poem for Memorial Day via #CBAnthology

• My mother never forgave my father for killing himself ..

• If I had a soul .. I sold it for pretty words ..

• .. for this frightened thing we call love ..

• I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope ..

• These Faces in the Crowd

• That smile so wide it wraps itself around the waist of the universe ..

• Orange into GRAPE and grape into ORANGE forever ..

• I have not lost my mind.. I recognize our disastrous human kind ..

• Underwear with bulges .. very shocking!

 

POETIC ZEN

• The Secret to My Social Media Blogging: a meditation

• Poetic Preface: “Power Animals” by Charles Bivona
  

• Introduction: Zen and the Art Of

• Dreadful Hoax: they made you miss everything

• You cannot go to the place where you are now.

• Becoming a Buddha w/ Social Media

• Our Language Contains Innumerable Ghosts, Part 1 of 3

• All Stuff Becomes an Articulate Form that Matters, Part 2 of 3

• The Military Anaology, The Chain of Command, Part 3 of 3

 

AFTERWORD

• Said the Right Wing Skeleton: “Forget About Your Heart.”

• Science is the poetry of reality.

• And poets should stay out of politics or become monsters ..

• How fragile we are.. between the few good moments..

• What is Now Proved Was Once Only Imagined

• Some Light Poetry for the Social Media Tribe

• Maybe I should lick her with my nine millime…ter..

• Jack Kerouac Reads His American Haiku

Thank you for sharing some poetry with me!

Yours Very Truly Always

Charles Bivona

 

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