Not Just 2: A Plethora of Medusa Poems & a Giveaway

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Frederick Sandys (1829-1904)

 

 

One of my favorite finds from National Poetry Month is Negative Capability author Melissa Dickson’s  SweetAegis:Medusa Poems.  Enjoy Medusa’s Dilemma (and a bonus poem over on the Dead Mule blog. ) Here’s a link to an interview about the collection.

 

 

 

 

Alice Pike Barney, 1892

 

 

 

Louise Bogan’s darker Medusa is from Poetry’s archives.  The full collection  Body of this Death (1923) is available as a FREE download in several formats at archive.org. Find out more about Bogan’s life and career at Modern American Poetry.

 

 

 

 

 

Caravaggio, 1597

 

Carol Ann Duffy’s Medusa is part of The World’s Wife collection and is widely studied in Secondary Schools in the UK. A brief bio from the British Council.  Hear her speak on her fairytale/mythological characters in an hour-long Reflections Of The Poet Laureate lecture.

 

 

 

 

model by Chris Wauchop

 

 

 

Slam poet Patricia Smith’s Medusa is even more dazzling in person.  Get your performance fix from this Hampshire Slam Collective video. 

 

 

 

 

 

Finger Tat by Bang Bang

 

 

The great Sylvia Plath reads her Medusa in a vintage video find. Astute listeners will note that the spoken version differs slightly from that in The Collected Poems.

 

 

 

 

 

***Have a Medusa poem of your own or admire that of another poet? Post in the comments for a chance to win a set of handmade bookmarks with fairytale/mythological themes.

 

 

Go Ask Alice (2sDay Poems)

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#ReadWomen2014, 2sDay Poems, Alice Friman, Alice Notley, Culture of One, LSU Press, Lucia Stewart, poetry readings, Songs and Stories of the Ghouls, University of Chicago, University of Georgia summer poetry, Vinculum, Wesleyan University Press, women artists

Alice in Wonderland by Lucia Stewart (prints available at Fine Art America)

 

Today’s post features not two poems, but two readings by women poets.  Alice Friman reads at The University of Georgia for Seat in the Shade: Summer Poetry Reading Series, while Alice Notley comes to you from The University of Chicago in a reading sponsored by the Renaissance Society.  Links to the collections read from by both Alices follow the videos. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purchase Vinculum at LSU Press.

Culture of One available at Penguin/Random House.

Songs and Stories of the Ghouls from Wesleyan University Press.