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Walt Whitman's sprawling eight-line poem showcases the poet's freewheeling style while dramatizing the wildly romantic world view portrayed in almost all of his poems. more...
Dickinson's 'Each Life Converges'
The speaker of Emily Dickinson's mystic poem offers a refreshing look at the soul's journey from the astral plane to the physical plane. It also alludes to reincarnation. more...
A fascinating little poem that uses an extended metaphor is D. C. Berry's "On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High." more...
Yogananda's 'The Cup of Eternity'
The omniscient speaker metaphorically compares a thirsty traveler to a spiritual seeker on the path to God-realization. more...
March Poet – Lawrence Ferlinghetti
One might well argue that anyone who writes is "constantly risking absurdity." But Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem dramatizes how especially true it is of the poet. more...
Born April 19, 1931, in Corinth, Mississippi, Knight joined the Army in 1947. He served in Korea, where he suffered shrapnel wounds. He was discharged in 1957. more...
The speaker in Malcolm M. Sedam's "Desafinado" takes the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg to task for what the speaker considers to be devastation to the human soul. more...
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Emily Dickinson: Religious Exile?
The articles analyses images of religious exile and exclusion in the poetry of Emily Dickinson more...
A discussion of American poet Emily Dickinson's reclusive nature as a distraction from the what should be the reader's true focus on her life -- her poetry. more...
By: Meg Nola
Fearing's poetry and writing offer a unique use of language and a glimpse into the darker, quirkier side of 20th century American life. more...
The Last Time We Were Children
By:
Melissa Howard
Penny Johnson's first book of poetry is a personal exploration of life through the small but significant moments of memory. more...
Poetry, Politics and the Writer
By: Jessica Slentz
A lyric and challenging collection of essays by Adrienne Rich, one of America's most influential contemporary poets. more...
By: Meg Nola
Brief biography of the poet and friend of Beat writers Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder. Welch left a suicide note in 1971, then disappeared without a trace. more...
By: Catherine Owen
Robinson Jeffers is an important and still-neglected American poet. His ecological and literary vision of the land was prophetic. He died on January 20th, 1962. more...
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