February 7th, 2008 at 07:02pm Under Uncategorized
Since ancient times, poets have used acrostics to embed ?secret? messages in their poems (not so secret, actually — an acrostic poem spells out its subject in the first letter…
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February 7th, 2008 at 07:02pm Under Uncategorized
We?ve been having fun with moving poetry pictures since the very beginning of this site — Bob Holman produced the United States of Poetry PBS series before becoming a Poetry…
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February 7th, 2008 at 07:02pm Under Uncategorized
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,…
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February 7th, 2008 at 07:02pm Under Uncategorized
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…
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February 7th, 2008 at 07:02pm Under Uncategorized
Like anyone who works online, I?ve had to come up with a series of new passwords for secure sites that require password changes every few months, or even every month,…
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February 7th, 2008 at 07:02pm Under Uncategorized
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…
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February 7th, 2008 at 07:02pm Under Uncategorized
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…
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February 7th, 2008 at 07:02pm Under Uncategorized
Since ancient times, poets have used acrostics to embed ?secret? messages in their poems (not so secret, actually — an acrostic poem spells out its subject in the first letter…
Read full article at Hidden meaning encoded in a poem sends the poet to jail
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February 7th, 2008 at 07:02pm Under Uncategorized
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
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February 7th, 2008 at 06:02pm Under Uncategorized
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
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