February 6th, 2008 at 06:02am 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…
Read full article at Poetry?s Healing Powers
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February 6th, 2008 at 06:02am 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 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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February 6th, 2008 at 06:02am 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 06:02am 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
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 06:02am 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…
Read full article at Poetry?s Healing Powers
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February 6th, 2008 at 06:02am Under Poetry
Like anyone who works online, I?ve had to come up with a series of new passwords for secure sites that require password changes every few months, or even every month,…
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February 6th, 2008 at 06:02am 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…
Read full article at Hidden meaning encoded in a poem sends the poet to jail
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February 6th, 2008 at 05:02am 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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