Poetry & Popular Culture

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

From (Charles Kingsley's) Poem to (D.W. Griffith's) Screen: The Unchanging Sea (1910)

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Monday, January 18, 2016

A Clip from Hiawatha, Directed by Edgar Lewis (1913)

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Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Heading to Texas: P&PC at MLA's Annual Convention

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The good news is that, after five months of being based at the Library of Congress in the nation's capital, P&PC has finally and ...
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Sunday, December 20, 2015

From the P&PC Vault: Getting Ready for Christmas—An Advent Calendar from Hallmark

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It's not the first poem that P&PC ever encountered—that distinction probably goes to the quirky " I went to the animal fair ...
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Saturday, December 19, 2015

From the P&PC Vault: Saint Nick and the Poetry of Santa's Ring Toss

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Nothing dogs the Christmas season at P&PC so much as the clash between the holiday’s commercial and noncommercial aspects—between sho...
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Thursday, December 10, 2015

"When you read page 73, think of me": Robert Frost on The Golden Girls (Season 6, Episode 15 [January 19, 1991])

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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Rhymes, Jingles, and Little Poems: The World War II Rumor Project Collection in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress

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"Rumor," wrote Shakespeare in Henry IV, Part 2 , "is a pipe / Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures / And of so easy ...
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Mike Chasar
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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