Nov 20, 2009
Rich's Diving into the Wreck: Myth-Making
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Nov 19, 2009
Louis Zukofsky and the Objectified Poem: Semantic Properties of Formal Poetic Structure
By: Jim Benz
Nov 19, 2009
Masters' Hod Putt: Morally Equivalent at Last
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Nov 18, 2009
Kooser's Tattoo: Sagging Dagger-through-Heart
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Nov 17, 2009
Masters' The Hill: Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Nov 14, 2009
Dickinson's Two Butterflies went out at Noon: A Mystical Flight
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Nov 13, 2009
Garrison's "Bach in the Subway": Drowning in Imagination
By: Matthew Birdsall
Nov 11, 2009
Bryant's The Gladness of Nature: As the Day Smiles
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Nov 10, 2009
Frost's Acquainted with the Night: The Neutrality of Time
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Nov 7, 2009
Richard Wilbur's Mind: Flying Through the Dark
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Nov 6, 2009
Joseph Brodsky's "A Polar Explorer": Making Decisions Without Choices
By: Matthew Birdsall
Nov 6, 2009
Oliver's Reckless Poem: Reincarnational Intimations
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Nov 3, 2009
Hayden's American Journal: The Quiddity of American Exceptionalism
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Oct 30, 2009
Donald Hall Chronicle of Causality: Coital Consequences
By: Matthew Birdsall
Oct 23, 2009
Levine's "Animals Are Passing From Our Lives": Who Has Dignity?
By: Matthew Birdsall
Oct 20, 2009
Angelou's Touched by an Angel: We, unaccustomed to courage
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Oct 16, 2009
Kunitz's "The Portrait": Father, Mother, Son are One
By: Matthew Birdsall
Oct 12, 2009
Kinnell's Blackberry Eating: Delicious Words on the Tongue
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Oct 7, 2009
William Bronk – Oh What a Relief He Is: The Poet’s Life Work Goes Against the Grain of Much Recent Poetry
By: Douglas Nordfors
Oct 7, 2009
Ted Kooser's "Tattoo": Even Ink Comes out in the Wash
By: Matthew Birdsall
Oct 6, 2009
Character Development in "The Mountain": Robert Frost Paints the Narrator as a Keen Observer Though His Story
By: David Todd
Oct 4, 2009
The Mountain by Robert Frost: What is the Farmer Hoping to Accomplish?
By: David Todd
Sep 30, 2009
Auden's The Unknown Citizen: Scathing Satire of Conformity
By: Matthew Birdsall
Sep 29, 2009
When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd: A Short Commentary on Walt Whitman’s Poem
By: Paul-John Ramos
Sep 28, 2009
Kay Ryan's Home to Roost: A Clever, Little Ditty
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Sep 25, 2009
Metaphors by Sylvia Plath – Layers of Meaning: A Detailed Look at Layered Allusion in This Pregnancy Poem
By: James Parsons
Sep 25, 2009
Metaphors by Sylvia Plath is a Riddle Poem: Plath's Light-hearted Intention is Flagged by Genre Choice
By: James Parsons
Sep 25, 2009
Analysis of Robert Frost's The Mountain: A Blank Verse Poem From North of Boston Demonstrates Many Techniques
By: David Todd
Sep 25, 2009
Metaphors by Sylvia Plath Not Bitter and Gloomy: Plath's Fun Riddle is the Best of Pregnancy Poems
By: James Parsons
Sep 22, 2009
Neruda's Sonnet 73: You will perhaps recall that pointed man
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Sep 19, 2009
Brooks' the vacant lot: A Joyful Absence
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Sep 18, 2009
