April 24th, 2007 at 09:04pm Under Poetry
Just in time for his birthday, today, we have the publication of a new poem by William Shakespeare! It?s only 18 lines, a throw-away epilogue written for a command performance…
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April 23rd, 2007 at 01:04am Under Poetry
Poets are the first responders of the imagination when a community is faced with catastrophic events, whether natural or man-made. Witness the outpourings of poems in response to the terrorist…
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April 18th, 2007 at 01:04pm Under Poetry
If you?re looking for the definitions of the New Poetry, ask your Poetry Guide Bob Holman first: see his manifesto ?Open Mic: Definitions, Rules, Etiquette, Irony.? The poetry open mic…
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April 12th, 2007 at 06:04pm Under Poetry
Orality & Literacy: The Technologizing of the WordBob Holman reviewed Walter J. Ong?s analysis of the oral tradition and how writing changed human society and consciousness: ?To read Ong?s book…
Read full article at Two Essential Book Reviews (Oldies But Goodies)
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April 5th, 2007 at 12:04am Under Poetry
Is April truly the cruellest month? Surely not since 1996, when the Academy of American Poets launched the first National Poetry Month. Last year the Academy sponsored a number of…
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April 4th, 2007 at 10:04pm Under Poetry
Because the Forum poets have not stepped up to nominate their colleagues? poems for entry in the InterBoard Poetry Competition, we?ve selected poems that have risen to recognition via other…
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April 2nd, 2007 at 10:04pm Under Poetry
In her final month as IBPC judge, Pascale Petit has chosen one of the three poems entered from our Poetry Forum as first place winner: Laurie Byro?s sonnet-like ?The Bird…
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March 29th, 2007 at 03:03am Under Poetry
We?ve had many discussions of political poetry here at About Poetry (see the articles listed below to sample them), and the relationship of poetry and autobiography is a perennial concern….
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March 28th, 2007 at 07:03pm Under Poetry
Caf?s have always been centers of literary culture — think of Voltaire in the first Viennese caf? after the coffee bean came to Europe, Hemingway and Henry Miller and others…
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March 22nd, 2007 at 05:03am Under Poetry
We began with a gathering of classic poems on winter themes by Tu Fu, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence & Gerard Manley Hopkins….
Read full article at Our Poems for Spring collection is flowering!
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