Poetry & Popular Culture

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Moo-ving Verse: The Poetry of Rod's Steakhouse

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A couple of weeks ago, P&PC brought you the matchbook poem- ulations of El Fenix Cafe in Texas—the oldest Mexican restaurant chain in ...
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Friday, September 7, 2012

The Poetry of Laverne & Shirley

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Thursday, August 30, 2012

P&PC Book Review: How Did Poetry Survive? The Making of Modern American Verse, by John Timberman Newcomb

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Regardless of how you feel about the particular narratives in his histories of American poetry—and for P&PC they can be a bit of a m...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Potato Farmer Poetry

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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Loving Comic Strips, Theatre, Movies, Poetry and Sex: The Correspondence of Ray Bradbury and William R. Cox

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P&PC recently spent some time at the University of Oregon's Knight Library digging around the papers of Ethel Romig Fuller —a wid...
Monday, August 6, 2012

Restauranteurs & Poets: Miguel Martinez & James J. Metcalfe

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Check out the story behind this 1950s-era promotional matchbook for El Fenix Cafe —currently (according to El Fenix) the oldest Mexican re...
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Friday, July 27, 2012

From the P&PC Vault: The Poetry of Michael Phelps

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Boy, can London do the Olympics right or what? Olympic Park is decorated with permanent poem monuments like the sweet-looking one by Car...
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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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