Thursday, April 9, 2009

Poemulations: Emily Dickinson, James Metcalfe & Chum Frink

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On October 17, 1851—as Virginia Jackson notes in her great book Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading —Emily Dickinson wrote a ...
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Thursday, April 2, 2009

A Gallery of Suffragist Poetry

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For the work of a day, For the taxes we pay, For the Laws we obey, We want something to say. This is pretty heavy work, But I'll never, ...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Thai Firefighter Dresses Up as Spiderman to Coax Eight-Year-Old Boy Off Window Ledge

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Appeared in the Press-Citizen on March 27, 2009 Hero is a word I don’t use lightly. He didn’t grab ahold of me but took the arm of somethi...
Thursday, March 26, 2009

Casey at the Hoop?

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Try as it might to resist the media frenzy surrounding the annual NCAA basketball tournament, Poetry & Popular Culture can't help b...
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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Guest Posting: The Poetry of Patchwork

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Reading between the lines of text and textile, Poetry & Popular Culture correspondent Adam Bradford writes in about mid-19th-century mo...
Thursday, March 12, 2009

Christmas 1921: Fred & Myrtle's Scrapbook

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For Christmas in 1921, Myrtle Eckert of Skykomish, Washington, wanted to give her eldest son Fred something special. Born in 1896 or 1897, ...
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Thursday, March 5, 2009

Very Moving Poetry

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If Corn Flakes and Michael Phelps are concerned with ingesting and inhaling (see "What's in Your Bowl Today?" ), then what of ...
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