Saturday, April 24, 2010

Remembering The New Northwest: The Perplexed Housekeeper

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May 5 of this year will be the 139th Anniversary of the first edition of The New Northwest —the weekly suffragist and reform-oriented newspa...
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Friday, April 16, 2010

Cultures of Folk Poetry

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This week, the P&PC office took up a collection in order to send a repre- sentative to the 2010 meeting of the Western States Folklore ...
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Friday, April 9, 2010

The Book of the Undead, Part One: Ce Rosenow Reviews Ryan Mecum's Zombie Haiku

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Jane Austen has met the zombie. So has Abraham Lincoln . The Poetry & Popular Culture Office has been nearly, uh, dying to know what ...
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Friday, April 2, 2010

Poetry Outlaws: Black Bart, the P o 8

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Two weeks ago , P&PC spent some time thinking about how the films The Contract and The Long Hot Summer cast poetry as a criminal acti...
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Friday, March 26, 2010

Finding Edith Granger

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Regular readers of this blog will remember how, half a year back, we did an interview with Tessa Kale, current editor of the Columbia Grang...
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Friday, March 19, 2010

When the Cat's Away, the Mice Read Poetry: The Case of The Long Hot Summer

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In the 2006 Bruce Beresford flick The Contract , Ray Keene (played by John Cusack) is an unsuc-cessful father who, out on a camping trip wit...
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Friday, March 12, 2010

Something to Chew On: Scary Babies, Big Tobacco

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Poetry & Popular Culture came across this goody the other day and initially planned to save it for later. Impatience has gotten the be...