Poetry & Popular Culture

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Dinosaur Descendant to be Dad at 111

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Appeared in the Press-Citizen on August 19, 2008. And the paparazzi jump to search their files for other famous moms and dads, and to the An...
Monday, August 18, 2008

Corny Verse?

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Given my recent focus on the Fireside Poets Longfellow and Holmes—and given the time of year here in Iowa, when the corn is rolling in and t...
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Thursday, August 14, 2008

Freaking Out about "Freaked"

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This has been a freaky week for your favorite Poetry & Popular Culture blog, which accidentally helped to create what one reader called ...
Saturday, August 9, 2008

J.T. Dutton's "Freaked"

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Ezra Pound famously wrote that poetry should be as well-written as prose. Judging from the evidence, American novelists appear to believe t...
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Monday, August 4, 2008

Projected Verse

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Long before Charles Olsen wrote "Projective Verse" (1950), Americans were projecting their own poetry onto walls, sheets, movie sc...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Obama's Bitter Muse: Frank M. Davis

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The following article—by yours truly—first appeared in the Iowa City Press-Citizen and The Des Moines Register on Wednesday, April 30, 2008....
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Friday, July 25, 2008

Cheeni Rao's "In Hanuman's Hands"

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Here's a hilarious excerpt from "In Hanuman's Hands: A Memoir of Recovery and Redemption" by Srinivas (Cheeni) Rao, in the...
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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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