The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry : The Poetry Foundation [poem] : Find Poems and Poets. Discover Poetry. When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things" from The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry. Buy or borrow this book: Source: Collected Poems 1957-1982 (Counterpoint Press, 1985) Biography Critics and scholars have acknowledged Wendell Berry as a master of many literary genres, but whether he is writing poetry, fiction, or essays, his message is essentially the same: humans must learn to live in harmony with the natural rhythms of the earth or perish. Continue reading this biography. Poetry.com Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus. For those who can still ride an airplane for the first time. Hedwig Gorski. Hedwig Gorski (born July 18, 1949) is an American performance poet and an avant-garde artist who labels her aesthetic as "American futurism.
" She is a first-generation Polish American academic scholar and writer. Biography[edit] Her father joined the Polish Underground at age fourteen, and later the United States Army, arriving with his family in the U.S. in 1949 on the General Sturgis, which docked in New Orleans, Louisiana.[1] Her father did electrical work in Napoleonville before moving to New Jersey. After receiving a Bachelors of Fine Arts in painting from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in Canada, she moved with her first husband to Austin, Texas in 1977.[3] She is married to her second husband, composer D'Jalma Garnier. Career[edit] The conceptual process ... seems impossible to pull off.
Performance poet[edit] Populist writer[edit] She produced and funded projects to distribute works of performance-oriented literature outside the "mainstream". Scholar[edit] GotPoetry.com > > News, Events, Articles and more. Poetry Slam, Inc. Poetry slam. A poetry slam is a competition at which poets read or recite original work. These performances are then judged on a numeric scale by previously selected members of the audience. History[edit] Slams have spread all over the world, with slam scenes in Hawaii, Ireland, Nepal, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Portugal, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Serbia, Bosnia, Denmark, Latvia, South Korea, Japan, India, Greece, Spain, Mexico, France, Madagascar and Azerbaijan .
[citation needed] Format[edit] In a poetry slam, members of the audience are chosen by an M.C. or host to act as judges for the event. Before the competition begins, the host will often bring up a "sacrificial" poet, whom the judges will score in order to calibrate their judging. A single round at a standard slam consists of performances by all eligible poets. Competition types[edit] Poetics[edit] Slam critics[edit]