#paul engle

[garadinervi]

Gay Chaps at the Bar [in] Conference Poetry: Volume II. Fifth Annual Writers' Conference (2), Edited by Paul Engle, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1944, Printed by Carroll Coleman at The Prairie Press, Muscatine, IA [Between the Covers, Gloucester City, NJ]

Gay Chaps at the Bar …and guys I knew in the States, young officers, return from the front crying and trembling. Gay chaps at the bar in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York… ― Lt. William Couch in the South Pacific We knew how to order. Just the dash Necessary. The length of gaiety in good taste. Whether the raillery should be slightly iced And given green, or served up hot and lush. And we knew beautifully how to give to women The summer spread, the tropics of our love. When to persist, or hold a hunger off. Knew white speech. How to make a look an omen. But nothing ever taught us to be islands. And smart, athletic language for this hour Was not in the curriculum. No stout Lesson showed how to chat with death. We brought No brass fortissimo, among our talents, To holler down the lions in this air. ― © Gwendolyn Brooks [November 1944]

[gregorygalloway]

Paul Engle (12 October 1908 – 22 March 1991)

[iowacitypast]

Edmund Keeley, Mark Strand, Vance Bourjaily, Paul Engle, and R. V. Cassill in Writers' Workshop headquarters, The University of Iowa, 1960s

Creator: Kent, Frederick W.

Source: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3Aictcs_7040

[godzilla-reads]

“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.”

-Paul Engle

[gregorygalloway]

Paul Engle (12 October 1908 – 22 March 1991)

[gregorygalloway]

Paul Engle (12 October 1908 – 22 March 1991)

[gregorygalloway]

Paul Engle (12 October 1908 – 22 March 1991) teaching at the University of Iowa, 1950s

[litandlifequotes]

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

— Paul Engle