Poetry & Popular Culture

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Levi Johnston's Racy Playgirl Cover to Hit Newsstands

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Appeared in the Salem Statesman-Journal on February 13, 2010 and the Iowa City Press-Citizen on February 18, 2010 Not to be outplayed by ...
Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Slam, Spoken Word, and the Democratization of Poetry: Melissa Girard Reviews "The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry"

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Melissa Girard is currently teaching at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, just a short train ride south of the windy city where ...
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Saturday, January 30, 2010

The Amazing Poet-Bot

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Sunday, January 24, 2010

William Stafford's Birthday

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During January of 2010, more than 40 events across the United States—and 22 in the Portland area alone— commem- orated the birthday of poet ...
Monday, January 18, 2010

Getting the News from Citizen Kane

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As written and played by Orson Welles in the 1941 classic that many people judge to be the greatest movie ever made, the life of Charles F...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Poetry & Pop Culture Heroes: Firefly, Sci-Fi, & the Latterday Chronicles of Lewis Turco

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In Joss Whedon's short-lived, much- acclaimed, 2002 TV series Firefly , the show's main characters repeatedly refer to "The Un...
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Monday, January 4, 2010

Did Dashiell Hammett Hate Poetry?

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We here at Poetry & Popular Culture might offer a sawbuck for hard evidence to prove it, because we think he did—hated it like a private...
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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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