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Poetry on the Menu

Adrienne Rich

 

Tonight No Poetry Will Serve

Saw you walking barefoot
taking a long look
at the new moon's eyelid

later spread
sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair
asleep but not oblivious
of the unslept unsleeping
elsewhere

Tonight I think
no poetry
will serve

Syntax of rendition:

verb pilots the plane
adverb modifies action

verb force-feeds noun
submerges the subject
noun is choking
verb    disgraced    goes on dancing

now diagram the sentence

 

Biography: Rich, born in Baltimore, MD, has won several awards for her poetry, including the National Book Award in 1974. She was a feminist and a civil rights activist. She even refused the National Medal of Arts from President Clinton, saying "I could not accept this award...because the very meaning of art...is incompatible with the cynical politics of this administration."






 

 

The Frostburg Center for Creative Writing is excited to announce a new public poetry project, "Poetry on the Menu." This project will feature weekly poems in select restaurants in Allegany County. Many of the poems are by local poets, Kimberly Brown, Community Outreach Coordinator, is "excited about this new project because we are bringing poetry out into the public, where it belongs." Keep an eye out for the colorful poetry displays to begin appearing in local restaurants!


Past Poets:

Stephen Dunn
Barbara Hurd
Kevin Kehrwald
Georgia Krieger
Nancy Krygowski
Gerry LaFemina
Jennifer Merrifield
Richard Peabody
James Ralston
Pamela Spiro Wagner
Bruce Weigl
Cynthia Zarin
Karen Zealand

 

 
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