Poems

Why Don't Poems Rhyme Anymore?

John Lundberg | Posted 04.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Free Verse Poetry, Poems, Williams Carlos Williams, Queen's English Society, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Poetry, Qes, Living News
John Lundberg

The Queen's English Society may sound like the name of a Monty Python sketch, but I assure you it's very real. The group aims to protect "the beauty ...

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Son2Mother

Kevin Powell | Posted 03.17.2008 | Entertainment

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Kevin Powell

And, yes, I am crying this second, mother, As I write this poem Because I see you today: A retired Black woman with a limp, a bad leg, Shuffling up and down three flights of stairs.

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Our Greatest Poet Inducted Into Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame!

Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.12.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Madonna, Hall of Game, Leonard Cohen, Poems, Rock 'N Roll, Bono, Poets, Iraq, Rock, Poetry, Lou Reed, Entertainment News
Greg Mitchell

Leonard Cohen, one of the few true poets to ever cross the musical charts called his induction into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame on Monday night an "unlikely" event, surely the understatement of the week.

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Poem of the Week No. 4: A.E. Housman

John Lundberg | Posted 11.10.2007 | Living

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John Lundberg

"To An Athlete Dying Young" is Housman's best-known poem, and you've likely come across it before. On the surface, the poem is an elegy with a straightforward theme, yet the poem's real power is beneath the surface.

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Entertaining Ourselves -- What Shall We Do?

Leslie Griffith | Posted 11.08.2007 | Entertainment

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Leslie Griffith

Hollywood's writers are quiet and still; Perhaps it's time to pay the democracy bill.

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Poem of the Week No. 3: Lewis Carroll

John Lundberg | Posted 10.20.2007 | Living

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John Lundberg

Carroll's poems are proof of a couple of things: 1) a poem doesn't have to make sense to be enjoyable; and 2) they had mind-altering drugs in Victorian England.

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