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Why Isn’t Poetry Ever ‘a Good Read,’ Entertainment Weekly? Books the Magazine Left off Its List of ‘The New Classics’
Isn’t poetry ever “a good read”? Entertainment Weekly has published a list of “The New Classics: The 100 Best Reads From 1983 to 2008” www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20207076_20207387_20207349,00.… more »
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Why Isn’t Poetry Ever ‘a Good Read,’ Entertainment Weekly? Books the Magazine Left off Its List of ‘The New Classics’
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1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 1 week ago: Isn’t poetry ever “a good read”? Entertainment Weekly has published a list of “The New Class … more »
Baseball Poems – One of Poetry’s Power-Hitters Picks His Favorites
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1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 1 month ago: Edward Hirsch, the poet and National Book Critics Circle Award winner, lists baseball poems he likes … more »
Jack Prelutsky’s Worst Book? The Magic Is Gone in ‘The Wizard,’ Illustrated by Brandon Dorman
1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 3 months ago: A popular children’s poet casts no spell when he recycles earlier material The Wizard. By Jack … more »
Martín Espada Wears His Causes on His Sleeve in ‘The Republic of Poetry’
1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 3 months ago: A visit to Chile helped to inspire a collection that includes anti-war poems The Republic of Poetry … more »
National Book Critics Circle Award Reality Check: Mary Jo Bang's 'Elegy,' Poems About Her Son's Death, an 'Addiction Catastrophe'
1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 3 months ago: The latest in an occasional series on book-award winners and whether they deserved their honors Tit … more »
Another Book Awards Reality Check -- Coming Tomorrow
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1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 3 months ago: Have you ever read a book that won a major award and thought, “Were those judges all on Class … more »
Why We Need Negative Reviews of Books (Quote of the Day/William Logan)
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1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 4 months ago: Perhaps everyone who’s edited a newspaper or magazine book section has heard the question: … more »
Robert Frost (Miles To Go)
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QuoinMonkey wrote 4 months ago: Shadows Of The Cattail, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All ri … more »
Recommended Poetry Titles From the National Book Critics Circle
1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 4 months ago: Your Sunday book section review section might have stopped reviewing poetry during the Carter admini … more »
Do We Need ‘Easier’ Poetry to Bring Back Readers? (Quote of the Day/William Logan)
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1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 5 months ago: William Logan reviews the latest book by Geoffrey Hill, who writes perhaps the most complex and diff … more »
Good Poems for High School Students (and Maybe for Yourself, Too)
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1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 6 months ago: Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thou … more »
The Miracle of Lazarus
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uspoetsabroad wrote 6 months ago: Emma Lazarus was America’s first great Jewish poet. Almost every American (and not only) h … more »
I Am A Lagan (USA) Tour of Ireland
aislingdoherty wrote 7 months ago: During December, from the 13th through to the 19th, there will be a tour of Ireland and Northern Ire … more »
'Setting Sail'
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Bonnie wrote 7 months ago: It is the holiday season, and everyone is thinking about holiday stuff. Very few are thinking about … more »
Whatever is
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Clattery MacHinery wrote 7 months ago: Whatever is Whatever is or isn’t or was or wasn’t it is … more »
Who Was Samuel Greenberg?
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uspoetsabroad wrote 7 months ago: Samuel Greenberg wrote visionary lyric poems highly inspired by Emerson. His poetry has largely bee … more »
What Rhymes With Beltway? Hart Seely Sends Up Politicians and Others in His Collection of Satirical Poems, ‘Mrs. Goose Goes to Washington’
1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 1 year ago: We don’t know much about him. We don’t know what he’s done. We don’t know what he stands for … more »
Robert Cording's Poem "Pentecost in Little Falls, New Jersey'
1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 1 year ago: A reminder for anyone observing Pentecost (Sunday, May 27) … Robert Cording’s eloquent c … more »
Poet Lucille Clifton, Winner of a $100,000 Lifetime Achievement Award and Creator of the 'Everett Anderson' Series for Children
1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 1 year ago: An acclaimed poet will this week receive the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for her work, which includes an … more »
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