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Robert Frost

A Poet's Christmas List

John Lundberg | Posted 12.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Robert Frost, Holiday Seasonm Holidays, Poets, Knopf, Wallace Stevens, David Starkey, Poem, Poetry, Christmas, Living News
John Lundberg

David Starkey of the Santa Barbara Independent listed ten poetry books he finds fit for giving this season. The new Wallace Stevens collection stands out for me.

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Poetry's Decline?

Carol Hoenig | Posted 11.18.2009 | Books

Read More: Robert Frost, Children, Poetry, Linda Winston, Mom, Joyce Kilmer, Mary Ann Hoberman, Tree That Time Built, Poet Laureate, Felice Holman, Children's Poetry, Reciting Poetry, Books, Children's Books, Books News
Carol Hoenig

I'm sure I'd leafed through The Children's First Book of Poetry when I was a child, but it was more the memory of my mother reciting any number of poems that I cherished.

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Super Poems: Other Comic Books Inspired by Verse

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 10.13.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Alexander Pope, The Hollow Men, W.H. Auden, The Imperfect Enjoyment, The Tiger, Betty and Veronica, Spiderman, Road-Not-Taken, William Blake, John Milton, The Fantastic Four, Lord Rochester, Iron Man, Cats, Robert Frost, Archie Comics, Human Torch, Captain American, T.S. Eliot, Calvin and Hobbes, The Waste Land, On His Blindness, Jonathan Swift, World War II, Dr. Arbuthnot, Batman, The Green Lantern, Achilles, Comics, Comedy News
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

In a plot line inspired by Robert Frost's poem "Road Not Taken," fictional character Archie Andrews has already proposed to Veronica and will propose to Betty next month. I wonder what it would be like if other comics were inspired by poems...

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A Glimpse of Life's Journey

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Life's Journey, Robert Frost, Life, Susan Smalley, Living News
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

Mostly I travel alone but at times I carried a backpack full of seedlings needing nourishment or I would walk hand in hand with another experiencing the road ever so slightly different.

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A Villanelle to Oxford Skullduggery

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 06.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke, W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, Oxford, Elizabeth Bishop, Villanelle, The Poetic Life, Living News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

With apologies to every proper Villanelle ever written.

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AIG and the 'Road Not Taken'

Brian Shott | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Melissa Etheridge, Robert Frost, AIG Bonus, M. Scott Peck, Aig, Barack Obama, Road Not Taken, Business News
Brian Shott

What does Robert Frost's famous poem have to do with the insurance giant, anyway?

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Reflections on "The Poem"

Ben Rosen | Posted 02.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Robert Frost, Elizabeth Alexander, Inauguration Poem, Jfk Inauguration, Obama's Inauguration, Elizabeth Alexander Poet, Inauguration Day 2009, Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama Inauguration, Poetry, Elizabeth Alexander Poetry, Obama Inauguration Day, Obama Elizabeth Alexander, Elizabeth Alexander Inaugural Poem, Inauguration, John F. Kennedy Inaugural, Jfk, Living News
Ben Rosen

Let's compare Elizabeth Alexander's poem with one written for an earlier president. I dug up the 77-line poem, "Dedication", that Robert Frost wrote for JFK's 1961 inauguration.

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The Irrepressible Hope of a New Year

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 01.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Frost, 2009 Predictions, 2009 Economy, Barack Obama, Recession, Inauguration, New Year's Commentary, Politics News
Madeleine M. Kunin

When friends and strangers greet each other this final day of the year, we optimistically say, "Happy New Year." This year, we can't wait for the New Year to start and the old year to retire.

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Good Weapons Make Good Neighbors

Steven Crandell | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Frost, Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Mending Wall, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations, US Leadership for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World, Hiroshima, Peace, An Appeal to the Next President, Yasuo Fukuda, Japan, Sadako, Politics News
Steven Crandell

This week marks the 63rd anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and nowhere are people as united as they are in Japan in the conviction that nuclear weapons must never be used again.

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Party At Robert Frost's House!

John Lundberg | Posted 06.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Robert Frost's House, Robert Frost, Underage Drinking and Robert Frost, The Inner Life, Living News
John Lundberg

When about a dozen people--mostly teenagers--showed up at a Middlebury College classroom last week to learn about Robert Frost, they weren't sharing a...

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Robert Frost Home Vandalized In Underage Drinking Party

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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A former home of poet Robert Frost has been vandalized, with intruders destroying dozens of items and setting fire to furniture in what police say was...

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