July 4th, 2007 at 11:07am Under Poetry
For reading around the 4th of July, we?ve gathered a selection of classic American poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emma Lazarus, Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg & Stephen…
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July 4th, 2007 at 11:07am Under Poetry
A few months ago, under the rubric of ?The Intersection of Politics and Autobiography in Poetry,? we took note of a blogger?s posting of two poems written by the adolescent…
Read full article at Harold Bloom comments on Barack Obama?s poems
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July 4th, 2007 at 10:07am Under Poetry
A reference page on mystical/historical Irish poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), master of traditional verse forms, idol of the modernist poets who followed him, and one…
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July 4th, 2007 at 10:07am 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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July 4th, 2007 at 09:07am 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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July 4th, 2007 at 09:07am Under Poetry
Langston Hughes was the unofficial poet laureate of Black American life and culture, a radical democrat at the center of the Harlem Renaissance, jazz/blues lyrical poet, humorous storyteller, political playwright,…
Read full article at Langston Hughes? home brought back to artistic life
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June 21st, 2007 at 01:06am Under Poetry
In 2005, we took note of the story of two brothers from Afghanistan, both imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay and later released, who held onto their sanity while in prison by…
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June 21st, 2007 at 01:06am Under Poetry
The summer solstice — longest day of the year in the Northern hemisphere — has arrived, and we?re celebrating with a new seasonal collection of poems. We begin with a…
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June 18th, 2007 at 11:06pm Under Poetry
Langston Hughes was the unofficial poet laureate of Black American life and culture, a radical democrat at the center of the Harlem Renaissance, jazz/blues lyrical poet, humorous storyteller, political playwright,…
Read full article at Langston Hughes? home brought back to artistic life
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June 14th, 2007 at 12:06am Under Poetry
Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973) was a Nobel laureate, diplomat, exile and returned native son of Chile, the most respected and beloved Latin American poet, often called ?the people?s poet.?…
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