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Inside Bright Star 18 Sep 2009 | 09:18 pm
Read about Jane Campion's film Bright Star, chronicling the love affair between John Keat and his neighbor Fanny Brawne, as well as the poems and love letters featured in the biopic.
Poems about Aliens 24 Jul 2009 | 06:03 pm
While it is seems even literary science fiction pieces are rarely categorized as literature, many serious poets have written poems on the topic of life beyond our world.
Paul Lawrence Dunbar: In Summer 24 Jul 2009 | 06:03 pm
Oh, summer has clothed the earth / In a cloak from the loom of the sun! / And a mantle, too, of the skies' soft blue...
Spotlight Poet: Denise Duhamel 24 Jul 2009 | 06:03 pm
The author of numerous books and chapbooks or poetry, Duhamel writes poems that communicate "the ache of human existence."
Poems for Summer 6 Jul 2009 | 06:03 pm
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, / And often is his gold complexion dimmed; / And every fair from fair sometime declines, / By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed...
Spotlight Poet: Susan Wheeler 6 Jul 2009 | 06:03 pm
The author of several books of poetry and a novel, Wheeler writes poems that speak in the "the jangling discourse of our nation."
Poems of the American Revolution 6 Jul 2009 | 06:03 pm
The American Revolution inspired a vast body of literature, much of which attempts to allegorize the fledgling nation's birth and cast its genesis in the language of archetypal struggles and timeless ...
Poetry Resources For Teens 26 Jun 2009 | 06:03 pm
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Poems about Fathers 19 Jun 2009 | 06:03 pm
"It doesn't matter who my father was," Anne Sexton once wrote, "it matters who I remember he was." That memory--of the enormous, perhaps protective, perhaps absent, often mythic man--looms large in po...
Spotlight Audio: Abraham Smith reads "we both split" 19 Jun 2009 | 02:03 pm
like summer melon / hit by a part / from a washing machine
