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About Poetry
With his three heteronyms, imaginary brother poets, Fernando Pessoa was a literary movement all by himself. When he died in 1935, he left behind a whole steamer trunk full of...
About Poetry
Last year, for reading around the 4th of July holiday, we put together a selection of classic American poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emma Lazarus, Walt Whitman,...
About Poetry
Over the years we’ve written a lot on this site about the intermingling of poetry and music — see the list below for a sampling of our posts. The two...
About Poetry
Poetry must be coming into its own as a public art these days — not as you might think, in ephemeral performances, but in more permanent form — poems are...
About Poetry
Congratulations are once again due to Forum poet Guy Kettelhack (GuyBlakeKett), whose poem “What April in New York Is” was chosen as second place winner in the May 2008 InterBoard...
About Poetry
Emily Dickinson wrote no epics or stage plays, and her poems did not partake in public life in her own century (the 19th) — yet more than a few of...
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Does this “punishment” fit the crime? The teenagers who partied too hard and trashed Robert Frost’s farm home in Vermont have been sentenced to sit through two class sessions on...
About Poetry
The Forum poets were active this month in pointing out poems worthy of InterBoard Poetry Competition nomination, and we’ve selected three good ones to represent our Forum this month:
“My Mother...
About Poetry
Curiouser and curiouser.... I’ve exchanged some further correspondence with Lia Booth, the lit student who alerted us to our replication of an old misprint in W.B. Yeats’ poem “Among School...
About Poetry
Today we received a note from a student of textual analysis that sent me scurrying to my bookshelf to check the text of a poem we’ve posted in our About...
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