Stevens' 'The Death of a Soldier': The Nihilistic Imagination
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Linda Sue Grimes
Crane's 'The Wayfarer': And Other Versanelles
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Whitman's Learn'd Astronomer: Thought vs Feeling
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Emily Dickinson: Religious Exile? Images of Religious Exclusion in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson
Dickinson's 'Each Life Converges': The Journey of the Soul
By: Linda Sue Grimes
D. C. Berry's Fishy Metaphor: ‘On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High’
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Yogananda's 'The Cup of Eternity': Attaining Bliss
By: Linda Sue Grimes
March Poet – Lawrence Ferlinghetti: 'Constantly risking absurdity'
By: Linda Sue Grimes
The Reclusive Emily Dickinson: Why the 19th Century American Poet's Isolation is Understandable
April Poet – Etheridge Knight: Transcending Prison
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Kenneth Fearing: Biography: American Poet and Author of The Big Clock
By: Meg Nola
The Last Time We Were Children: Penny J. Johnson’s Debut Book of Poetry
By: Melissa Howard
Sedam's 'Desafinado': Ginsberg’s Irrelevance
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Poetry, Politics and the Writer: Adrienne Rich's "What is Found There: Notes on Poetry and Politics"
By: Jessica Slentz
Sandburg's 'Young Sea': Metaphors to Nowhere
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Robert Frost's 'A Soldier': An English/Italian Sonnet
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Malcolm M. Sedam: Fighter Pilot, Businessman, Teacher, Poet
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Lew Welch: Biography: Beat Generation Poet and Author of Ring of Bone
By: Meg Nola
Jamison's 'The Negro Soldiers': Roscoe C. Jamision Writes About Freedom and Sacrifice
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Kizer’s ‘Night Sounds’: Alone and Awake
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Komunyakaa’s ‘Pride’: From Talking Dirty to the Gods
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Ann Stanford’s ‘The Beating’: Gaining One White Thought
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Rethinking Cummings' Poem: 'somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond'
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Dickinson’s Winter Welcome: 'Winter is good — his Hoar delights’
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Robinson Jeffers Resurrected: Poet of the Wilderness
By: Catherine Owen
Yogananda’s ‘City Drum’: The Miracle of a New Day
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Robert Frost: The Most of It: Making the Most of Life
Amy Lowell’s ‘Fireworks’: Colors and Shapes of Rage
By: Linda Sue Grimes
William Stafford’s Dead Doe: 'Traveling through the Dark'
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Abe Lincoln as Poet: 'My Childhood Home I See Again'
By: Linda Sue Grimes
January Poet-Paramahansa Yogananda: Pilgrim Poem 'On Coming to the New-Old Land—America'
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Dickinson’s Winter: ‘Like Brooms of Steel’
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Slouching Toward Nirvana: Bukowski's Book Includes Reflections on His Place in Literature.