Edgar Allan Poe – Two Life and Death Poems: The Conqueror Worm and "Alone"
By: Martin G. Wood
Sep 18, 2009
David Kirby's "Monte": The Solution in the Mistake
By: Matthew Birdsall
Sep 11, 2009
Louise Gluck – Two Poems: Gretel in Darkness – Mock Orange – A Fable and an Ill-Fated Union
By: Martin G. Wood
Sep 9, 2009
Two Poems by George Washington: Young Love
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Sep 8, 2009
Collins' The Golden Years: Musing for Amusement
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Sep 7, 2009
Yogananda's Luther Burbank: A Tribute to Accomplishment
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Sep 5, 2009
Carl Sandburg – Four Autumn Poems: Under the Harvest Moon Through Autumn Movement
By: Martin G. Wood
Sep 3, 2009
Jack Myers's "Blindsided": Saving Face in the Face of Adversity
By: Matthew Birdsall
Sep 2, 2009
Hughes' Night Funeral in Harlem: A Question of Love
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Sep 1, 2009
Inseminating the Elephant is a Risky Business: Lucia Perillo's New Book of Poetry Has Its Ups and Downs
By: Douglas Nordfors
Aug 31, 2009
Frost and the Versanelle: Master of Form
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Aug 25, 2009
James Wright's "Beginning": Lean on What You Know
By: Matthew Birdsall
Aug 25, 2009
Dickinson's Color—Caste—Denomination: The Futility of Human Classification
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Aug 24, 2009
Winch's Social Security: No Safety Nowadays
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Aug 20, 2009
Tony Hoagland's "Leaving Yourself Behind": The Humor of Gravity
By: Matthew Birdsall
Aug 20, 2009
Frost's The Freedom of the Moon: The Greatness of Human Free Will
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Aug 19, 2009
Billy Collins's Aubade: Who's Listening at Dawn?
By: Matthew Birdsall
Aug 19, 2009
Dickinson's I measure every Grief I meet: The Way of Suffering
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Aug 15, 2009
Dickinson's After great pain: A Sculpture of Suffering
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Aug 12, 2009
The Mind-Body Problem is a Joy: Katha Pollitt's New Book of Poetry is a Must Read
By: Douglas Nordfors
Aug 11, 2009
Charles Simic's Fork: Portrayals of Violence in Contemporary Poetry
By: Matthew Van Cura
Aug 4, 2009
Stephen Dobyns's Uprising: A Call to Harms
By: Matthew Birdsall
Aug 3, 2009
Elegy and Celebration in the Napa Valley: A Reading by Inaugural Poet Elizabeth Alexander
By: Michael Waterson
Aug 3, 2009
The Death of the Hired Man – Good Blank Verse: Robert Frost Shows Skill With Non-Rhyming Poetry Using Other Devices
By: David Todd
Aug 2, 2009
The Moose by Elizabeth Bishop: Analysis of Figurative Language in Bishop’s Poem
By: Jeris Swanhorst
Aug 1, 2009
Dickinson's As imperceptibly as grief: Musing into Beauty
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Jul 30, 2009
Review – The Notebooks of Robert Frost: Insight Into his Character, Poetry, and Thoughts
By: David Todd
Jul 29, 2009
Dunn's "Tucson": The Fate of Desire
By: Matthew Birdsall
Jul 29, 2009
Johnson's Mother Night: God as Divine Mother
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Jul 25, 2009
Self-Publishing in the Early Twentieth Century: William E. Dimorier Was High School Principal and Unknown Poet
By: Ann Silverthorn
Jul 24, 2009
The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Robinson Jeffers: His Unusual Legacy From Tamar to The Double Axe
By: Paul-John Ramos
Jul 22, 2009
Rules of Sleep: Do Bodies at Rest Ever Stop?
