June 13th, 2007 at 11:06pm Under Poetry
Garc?a Lorca was Spain?s most important poet and dramatist of the 20th century, whose work is still beloved for its passion, pride, love and death — in his word, [i]duende[/i]….
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June 7th, 2007 at 02:06am Under Poetry
Allen Ginsberg was a full believer in condense, condense, condense…. Still, he never went for the haiku. Bob Holman offers an introduction to Ginsberg?s solutions to this conundrum, which first…
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June 6th, 2007 at 07:06pm Under Poetry
Who will be the Bard for the aughties (I mean, the 00?s)? Will s/he/it appear on Reality TV and we?ll text in the words and they will be the poem…
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June 6th, 2007 at 04:06pm Under Poetry
Thanks to the conscientious readers in our Poetry Forum, we had a bounty of nominated poems to choose from in selecting our entries for this month?s InterBoard Poetry Competition. Thank…
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June 6th, 2007 at 01:06pm Under Poetry
We?ve posted last month?s winning poems in our library of IBPC winners. Happy reading!In first place, ?Refugee sproutings across the Continental? by Mike Keo, a song of ?the crescent blade……
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May 31st, 2007 at 04:05am Under Poetry
Walt Whitman was the quintessential American poet who sang of individual freedom, democracy & the brotherhood of man in the many editions of his compendious masterpiece, Leaves of Grass. May…
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May 30th, 2007 at 08:05pm Under Poetry
Edgar Allan Poe was an American Romantic, a journalist and a writer in the populist genres, the inventor of the modern detective story, and a poet whose melodic narrative ballads…
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May 28th, 2007 at 01:05am Under Poetry
?The Tyger? is one of Blake?s most loved and most quoted poems. It appeared in Songs of Experience, first published in 1794 as part of the dual collection Songs of…
Read full article at Burning Questions, a Guide to William Blake?s ?The Tyger?
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May 27th, 2007 at 05:05pm Under Poetry
Poetry and the visual arts have long been co-conspirators — poets have written many so-called ekphrastic poems based on paintings, and artists have often been called upon to illustrate poems…
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May 24th, 2007 at 12:05am Under Poetry
Robert Frost placed ?The Road Not Taken? first in his 1920 collection, Mountain Interval, so it serves as kind of an epigraph to the book. On first reading, you might…
Read full article at The ?Tricky? Poem, a Guide to Robert Frost?s ?The Road Not Taken?
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