The Sundays of Satin Legs Smith: A Look at the Element of Voice in Brooks' Poem
Brink Road and Postmodernism: A.R. Ammons' last Book of Poems Explores his Relationship to Nature
Dickinson's Slant of Light: Intuition Through Winter Melancholy
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Bryant’s ‘The Murdered Traveller’: An Unsolved Mystery
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Poet Laureate Loses Laureateship: Amiri Baraka's “Somebody Blew Up America”
By: Linda Sue Grimes
A Flawed Love Poem: E. E. Cummings’ ‘somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond’
By: Linda Sue Grimes
December Poet – Emily Dickinson: Dickinson’s ‘’Twas just this time, last year, I died’
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Wilbur’s ‘A Late Aubade’: Carpe Diem and Imagery Theme Strong in Poem
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Whittier’s ‘The Pumpkin’: Allusion and Pumpkin Pie in Whittier's Poem
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Robert Frost: Hyla Brook: We Love the Things We Love for What They Are
Eliot’s ‘Preludes’: Paint it Ugly in Four Parts
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Sharon Olds’ ‘The Victims’: A Failed Poem
By: Linda Sue Grimes
November Poet – Vachel Lindsay: ‘Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight’
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Tricked by J. Alfred Prufrock: Learn to Laugh
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Whitman's 'Reconciliation': Loving One's Enemies
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Tricked by Robert Frost: New Article Series
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Frost’s ‘The Witch of Coös’: Bones in the Attic
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Robert Frost's Golden Moments: 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Farmer/Poet Frost: Analysis of Robert Frost's ‘Putting in the Seed’
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Dickinson’s ‘I heard a Fly buzz': Mystical Adeptness
By: Linda Sue Grimes
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Reading the Cantos as a Troubadour: A Look into the Diverse Realms of Ezra Pound's Poetry
Plight of the Troubadour: Language, Confusion and Betrayal in Billy Collins' Poem
By: Jem Bloomfield
Witter Bynner: American Poet and Founder of The Witter Bynner Poetry Foundation
By: Meg Nola
‘Success is counted sweetest’: A Loser’s Comprehension
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Eliot’s Rhapsody on a Windy Night: Deconstructing the City
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Frost’s ‘Birches’: Going Toward Heaven
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Amy Lowell’s ‘A Fixed Idea’: Italian Sonnet of Torture
By: Linda Sue Grimes
By: Linda Sue Grimes
The Spectra Poems: Literary Spoof and Scandal
By: Meg Nola
Charles Simic: New U.S. Poet Laureate
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Jim Carroll: The Punk Poet Prodigy
E. E. Cummings: Innovative, Spiritual Poet
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Amy Lowell’s ‘Penumbra’: An After Death Presence
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Riley’s 'The Old Swimmin’-Hole': Nostalgia and Summer
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Whittier’s ‘The Barefoot Boy’: Boyhood in Summer
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Frost’s ‘The Oven Bird’: Decay in the Lush Midst
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Dickinson’s Summer: ‘I know a place where Summer strives’
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Forché’s ‘Poem for Maya’: Delusion for a Friend
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Marianne Moore’s ‘Poetry’: Poets on Poetry
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Barbara Guest’s ‘A Way of Being’: Being a Way
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Frost's 'War Thoughts at Home': Poetic Notes
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Bryant’s 'The Yellow Violet': A Lesson in Humility
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Louise Glück’s ‘The Pond’: Nightmares and Blood
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Robert Frost’s ‘Bereft’: Hissing Leaves
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Clifton’s ‘homage to my hips’: Celebrating Big Hips
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Hughes’ ‘Theme for English B’: Writing What is True
By: Linda Sue Grimes
'The Ballad of the Girlie Man': Bernstein’s Political Propaganda
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Prufrock’s Love Song: A Funny Poem
By: Linda Sue Grimes
‘A Bird came down the Walk': Dickinson’s Frightened Beads
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Philip Freneau: Poetry and Politics
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Rod McKuen: Songwriter and Poetaster
By: Linda Sue Grimes
The Vain Peaceful Noise: A Thoreauvian Complaint
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Whitman’s ‘I Hear America Singing’: An American Tribute
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Frost’s 'Mending Wall': 'Good fences make good neighbors'
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Dickinson’s Spiritual Intoxication: ‘I taste a liquor never brewed’
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Sara Teasdale’s ‘To E.’: A Petrarchan Sonnet
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Dickinson’s Riddles: “It sifts from leaden sieves” and “I like to see it lap the miles”
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Anne Bradstreet’s ‘Contemplations’: Musing on Nature, Man, and God
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Ella Wheeler Wilcox: A Popular Poet
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Father Hopkins’ Sonnet: Exploring “God’s Grandeur”
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Piercy’s ‘Barbie Doll’: Dying to Fit In
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Wheatley’s Classical Influence: Phillis Wheatley’s ‘An Hymn to the Morning’
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Plath’s ‘Morning Song’: Child as Statue
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Elinor Wylie: Worthy Poems Despite Flamboyant Life
By: Linda Sue Grimes
Lazarus’ 'The New Colossus': A Cultural Heritage
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Plath’s ‘Daddy’: Killing the Dead
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