Poetry & Popular Culture

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Poetry Out Loud 2015

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On Saturday, March 14, Willamette University once again played host to the final round of Oregon's Poetry Out Loud state competition...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Daring Greatly: The Poetry of Cadillac and Teddy Roosevelt

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Imagine our surprise to find a poem (pictured here) as the primary text in a full-page ad for Cadillac gracing the back cover of the the F...
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Friday, February 27, 2015

Why Audiences Matter: Lorelai's Version of "I Will Always Love You" (Season 7, Episode 20 [May 1, 2007])

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In the final season of the Gilmore Girls , Lorelai sets out to sing Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" to her daughter Ro...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

Adapting Tennyson: D.W. Griffith's "Enoch Arden" (1911)

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Saturday, February 7, 2015

"I don't know why a cow goes moo": The Love Poetry of "Silver Spoons"

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Check out the following episode of Silver Spoons (Season 1, Episode 5 [October 23, 1982], "Takin' a Chance on Love") in whi...
Saturday, January 31, 2015

"A Glee for Mixed Voices": W.K. Kellogg's "Funny Jungleland Moving-Pictures" and the Poetry of Corn Flakes

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If you're a regular P&PC reader, then you know that we and the office interns have been thinking a lot lately not just about poet...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Rob Lowe Reads James Franco's Poetry on Conan

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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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