About PoetryPoetryMisprints Are they serendipity, inspiration or embarrassment- May 28, 2008 Curiouser and curiouser.... Ive exchanged some further correspondence with Lia Booth, the lit student who alerted us to our replication of an old misprint in W.B. Yeats poem Among School...http://poetry.about.com/b/2008/05/28/misprints-are-they-serendipity-inspiration-or-embarra... Every Letter Counts- May 27, 2008 Today we received a note from a student of textual analysis that sent me scurrying to my bookshelf to check the text of a poem weve posted in our About...http://poetry.about.com/b/2008/05/27/every-letter-counts.htm For Memorial Day Poems of War and Remembrance- May 22, 2008 For Memorial Day, weve expanded our anthology of classic war poems. For your wartime reading and reflection, and in remembrance of those who gave their lives in the many wars...http://poetry.about.com/b/2008/05/22/for-memorial-day-poems-of-war-and-remembrance.htm McGonagall The boos turn into posthumous pounds sterling- May 19, 2008 During his lifetime William Topaz McGonagall was often subjected to boos and thrown tomatoes when he declaimed his poetry in his native Dundee, Scotland. And since his death, he has...http://poetry.about.com/b/2008/05/19/mcgonagall-the-boos-turn-into-posthumous-pounds-sterl... Triolets Short but not simple- May 15, 2008 Our National Poetry Month project of sending out sonnets and other daily poems prompted me to dig around in the traditional poetic forms, and Ive been playing with a new...http://poetry.about.com/b/2008/05/15/triolets-short-but-not-simple.htm |