Next time someone tells you they don't like poetry, give them this video! Deep humanity, kindness, a sense of wonder and breathtaking imagery. I have listened to this several times because it's enchanting.
@TimGreig Жыл бұрын
There is poetry in everything and Ted Kooser is a shining example of that. His extended metaphors are beautifully crafted and he describes the simple and sometimes mundane slices of life with a masters touch.
@annemccrady15 жыл бұрын
Ted Kooser reminds us that the poetic is the essence of our everyday lives. We just need to catch it in the net of our words.
@hatleeband12 жыл бұрын
These poems are wonderful!
@Bokescreek11 жыл бұрын
Koozer was essentially unnoticed for the first many decades of his career. He worked a day job and persisted in his writing with a very limited audience, if any. Most of these poems were written before he had any significant recognition. While I understand the intent of your comment--and in many contexts would agree with it--you may've missed it, it seems to me, with Koozer. It's hard for me to imagine a less arrogant poet laureate--or a less arrogant poet, for that matter.
@lisahayden135512 жыл бұрын
I love his poetry
@marybaxter872211 жыл бұрын
I wept tears of joy and sadness.
@jillval713 жыл бұрын
As for those who just see an old man, with disdain for his age and unique wisdom, well. . .one day, if you're lucky, you'll be old and may have gained some well-earned wisdom of your own. In some worlds, people respect elder wisdom and do not expect nor desire every human manifestation to be young, dramatically flashy, hip, or without human flaws.
@fallingzeppelin6914 жыл бұрын
beautiful. i love listening to these
@UnionKid1515 жыл бұрын
My favorite poet right now, I love his poetry.
@jillval713 жыл бұрын
I suppose the calls for “more passion” display a need for stimulation in short bursts of attention-grabbing soundbites, something to which we're all subjected today by a world that increasingly mostly wants to sell us something. He's not selling anything. He's observing and sharing by showing.
@marybaxter872211 жыл бұрын
I just might try writing poetry again at age 85. Thank you Mr. Kooser
@turtlelakend15 жыл бұрын
Great poetry reading, extraordinary artist.
@jillval713 жыл бұрын
I'm also concerned that people don't seem to have the patience to listen to the keenly observed world of ordinary people and objects Mr. Kooser's poetry is about, since that is the very world we all do live in, no matter where we are. But perhaps they are simply from other hurried worlds where there's no time for keen observation or appreciation of wry subtleties.
@proudmom51412 жыл бұрын
I lived in Nebraska for seven years. It's really nice there. GO Huskers!
@unmannedlab14 жыл бұрын
Handsome Poet, I have written a poem...or more..and this is what I found: it is so easy for others to not see all the nuances of meaning in the poem. Or, even read the heart of the poet. They often see what their experience guides them toward. This is what happened when I read your poem. I'm so sorry that I was so sure that I could read a message that might not have been meant by you. Its not so easy to be a poet!
@Anointed716 жыл бұрын
Nice gentle poems like sunlight falling on the fingers of the grass.
@LovingLifeandWords14 жыл бұрын
Fabulous....
@melodykentucky16 жыл бұрын
I'm amazed at the places where the audience doesn't clap. Each poem was a materpiece.
@scottsprunger15 жыл бұрын
I've been reading some of the comments below about how Ted has no soul, whether or not this is the best poetry wee have in a country of 300 million and so on. What a shame that people do not see this poetry for what it truly is. It is America, the real America. The song of everyday, the white noise of our lives that many of us choose to ignore. It is the beauty of the people of the United States of America. Perhaps you should all really read his poetry and forget about being artsy.
@ubiquim14 жыл бұрын
To hear Newton Minow's actual voice on this clip is phenomenal for me. Thanks. I have been trying to digress his speech for a few years now, and this puts it into perspective for me, decidedly I find it the most poetic of all...
@TriggeredSymphony11 жыл бұрын
Poetry does not have a very wide modern audience. The fact that anyone is listening to this at all is borderline miraculous considering how modern society generally views poetry and how it is chronically slaughtered in public educational systems. What baffles me is that there is so much chronic, vapid negativity in the comment sections on readings like this. Don't like the poetry? Great - don't listen to it. Don't like the poet? Fine - whatever suites you.
@foreverforgiving16 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for this. I meant to save it for later but couldn't help myself - seduced by it. Love Kooser.
@UnionKid1514 жыл бұрын
An amazing contemporary poet, thanks for the post, great stuff..!!!
@timeless43208 жыл бұрын
-the special reading and the special sound...!
@varasuetamminga95199 жыл бұрын
Lobocraspis griseifusa by Ted Kooser ~ DELIGHTS & SHADOWS This is the tiny moth who lives on tears, who drinks like a deer at the gleaming pool at the edge of the sleeper's eye, the touch of its mouth as light as a cloud's reflection. In your dream, a moonlit figure appears at your bedside and touches your face. He asks if he might share the poor bread of your sorrow. You show him the table. The two of you talk long into the night, but by morning the words are forgotten. You awaken serene, in a sunny room, rubbing the dust of his wings from your eyes.
@dennisfowler69169 жыл бұрын
+Vara Sue Tamminga Reminds me of a scared cricket who came in from the cold that I couldn't bring myself to swat, so I shewed it away with a tissue, and it crawled, half numb from my air conditioning, under my ottoman near the warm tv. What is Lobocraspis Grisefusa ? -- a genus and species of the MONARCH BUTTERFLY of MOTHS or what ?
@wildcomfort8815 жыл бұрын
wish i had more money i would have watched it all. cool poetry anyway, i might go out and buy the book.
