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Next Line, Please: Lehman Picks the Title of the American Scholar’s Crowd Sourced Sonnet
On Tuesday, May 6, The American Scholar launched a website experiment in writing crowd-sourced poetry—in this case, a rhyming sonnet. David Lehman supplied the first line and picked subsequent lines from reader submissions. Last…
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“Give Me Your Tired Your Poor”
From today's Writer's Almanac: Today in 1884, the cornerstone of the Statue of Liberty's pedestal was laid. It was largely funded by an auction of contributed art and literary works. Emma Lazarus, 34 years…
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On Corrupting the Youth (by Brian Brodeur)
During a recent conference meeting with a student in my Introduction to Poetry workshop, I experienced a rare (for me) fit of speechlessness. Actually, it happened twice. I’d asked my students, all undergraduate non-English-majors,…
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Poetry from Aotearoa/New Zealand 7–Bernadette Hall’s ‘Miriama’
miriama i. On crossing the border, I alwayschange my name. A simple precaution& you to guard my back Maheno, MonteCristo, Waianakarua, Mt Misery & allthe wildflowers …
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…To End All Wars (by Laura Orem)
On October 13, 1915, during the Battle of Loos, Captain Charles Hamilton Sorley was shot through the head by a sniper. He was 20 years old. He had enlisted out of Oxford for whatever…
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Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
I am bald. Well, not completely bald. More accurately, I have “male-pattern baldness,” which means I still have goo gobs of hair on the sides and in back, but the front reflects…
