February 7th, 2008 at 06:02pm 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 06:02pm Under Uncategorized
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
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February 7th, 2008 at 06:02pm 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 06:02pm Under Uncategorized
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
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February 7th, 2008 at 06:02pm 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…
Read full article at Fun with Poetry Cartoons
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February 7th, 2008 at 06:02pm Under Uncategorized
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
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February 7th, 2008 at 06:02pm 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…
Read full article at Frost?s Homer Noble Farm Treated Most Ignobly
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February 7th, 2008 at 06:02pm 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…
Read full article at Fun with Poetry Cartoons
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February 7th, 2008 at 06:02pm 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,…
Read full article at Poetry Picks: The Best Books of 2007
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February 7th, 2008 at 06:02pm Under Uncategorized
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
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