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Poems of Protest and Revolution 22 Aug 2013 | 08:23 am
It was nearly 175 years ago that Percy Bysshe Shelley said, in his Defence of Poetry, that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”—and in the years since, many ... Read Full Post
Turning Towards Fall: Carpe Diem 18 Aug 2013 | 09:50 pm
It’s hard to believe, but Labor Day is only a little more than two weeks away and a good number of kids here in California have already gone back to school—autumn is definitely approaching. With each ...
More Poets Writing About More Sports All Across the World 15 Aug 2013 | 05:20 am
We’ve paid lots of attention to baseball poetry here... we took note when Britain put out the call for a poet laureate of soccer chants and when the UK Poet ... Read Full Post
Hearing the Voices of the Beat Generation 8 Aug 2013 | 05:08 am
When I moved to San Francisco in the mid-1980s, came under the influence of its electric and eclectic performance poetry scene, and began to read my own poems out loud at the pressure-cooker Cafe Baba...
Fall Is the Season for Poetry Competition Entries 7 Aug 2013 | 04:53 pm
Poets, if you’ve spent the summer polishing a poem or a chapbook manuscript or even a full-length collection, now is the time to pack it up and send it off to one of the many award competitions that d...
Poe’s Poem Manuscript Pops Up 1 Aug 2013 | 07:46 am
The original manuscript of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Conqueror Worm” showed up last week at Marion Antique Auctions—170 years after it came from Poe’s pen—and was sold to a collector. Let’s hope that thi...
Concrete Poetry 30 Jul 2013 | 12:39 pm
Concrete poetry, “shaped” poems, visual poetry (or, as we like to call it, “VisPo”... they are all forms of poetry in which the visual element is part of the poem’s art, the typographical arrangement ...
Circling Back to Emily Dickinson 23 Jul 2013 | 04:38 pm
I never cease to marvel at how apropos the words of Emily Dickinson are to the thoughts and events of my life, even though I live it in a different century, a different world from hers. She is so stra...
Limericks: From Nonsense to Sense 14 Jul 2013 | 06:01 am
Among the kinds of poem defined in our Glossary of Poetic Forms is that most beloved of nonsense poems, the limerick—a five-line rhymed form that will forever be associated with the name of its best-k...
Wedding Poems 11 Jul 2013 | 05:09 am
Poems have been a part of the marriage ceremony in cultures all over the world since the time of the ancient Greeks. The oldest surviving example of the form called “epithalamium” (originally, a song ...