By: Matthew Birdsall
Jul 20, 2009
Character Development The Death of the Hired Man: Robert Frost’s Poem Shows How Blank Verse Can be Effective
By: David Todd
Jul 20, 2009
Ferlinghetti's In Goya's Greatest Scenes We Seem: The Art of Exaggeration
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Jul 17, 2009
The Death of the Hired Man – an Overview: Robert Frost Shows His Skill in Conversational Blank Verse
By: David Todd
Jul 12, 2009
Frost Joins Form and Meaning in Into My Own: Rhyme and Meter and Form Work Together to Enhance Reading Enjoyment
By: David Todd
Jul 10, 2009
Simic's My Shoes: Post-postmodern Trivial Nonsense
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Jul 7, 2009
How Robert Frost Wrote His Poems: Observation and Internal Processing Resulted in Frost's Compositions
By: David Todd
Jul 7, 2009
Wilbur's Mind: Flying Thoughts
By: Matthew Birdsall
Jul 5, 2009
Book Review – Richard Hugo's The Triggering Town: A Classic Book of Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
By: Ryan Werner
Jul 5, 2009
Dickinson's There is another sky: Another World Created by Art
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Jul 4, 2009
Whitman's Song of the Banner at Daybreak: The Patriot’s Symbol
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Jun 30, 2009
Word Choices Distinguish Into My Own: Robert Frost Demonstrates Mastery of More Poetic Devices
By: David Todd
Jun 25, 2009
Imagery and Metaphor in Into My Own: Robert Frost's Poetic Techniques Enhance the Eternal Message
By: David Todd
Jun 24, 2009
Delmore Schwartz is Worth Another Look: The Once Famous Poet Seems to Have Disappeared – Why?
By: Douglas Nordfors
Jun 23, 2009
Robert Frost's Into My Own: An Overview of One of Frost’s Early Poems
By: David Todd
Jun 18, 2009
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: T.S. Eliot's Imagery and Use of Description in His Poetry
By: Margaret Langner
Jun 18, 2009
Scary Movies – A Poem: Kim Addonizio's Chilling Homage to Cinema That Haunts the Soul
By: Martin G. Wood
Jun 10, 2009
Understanding Frost's Imagery and Naturalism: Examples From Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
By: Margaret Langner
Jun 10, 2009
Charles Simic's Empire of Dreams: Character Without Compromise
By: Matthew Birdsall
Jun 10, 2009
Simic's Empire of Dreams: Resilient Character
By: Matthew Birdsall
Jun 9, 2009
Sandburg's Chicago: A Hulking Man of Steel
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Jun 8, 2009
Robert Frost's Acquainted With the Night: Imagery, Themes, and Meaning in Frost’s Poem
By: Jeris Swanhorst
Jun 7, 2009
Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee: Death Rimes With Love
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Jun 5, 2009
Turner's Here, Bullet: Fear and Transformation
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Jun 3, 2009
Poet for June – James Weldon Johnson: Listen, Lord A Prayer
By: Linda Sue Grimes
May 28, 2009
Frost's A Girl's Garden: Memory Lane
By: Linda Sue Grimes
May 27, 2009
Pictures From Brueghel: Ekphrastic and Other Poems by William Carlos Williams
By: Theresa Ann White
May 26, 2009
Williams' Proletarian Portrait: Capitalizing on the Marxist Mystique
By: Linda Sue Grimes
May 23, 2009
Ginsberg - A Study of the Footnote to Howl: A Brief Look at the Final Part of the Beat Writers Apocalyptic Poem
By: Holly Thacker
May 23, 2009
Dobyns' How to Like It: After Outliving One’s Enthusiasm
By: Linda Sue Grimes
May 21, 2009
Tony Hoagland: American Poet and Writer
By: Sarah Scott
May 21, 2009
Understanding the Poetry of Robert Frost: An Introductory Guide to Analyzing Frost’s Poems
By: Jeris Swanhorst
May 18, 2009
Monica Youn – Two Poems: Stealing The Scream – Venice, Unaccompanied
By: Martin G. Wood
May 14, 2009
Mark Strand's Prediction: We Are Mortal
By: Matthew Birdsall
May 12, 2009
Bad River Road Follows Tradition: Debra Nystrom's Skillful Autobiographical Poetry
By: Douglas Nordfors
May 8, 2009
Book Review – Ultramarine by Raymond Carver: Subpar Poetry by the Late, Acclaimed Short-Story Writer
By: Ryan Werner
May 8, 2009
Updike's Evening Concert: Light and Sound Creatively Commingle
By: Matthew Birdsall
May 8, 2009
Dorothy Parker – Four Poems on Death: The Audacious Poet Harbored a Morbid Fascination
By: Martin G. Wood
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