Category Archives: Trees

“Babu Bangladesh!” by Numair Atif Choudhury

Animals, Death, doubt, Existence, Fantasy, Fiction, Food, Form, Friendship, Future, Home, Humor, Inspiration, Interview, Life, Metaphor, metaphysics, Nature, Paradise, philosophy, Reality, Religion, Sea, Thoughts, Time, Tradition, Tragedy, Trees, Violence, War, Water, World, Writing

You should order this novel RIGHT NOW. It is BRILLIANT.

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My “Positively Poetry Reading Series” performance for the Hoboken Public Library’s National Library Week!

Animals, Comedy, Death, Existence, Father, Happiness, Home, Humor, Japan, Life, Love, Marriage, Metaphor, metaphysics, Mourning, Nature, New York City, Night, Parenthood, philosophy, Poetry, Poets, Reincarnation, Sun, Tragedy, Travel, Trees, Winter, World, Writing

Yes, here are those promised cows, daffodils, and the absence of Holocaust poems:

You can almost smell that I-78 highway extension through the thin gloss of YouTube.

And here’s a friendly guide to jump straight to your favorite poems:

00:00 Introduction

01:02 The origin of life

02:28 A small dot appears.  A genesis.  A thing out of nothing

05:45 Thanks a lot, Shakespeare, for the Starling

07.46 Departing from Sengen Jinja

10:00 Naming Things

11:46 Why My Kid Sobs at the Ice Cream Parlor

14:18 Not a Holocaust Poem

15:53 Cows & Daffodils

17:58 Lakawa a Stat on

20:05 A Single Swallow Doesn’t Signal Spring

20:39 Animal House

22:09 A poem written in my past life as a 15th century Georgian monk

23:32 From Out of the Darkness

26:47 Beacons of Light

28:02 Post 11

29:17 Epilogue

“Thanks a Lot, Shakespeare, for the Starling” (which first appeared in “America”) wins the Telluride Institute’s 2020 Fischer Poetry Prize

Animals, Home, Life, Marriage, Metaphor, metaphysics, Nature, Parenthood, philosophy, Poetry, Poets, Reality, Science, Thoughts, Time, Trees, Writing
2020 Fischer Prize Winners Announced!

It’s an extraordinary honor to have “Thanks a Lot, Shakespeare, for the Starling” selected as the winner of the 2020 Fischer Poetry Prize! A special thank you to judge Claire Blotter and the Talking Gourds crew for making my 2020 a little less horrible, and congrats to all the other finalists!