Poetry From the 1% - Huffington Post (blog)

Poetry From the 1%
Huffington Post (blog)
The month usually dawns with the usual list of celebrations by the usual list of suspects: events scheduled by the Poetry Foundation, the Academy of American Poets and, of course, mayoral proclamations regarding the value of poetry.

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An unwillingness to ride the herd: 'The Right No: Poems' by William Hathaway - Bangor Daily News

An unwillingness to ride the herd: 'The Right No: Poems' by William Hathaway
Bangor Daily News
Hathaway is in his mid-60s but a poet who would be valuable, you would think, to keep around. He has legitimate industry credentials, I mean. “The Right No” is the latest in a relatively lengthy list of collections, which includes “Promeneur Solitaire” ...

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How charming is my Valley - Daily Pioneer

How charming is my Valley
Daily Pioneer
But the place has become a flashpoint, writes Chaudhary Mohammad Ayub Kataria A long list of synonyms to describe its enigmatic charm, several books narrating its complex past and the struggling present, poets still fascinated to the silent depths of ...

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'Poetry is all about the journey' - Waterloo Record

'Poetry is all about the journey'
Waterloo Record
These days, MacDonald is working on poetry based on her observations of wildlife in Laurel Creek Conservation Area, not far from her home. The poems developed out of a list, called FaunaWatch, that she keeps on her Facebook page.

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Literary scholar Paul Fussell dead at 88 - San Jose Mercury News

Literary scholar Paul Fussell dead at 88
San Jose Mercury News
75 on the Modern Library's list of the greatest nonfiction books of the 20th century. "Great War and Modern Memory" used the work of English poets and authors to demonstrate how war is romanticized and idealized, turned into moral and religious parable ...

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Rhyme and reason - Citizen

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