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Fun challenges curated by the Swell team. #AtoZPoetsChallenge
phil spade
@Phil · 2:06
#PoetryMonth | Letter C- Share your favorite poet! Join the AtoZ Poets Challenge
And if you are listening to this on the web, all you need to do is download the app. To reply into this challenge, please share the name of the poet and also recite your favorite lines or short poem from the poet. Share a picture if you can, and if the poet writes in a language other than English, please provide a translation so that English speakers can also discover and enjoy a new poet
You. Hi. So the poet I'd like to share for this challenge letter C is Angela Carter. She lived from 1940 until 1992. She was an English writer who is known mostly for her novels and short fiction. Her most successful and interesting work are her reimagined stories and narratives such as her retold fairy tale Hills, her retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. A short story called The Company of Wolves is a standout piece for me. I wrote about this short story during graduate school
I remember in the 8th grade we read one of Lewis Carroll's poems, The Jabber Walk, and we had this whole project that was kind of based around it and it was so cool at the time because it really caused us to think a lot. I think that if you kind of look back at that at The Jabber Walk, there's a lot going on in it that to an 8th grader makes absolutely no sense at all, but really will make your imagination run wild
S. Sree
@studiosree · 0:54
You. I'm going to recite a poem by New Zealand poet and Taylor University professor Chloe Hanum titled Dress Rehearsal, Branches, etch. The film of ice. On the studio window a crow looks in, hopping and shrieking when I dance in my black tutu trimmed with silver, the ballet master says you are its mother. But in a crows the sky knowing mind, could I be so misconstrued?
Prabha Iyer
@PSPV · 1:26
Hello. This is Prabha here. Good evening to one and all. So today with the challenge of alphabet C. So charmaine. Cadill is a Canadian writer who won the Relit Award for Poetry in 2015 for her collection Placeholder So. She is from Toronto, Ontario, and Cadio was educated at the University of New Brunswick and the University of Albany. She's currently an associate professor of English literature at High Point University
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Um the poet I want to share is Charles Wright, and I will read a few lines from his poem, Body and Soul. I used to think the power of words was inexhaustible. That how we said the world was how it was and how it would be. I used to imagine that word sway and word thunder would silence the silence and all that, that words were the word, that language could lead us inexplicably to grace, as though it were geographical
