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Thursday, April 7, 2011

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Salem, Oregon, United States
Further thoughts on the intersection of poetry and popular culture: this being a record of one man's journey into good bad poetry, not-so-good poetry, commercial poetries, ordinary readers, puns, newspaper poetries, and other instances of poetic language or linguistic insight across multiple media in American culture primarily but not solely since the Civil War
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Interesting Resources

  • "Poetries" issue of the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies
  • America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
  • American Poetry in the Age of Whitman and Dickinson
  • American Verse Project
  • Antislavery Poetry at the Antislavery Literature Project
  • Behind the Lines: Poetry, War, & Peacemaking
  • Berton Braley Cyber Museum
  • Brian Reed's "The People, Yes, Thirties Modernism, and the Problem of Bad Political Poetry"
  • Carriers' Addresses @ Brown U.
  • Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
  • Claudia Schaefer-Rodriguez on "Peace, Poetry, and Popular Culture: Ernesto Cardenal and the Nicaraguan Revolution"
  • Common-Place Online Journal
  • Early English Poetry Ballads
  • Edgar Guest Papers at the U of Michigan
  • Emergence of Advertising in America 1850-1920 @ Duke U
  • Emily Dickinson Electronic Archives
  • English Broadside Ballad Archive (including the Pepys Ballad Archive)
  • Favorite Poem Project
  • Fisher Poets Gathering
  • George Orwell on good bad poetry in "Rudyard Kipling"
  • George Orwell's "Poetry and the Microphone"
  • Harris Collection of American Poetry & Plays
  • Harvard Views of Readers, Readership, and Reading History
  • Historic Oregon Newspapers
  • Interview with David Trinidad on "Pop Culture & Poetry"
  • Library of Congress Poetry Resources
  • McGonagall Online
  • Movies with Poetry
  • nano: new american notes online
  • Online Companion to Oxford's Anthology of Modern American Poetry
  • Poetry Foundation's "Poetry in America" Report
  • Poetry Scrapbooks: An Online Archive
  • Silliman's Blog
  • Slate's Bad Poetry Contest
  • The First World War Digital Poetry Archive
  • The Poetess Archive
  • The Poetry Foundation Gets Interested in Good Bad Poetry
  • The Writings on the Stall
  • Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
  • Vowel Movers
  • Walt Whitman Archive
  • What is 'Popular Poetry'? by W.B. Yeats

Oregon Links

  • 150 Books for 150 Years of Statehood
  • Abigail Scott Duniway Papers
  • Airlie Press
  • Blood Orange Review
  • Capital Taps: Fine Beer in Salem
  • Center for Columbia River History
  • Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest
  • Century of Action: Oregon Women Vote 1912-2012
  • Clockworks Cafe & Cultural Center in Salem
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