May 23rd, 2007 at 10:05pm Under Poetry
Robert Frost — even the sound of his name is folksy, rural: simple, New England, white farmhouse, red barn, stone walls. And that?s our vision of him, thin white hair…
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May 17th, 2007 at 03:05am 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 15th, 2007 at 04:05pm Under Poetry
There?s a long tradition of found poems — poems made from snippets of language created for other purposes, fashioned into a poem in the manner of a collage, or sometimes…
Read full article at 21st Century Found Poetry: Magnets on the Fridge, Spam Words in the Email
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May 13th, 2007 at 01:05pm Under Poetry
It?s Mother?s Day! Time to read through our collection of classic poems about motherhood, by Anne Bradstreet, William Blake, Christina Rossetti, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling & Walt Whitman –…
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May 9th, 2007 at 08:05pm Under Poetry
It?s a recurring, unavoidable debate among poets. Some say poetry is the people?s art, created from the elements of our common language, and it is the poet?s duty to make…
Read full article at Poetic Difficulty, Accessibility, Obscurity, Simplicity….
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May 3rd, 2007 at 02:05am Under Poetry
In October 2006, Jim Finnegan, one of the moderators of the NewPoetry email discussion list, posed this question to the members of the list:If you were to stock a poet?s…
Read full article at A Poet?s Ideal Library
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May 2nd, 2007 at 08:05pm Under Poetry
We are happy to say that the Forum poets really stepped up last month and nominated a bounty of good poems to be considered for entry in this month?s InterBoard…
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May 2nd, 2007 at 05:05pm Under Poetry
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of its publication, and not incidentally, to bring more young people to visit England?s famed Lake District, the Cumbria Tourist Board has released a hip-hop…
Read full article at Wordsworth?s Daffodils Spring Up on YouTube
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April 29th, 2007 at 06:04pm Under Poetry
In the first month of his term as IBPC judge, Bryan Appleyard has offered a detailed commentary on his selection process: ?My primary cull produced a short (long) list of…
Read full article at Winners chosen in the April InterBoard Poetry Competition
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April 25th, 2007 at 06:04pm Under Poetry
We began with a gathering of classic poems on spring themes by Tu Fu, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence & Gerard Manley Hopkins….
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