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Sylvia Plath's Daddy: An Examination of a Father's Influence

By: Jennifer M. Willhite

Emily Dickinson: The Men in Her Life: Friends, Confidants, Mentors or More Intimate Relationships

By: Martha R. Gore

Brian Turner: War Poet's Testimony: Iraq Veteran's Poems Speak With Compassion About War Experience

By: Christine Welter

Highest Honors for Kay Ryan: California Poet Appointed Library of Congress 16th Poet Laureate

By: Christine Welter

Poet Alison Townsend: "The Blue Dress"

By: Jessica Gleason

Poetry and Western Films: The Native American Poetic Response to Movies about the Old West

By: Emily Howson

Louise Erdrich's "Jacklight": Cultural and Societal Boundaries in a Native American Woman's Poem

By: Emily Howson

Desert Passages: Las Vegas Poet Stan Tolpen Creates Second Book Of Poetry

By: Darcy DeMarco

Emily Dickinson: Religious Exile? Images of Religious Exclusion in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson

By: Karen Elizabeth Devlin

The Reclusive Emily Dickinson: Why the 19th Century American Poet's Isolation is Understandable

By: Simon August Thalmann

Kenneth Fearing: Biography: American Poet and Author of The Big Clock

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

The Last Time We Were Children: Penny J. Johnson’s Debut Book of Poetry

By: Feature Writer Melissa Howard

Poetry, Politics and the Writer: Adrienne Rich's "What is Found There: Notes on Poetry and Politics"

By: Jessica Slentz

Lew Welch: Biography: Beat Generation Poet and Author of Ring of Bone

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Robinson Jeffers Resurrected: Poet of the Wilderness

By: Catherine Owen

Robert Frost: The Most of It: Making the Most of Life

By: Feature Writer Elizabeth Gregory

Slouching Toward Nirvana: Bukowski's Book Includes Reflections on His Place in Literature.

By: George Conrad Gould

The Sundays of Satin Legs Smith: A Look at the Element of Voice in Brooks' Poem

By: Christopher H Williams

Brink Road and Postmodernism: A.R. Ammons' last Book of Poems Explores his Relationship to Nature

By: George Conrad Gould

Robert Frost: Hyla Brook: We Love the Things We Love for What They Are

By: Feature Writer Elizabeth Gregory

Reading the Cantos as a Troubadour: A Look into the Diverse Realms of Ezra Pound's Poetry

By: George Conrad Gould

Plight of the Troubadour: Language, Confusion and Betrayal in Billy Collins' Poem

By: Feature Writer Jem Bloomfield

Witter Bynner: American Poet and Founder of The Witter Bynner Poetry Foundation

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

The Spectra Poems: Literary Spoof and Scandal

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Jim Carroll: The Punk Poet Prodigy

By: Sean Ryan Valinoti

Allen Ginsberg's Howl: An Anthem for an Age

By: Feature Writer Sandy Mitchell

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