Poetry News For May 11, 2008
Poetry News:
- — Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins is so moved by a shipwreck that he starts writing again —
- — Quiet, dear, Mummy’s writing —
- — Pulp Fiction was a seminal film. Will Shakespeare was a seminal poet. Obviously it follows that the two should be mixed together, which is exactly what has been done at Pulp Bard. LOL —
- — But Pritikin is taking nothing for granted, and continues to promote Wrigley’s salvation. Here is his poem to rally the troops —
- — Pupils were asked to imagine how it feels to be imprisoned without access to a fair trial and then express their feelings in the form of a poem —
- — Alexander Pope’s longest and most elaborate poem, The Dunciad, has a good claim to be the greatest unread poem in the language. —
- — place the pauses in his lines in different places and you get different poems, like removing the dashes from Emily Dickinson’s poems —
“Guns buried in flowers” is how Schumann described them.
ha.
ps. I hope you moms have a nice Mother’s Day today.
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