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When Bad Lines Happen to Good Poems [by Laurence Goldstein]
If you were empowered by the gods to travel back into the canon of poetry in English and change or delete one line, which would it be? On occasions, sometimes years apart, I’ve put…
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“For Anne Gregory” [by William Butler Yeats]
For Anne Gregory 'Never shall a young man,Thrown into despairBy those great honey-colouredRamparts at your ear,Love you for yourself aloneAnd not your yellow hair.' 'But I can get a hair-dyeAnd set such colour there,Brown,…
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The story of a kind of long but exceedingly entertaining poem to which I link (and something about speaking of Doubt on Speaking of Faith) [Jennifer Michael Hecht][
This is the story of a poem. Here is a link right to the poem: The poem. A long time ago, in a galaxy you are soaking in right now, I was just another crazy…
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Milton, Dickinson and other Borscht Belt Poets [by Laurence Goldstein]
Graduate students have a sorry game in which they try to imagine dissertation topics that sound impressive but would only take a week or less to complete. A Variorum Edition of the Complete…
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Haiku Exchange # 6 (Shapiro and Lehman)
Subj: Re: A little group to compensate for senior miscounting; more on KKDate: 1/13/03 9:42:35 AM Eastern Standard TimeFrom: DaJoShapTo: DCLEHMAN Let the breeze of So WhatBlow through you, said the masters:Now it does:…
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“The Course of a Particular” [by Wallace Stevens]
Wallace Stevens (1952) The Course of a Particular Today the leaves cry, hanging on branches swept by wind,Yet the nothingness of winter becomes a little less.It is still full of icy shades and shapen…
