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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

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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The Failure of Filters -- Why We're Getting Dumber by the Hour

Gerald Sindell | Posted 09.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Bertelsmann, Book Clubs, Scouts, Oprah, Filters, W.H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, Book Reviews, Finland, Oprah's Book Club, Lionel Trilling, Readers' Subscription, Stravinsky, Media News

The expectation that most of the audience would rush out and purchase the book, as Oprah's audience does today, was not there. With a good book reviewer, you didn't need to do any page turning yourself.

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September 1, 2099

Gershon Hepner | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: W.H. Auden, World War II, Politics News

Of all days this one was the worst, '39, September 1st, when hell began to hit the fan, resuscitating ancient hate to undermine the status quo like ancient walls of Jericho.

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The Uses of Poetry

Daniel Krotz | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Daniel Krotz, Berryville, W.H. Auden, John Milton, Bookseller, David Zimmerman, Poetry, Arkansas, Living News

Fifty years after I found myself begging in London, I continue to find poetry useful.

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Do Atheists Borrow Religion's Morality?

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 08.18.2009 | Living

Read More: New Atheists, Atheism, Duke Ellington, Nazis, Sam Harris, Ethics, Ts Eliot, Richard Rorty, Morality, Picasso, Richard Dawkins, Wh Auden, Vivaldi, Peter Singer, Living News

If you deprive people of the solace of a moral system of meaningful connection with something bigger than themselves, you aren't just stripping away window dressing, but demolishing the supporting structure of a happy life

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Harold Norse, R.I.P.

Jan Herman | Posted 07.17.2009 | Living

Read More: William Carlos Williams, Gregory Corso, Anais Nin, Beat Generation, W.H. Auden, James Baldwin, Harold Norse, Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Poetry, Memoirs of a Bastard Angel, Hotel Nirvana, City Lights, Living News

He said he was a poet, too. I no longer recall what we talked about, but it didn't take long for him to invite me back to his room at 9 rue Git-le-Coeur, the so-called Beat Hotel.

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Tales of the Real-Life Sex Workers Part II; Or, Wherein Our Prediction About Xaviera Hollander Was Affirmed

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 08.14.2008 | Media

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We wrote last week of the Eliot Spitzer scandal side media trend of examining the lives of actual prostitutes and the phenomenon of prostitution in ge...

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