- — SPOON RIVER POET CALLED GREAT; Famous English Critic Lifts Edgar Lee Masters from Chicago Obscurity to the High Peak of Parnassus. SPOON RIVER POET CALLED GREAT April 4, 1915, Sunday —
- — Jee Leong Koh is the author of two books of poems, Payday Loans and Equal to the Earth (Bench Press). His poetry has appeared in Best New Poets and Best Gay Poetry, and in PN Review, as well as other journals. —
- — 12 or 20 questions: with Charles Bernstein —
- — Weekly Poem: ‘Living Room’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS Andrea Hollander Budy [mp3] —
- — Why are all the best poems sad? —
- — Words in pictures: the text big thing —
- — Curious about the relationship of submissions to acceptances, I have examined the results and discovered that a little more than three-fourths of the works appearing in the most recent issues of VPR were submitted electronically, indicating there is no subconscious editorial bias toward either form of submission. —
- — A sarcophagus in an English parish church could solve the centuries-old literary debate over who really wrote the plays of William Shakespeare. —
- — Oprah’s $1 trillion lawsuit dismissed —
- — The Web has been a great platform for writers, especially for those who do it for all the wrong reasons. —
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- — A HUMAN ANTHOLOGY OF SPOON RIVER; An Entertaining Comedie Humaine of Village Life as One Finds It in the United States Furnished in a Volume of Vers Libre by Edgar Lee Masters THE SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY. By Edgar Lee Masters. Macmillan Company. $1.25. July 18, 1915, Sunday Section: Review of Books, —
- — Her Mule, Count No-Count’s Steam Locomotive —
- — The World’s Oldest Basketball Shoes! —
- — The Creative Process: Painting, Writing, and the Case for Ruthlessness —
- — William Orbit, the Grammy award-winning producer and composer who collaborated on hit albums with Blur and Madonna, is to give a live performance of his new setting of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s epic poem In Memoriam on BBC Radio 3 on Friday night. —
- — Poetry? Dead? Naaaah… —
- — Meet the authors to be featured at Clarksville Writer’s Conference —
- — Female touch in Prince of Poets competition —
- — The three Australian dinosaurs were named after Banjo Paterson and characters in his poetry, because he is said to have composed Waltzing Matilda in Winton —
- — Mystery tiles in St. Louis covered in asphalt —
- — Chapter by short chapter – they are hilariously vicious – Pope praises poets’ mediocrity, giving examples of their abuses of rhetoric and their bad verse. —
- — Picador published his selected poems here in Britain in 2000 under the title Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes —
- — Solution to a Longtime Mystery in Utah Is Questioned —
- — The Land and Words of Mary Oliver, the Bard of Provincetown —
- — Ten of the best shipwrecks —
- — Discovery of a previously unknown song cycle adds to our knowledge of composer Franz Liszt —
- — A writer’s meditation on a Japanese poet-priest springs from an unexpected, private source of inspiration. —
- — Ernie Harwell: Questions remain about fake Cobb diary —
- — “Don’t you feel bad that you made fun of Michael Jackson after hearing the tragic news of his death? “ —
- — ‘American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry’ takes 73 different directions —
- — Detroit Writers’ Guild produces new poetry CD —
Cool painting. Originally saw it here thank you. Info about the painting.
