Poetry & Popular Culture

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Write 'em Cowboy: Lovin' the Lariat Laureates

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You may have missed it—maybe you were distracted by the fuss that the Academy of American Poets kicks up about National Poetry Month out on...
Friday, May 1, 2009

Guest Posting: Khalil Gibran, Local Boy Made Good

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Poetry & Popular Culture correspondent Phil Metres reflects on the life and times of Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran, author of what's ...
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Saturday, April 25, 2009

Poetry in Lotion

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Check out the newest anti-aging treatment to hit the shelves of your local drugstore: DERMAdoctor's " Poetry in Lotion " whic...
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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Poetry & Popular Culture Heroes: Lucas Bernhardt

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In preparation for the 2007-08 basketball season, the Portland Trail Blazers' most prominent fan-blog, Blazer's Edge , elected its f...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Last Voyage for the Keeper of the Hubble

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for John Grunsfeld And as Atlantis opens up its door to float him into space, and as he glides in his bee-suit across the telescope’s sides ...
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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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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