Literary:
When used deftly, words can be incisive tools of communication. Finding the best word to describe an emotion or idea tumbling around inside of one's brain should be an exciting and rewarding experience. Such mental exercises keep one's wits sharp...
Posted on January 18, 2008 10:21 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Walt Whitman (1819-1892), regarded as one of our nation's greatest poets, broke many barriers with his writing, resulting in criticism, controversy and of course worldwide and everlasting fame. His use of freestyle verse, his audacious (for the times) description of...
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Posted on May 20, 2007 9:19 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Housman self-published his first volume of poetry,
A Shropshire Lad, just as the Boer War (followed by the World War) aroused a haunting urgency for solace in the British people. His volumes began to sell, and Housman's legacy as one of the greatest poets of the 20th century was building.
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Posted on April 15, 2007 8:39 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Before reading the following poem, first take a moment to think of the unexpected events in your life. Think of disappointments and unwanted challenges, of the sudden whirlwind of chaos that blusters and then, as quickly as a traveling storm, rushes past...
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Posted on April 1, 2007 8:50 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There's nothing like falling in love and then dying of consumption to inspire one to write sublimely, if not in a hurry.
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Posted on March 25, 2007 7:37 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Didn't I say, though, that the palace represents more than a joint besieged by the "hideous throng"? If you think you know the answer to the riddle, then...
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Posted on March 4, 2007 7:55 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
One of the amazing facts of his life is that his poetry was published in 1918 - 29 years after his death. Hopkins is considered one of the greatest poets of the Victorian age, and a writer of stunning imagery and radically new versification - all in the name of faith and love.
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Posted on December 23, 2006 9:37 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Anyone who hasn't yet had the pleasure of delving into the complex society of the former residents of Spoon River are missing out on a true gem of literature.
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Posted on December 17, 2006 9:53 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
[Editor's Note: The narrator, in addition to being a day late again, has identified this week's poet by his given name; since most readers won't recognize this we shall provide the poet's nom de plume: Pablo Neruda.] No one would...
Posted on December 11, 2006 2:59 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
He was killed by German machine gun fire on November 4, 1918 while wading across the Sambre-Oise Canal in northern France. His mother received the telegram announcing his death one week later, on Armistice Day.
Posted on November 28, 2006 6:58 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
[Editor's note: The narrator has been begging me for months to let him post some poetry on this site, using the argument that unless we promote the world's greatest poems, the collective I.Q. of this country is going to drop...
Posted on November 19, 2006 8:22 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A chest CT revealed the suspicious lesions, some plastered up against the pleural lining like a mud dauber's nest, some floating in the lung parenchyma like bubbles in the airy meadow.
Posted on November 15, 2006 8:26 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This may sound silly but I believe you aren't a true fan of Hallowe'en unless you stay up really late, turn out all the nights except one, plop yourself down into an old chair right next to a window -...
Posted on October 29, 2006 8:49 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
By linking words together the writer lights an emotional fire under the reader which illuminates the message the writer wishes to convey.
Posted on October 19, 2006 4:34 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Sometimes an illness is hidden behind a mirror that no matter how hard we look shows us only the reflection of our frustrated face.
Posted on August 29, 2006 8:32 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Our will to achieve can never be extinguished until the final human on this magnificent planet falls into the snow - or dust.
Posted on August 1, 2006 8:11 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The diabolical combination that keeps the mysteries of a cancerous cell locked from human view is methodically being deciphered, one number at a time.
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Posted on June 26, 2006 8:00 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer...
Posted on June 14, 2006 8:15 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
