February 6th, 2008 at 08:02am Under Poetry
We?ve taken Bob Holman?s choices of the best poetry books published in 2007, from Alice Notley, Helen Adam, Philip Whalen, Aram Saroyan, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Aracelis Girmay and Amiri Baraka,…
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February 6th, 2008 at 08:02am Under Poetry
There?s something about the number 7: it has long been associated with luck, it?s the right length for easily memorable phone numbers, it?s the traditional number of the virtues and…
Read full article at 7 Things You Should Know About Being a Poet: A List of Lists
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February 6th, 2008 at 08:02am Under Poetry
Robert Burns, ?Rabbie Burns,? is Scotland?s most famous poet, a cultural icon whose name is to this day synonymous with Scottish life and the Scots language. Like William Blake, he…
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February 6th, 2008 at 07:02am Under Poetry
There have been times in my life when, disdaining the bad poetry I heard too much of at open readings, I set the concept of ?poetry as therapy? against ?poetry…
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February 6th, 2008 at 07:02am Under Poetry
We?ve been having fun with moving poetry pictures since the very beginning of this site — Bob Holman produced the United States of Poetry PBS series before becoming a Poetry…
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February 6th, 2008 at 07:02am Under Poetry
We?ve taken Bob Holman?s choices of the best poetry books published in 2007, from Alice Notley, Helen Adam, Philip Whalen, Aram Saroyan, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Aracelis Girmay and Amiri Baraka,…
Read full article at Poetry Picks: The Best Books of 2007
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February 6th, 2008 at 07:02am Under Poetry
We?ve posted a number of times here about ?the poetry of place,? poetry?s often-intimate connection with the poet?s home place, and the celebration of poets? homes after their passing as…
Read full article at Frost?s Homer Noble Farm Treated Most Ignobly
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February 6th, 2008 at 07:02am Under Poetry
Since ancient times, poets have used acrostics to embed ?secret? messages in their poems (not so secret, actually — an acrostic poem spells out its subject in the first letter…
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February 6th, 2008 at 07:02am Under Poetry
Classic Lit Guide Esther Lombardi reminds us that January 22 is ?Byron Day,? the birthday of George Gordon, Lord Byron. He was the descendant of English naval officers and barons…
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February 6th, 2008 at 06:02am Under Poetry
First published in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth?s Lyrical Ballads in 1798, it?s one of the great narrative poems — a parable demanding respect for God?s creations, all creatures…
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