Poetry Corner

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

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

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…

Read full article at January 25 is Burns Night: Celebrating Rabbie Burns

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

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

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

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

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…

Read full article at Poems by Lord Byron

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…

Read full article at The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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