@jillval713 жыл бұрын
I pity those who can't hear the poetry for the lip-smacking. I suppose they've never had anything go wrong with their own bodies. How else does intolerance arise? I've listened to people who've had strokes, people with accents, people with speech impediments. I never considered it my right to be rude about those persons' difficulties with speech. Instead, I made the effort to hear what they had to say. That's the humane response. (I have also been a teacher of speech communication).
@UnionKid1513 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot for posting this video.
@DrNick101013 жыл бұрын
Quite hilarious what he said about the Hobbit thing. I met him today and was thinking that as well.
@TriggeredSymphony11 жыл бұрын
(2) What doesn't seem constructive is the need to belittle what poetic energies are still present in the 21st century.
@missface50416 жыл бұрын
I love Ted Kooser!
@anonymousscientist79123 жыл бұрын
“the wind turned pages of rain”
@luksikajiramonai609312 жыл бұрын
great
@artistgkovach12 жыл бұрын
Check out the poetry from my first youtube video in a series of thirty poems from my artist web site and give your evaluations. Put in psychotic episode 107 in the youtube search box then go to the web site at the end. It's about incorporating poems into the actual artwork to read as you view the paintings. Let me know what you think, spread the site! Thanks!
@keylawk14 жыл бұрын
"...the tiny moth that lives on tears"....oh my
@cathbak5112 жыл бұрын
Applaussssss!!!
@youwhatnow14 жыл бұрын
Very good, but is there a name for that squelching sound Ted Kooser makes when he opens his mouth before speaking?
@jillval713 жыл бұрын
Finally, I pity those who have neither the insight nor patience to gain something from readings like this. Why not go watch a music video instead? Some comments judge the very selection of a poet laureate. Yet, I want to wonder . . . where are their own laurels?
@amriteshmishra26763 жыл бұрын
19:30 spiral notebook
@amriteshmishra26763 жыл бұрын
17:45 passing strangers
@mamoako1521 Жыл бұрын
Poetry Rewards Rereading
@minheelee70058 жыл бұрын
Video quality is quite surprising. Feels like watching a video taken around the time JF kennedy was alive.
@SoundsandTonesRecords12 жыл бұрын
Just uploaded a poetry reading of our own, a new poet finding his voice with some strong words. Check it out and let us know what you think
@Anointed716 жыл бұрын
For some new poetry and literature experience read Dear Joseph,
@amriteshmishra26762 жыл бұрын
14:54 skater
@intransit36952 жыл бұрын
Mother - 42:52
@mamoako1521 Жыл бұрын
4:00 TS
@Psychopathis13 жыл бұрын
he is seriously dehydrated
@ineby4216 жыл бұрын
Butch I could tell by your comment, let alone your moniker, that you are young man whose massive testerone levels have (temporarily) neutralised your capacity to appreciate subtlety. These poems are not 'vapid' and 'toothless'; they are testament to a deep humanism. When your angry-young-man gig is over, come back to them.
@ladydragon777715 жыл бұрын
its like hes writeing a book not a poem
@amriteshmishra26763 жыл бұрын
21:10 moth who drinks tears
@richH162510 жыл бұрын
4:20 12:05
@amriteshmishra26763 жыл бұрын
14:59
@unmannedlab15 жыл бұрын
Cruel, handsome poet. It is not the book she is touching, it is you she is caressing, but you want her down in the squalor; at your feet. You revel in the paradigm of wealth and power; it is your true aphrodisiac. She is beautiful, and she should have the world, instead she must hang her head in shame and make a vile choice. She walks away; nice for youyouve gotten what you wanted. But not all beauties just walk away, some are queens denied their kingdom and they are not so easily thwarted.
@BrianDornTFP12 жыл бұрын
From My Poems To Yours
@OLIVER32694 жыл бұрын
I am an English poet from India. I enjoy his fiction as well articulation. very confident poet.
@amriteshmishra26763 жыл бұрын
12:14
@AndreasZimmerman13 жыл бұрын
I *lip smack* really like *lip smack* this guys poems *lip SMACK*
@rapier19545 жыл бұрын
He had squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue that spread to his throat which was successfully treated but left him with a problem of excessive dryness of his mouth and throat. Just thought you might want to know before you make anymore stupid comments.
@amriteshmishra26762 жыл бұрын
16:06 cancer clinic
@mowgli12345678915 жыл бұрын
im with you. i like some of it. but everything he says sounds condesending
@parkermorgan756511 жыл бұрын
Not to diss on the guy, because I write myself but....Arthur Rimbaud....and Charles Bukowski....didn't have have Laureate Certificates....and did not wear suites.....
@myname14699 жыл бұрын
He makes that mouth noise that makes me not able to listen.
@BruceFerrell9 жыл бұрын
you mean talking?
@myname14699 жыл бұрын
No. Its a licking or smacking of the lips sound. Very moist.
@rpsu2b6 жыл бұрын
i believe that sound it is a result of his surviving mouth or throat cancer.
@takmaps7 жыл бұрын
no one licks his own mouth as much as this guy
@SolitaryWarrior15 жыл бұрын
Yes, he's very talented. But where's the SOUL?
@workingclown12 жыл бұрын
Even after college I have trouble distinguishing poetic gold from pretentious drivel.
@warlockboyburns13 жыл бұрын
24:56 very funny
@TheUltimateGC11 жыл бұрын
This is really good but Jesus, that lip smacking is difficult to listen to. Bleh
@sherlockholmeslives.16059 жыл бұрын
I'm not a poet!!!
@NathanForst15 жыл бұрын
I just cannot concentrate. I keep listening to his lips smacking. It is too damn annoying.
@jldrue13 жыл бұрын
his lip smack is killing me...smackity smack yuck
@rapier19545 жыл бұрын
He had squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue that spread to his throat which was successfully treated but left him with a problem of excessive dryness of his mouth and throat. Just thought you might want to know before you make anymore stupid comments.