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Poets and Poems: Luke Kennard and “Planet-Shaped Horse”

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

Mountains Luke Kennard

In “Planet-Shaped Horse” by British poet Luke Kennard, be prepared for fun-punched discoveries about words, language, ideas, and conventions.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Britain, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Poets and Poems: Mary Karr and “Tropic of Squalor”

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

Dying Rose Mary Karr

“Tropic of Squalor” by poet and memorist Mary Karr demonstrates Karr’s well-earned reputation for excellence in imagery and metaphor.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Poetry, World War I, and Armistice Day

By Glynn Young 8 Comments

Birch Grove World War I poetry

World War I is the war most closely associated with poetry; poetry characterized the war, and the war changed poetry unlike any war before or since.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Poems, poetry, Poets, war poems

Poetry, Fiction, or What? “The Long Take” by Robin Robertson

By Glynn Young 7 Comments

Compass Robertson The Long Take

“The Long Take” by British poet Robin Robertson, shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize, is a poetry book, a novel, and a noir movie.

Filed Under: Americana Poems, article, book reviews, Books, Fiction, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Paul Kingsnorth: The Poetry of the Future Landscape

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Welsh River Paul Kingsnorth

The poetry of Paul Kingsnorth is continually looking at the landscape, the landscape of the future superimposed on the landscape of the past.

Filed Under: article, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Longfellow, Whitman, Wheatley: Whatever Happened to Patriotic Poems?

By Glynn Young 39 Comments

Yosemite Falls Patriotic Poems

Patriotic poems like “Paul Revere’s Ride” and “I Hear America Singing” were once quite common, but can you think of a patriotic poem of the last 20 years?

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The Poetry of Silence: The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam

By Glynn Young 10 Comments

Tulip Field Anne Frank House

To enter the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, with its rooms approximating where eight people hid for two years, is to enter the poetry of silence.

Filed Under: Anne Frank, article, Blog

Traveling with Mark Twain and Eddy Harris on the Mississippi River

By Glynn Young 8 Comments

Canoe Mississippi River

Writer Eddy Harris canoed the Mississippi River in 1985, and he discovered that the river has its personality, its mood, and its conversations.

Filed Under: article, nature

Poets and Poems: David Whyte and “The Bell and the Blackbird”

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Lagoon Reeds David Whyte

“The Bell and the Blackbird,” the new poetry collection by David Whyte, is full of surprises but retains Whyte’s trademark simplicity and depth.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, nature, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry reviews, Poets

The Abounding Creativity of Middle-earth: An Appreciation of J.R.R. Tolkien

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Coastline Tolkien Middle-earth

With his stories of Middle-earth, J.R.R. Tolkien gave us a legacy of abounding creativity and imagination, explaining how myths are made.

Filed Under: article, Books, Britain, Creativity, Fiction, Tolkien

The Last of the Tolkien Tales: “The Fall of Gondolin”

By Glynn Young 10 Comments

Mountains The Fall of Gondolin

“The Fall of Gondolin,” the last of the tales of J.R.R. Tolkien, includes all of the author’s trademark themes and devices, including orcs and balrogs.

Filed Under: Art, article, book reviews, Books, Tolkien

World War I: Mary Borden – Nurse, Novelist, Poet

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

Poppies Mary Borden World War I

American Mary Borden married a missionary, financed a hospital in World War I France, had an affair, published novels — and wrote poetry.

Filed Under: article, Blog, love poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets, Sonnets, war poems

The Origin of a Monster: Happy Birthday, Frankenstein!

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Ice floe Frankenstein

The gothic novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley is 200 years old this year, and its core concern about the unintended consequences of science still apply.

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A Strangely Contemporary Verse Play: “Murder in the Cathedral” by T.S. Eliot

By Glynn Young 7 Comments

Tree in Snow Eliot Murder in the Cathedral

“Murder in the Cathedral” by T.S. Eliot, written and produced in 1935, was one of the last verse plays written for the stage. It is also oddly contemporary.

Filed Under: article, Books, Britain, Classic Plays, Play, poetry, Poets, T.S. Eliot

Marjorie Maddox and “Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation”

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Flowering Tree Maddox

The poems of “Transplant, Trnasport, Transubstantiation” by Marjorie Maddox take us to the world of change and loss, and what sustains us.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Heart Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

A New Exhibition: Tolkien and the Making of Middle-earth

By Glynn Young 9 Comments

Forest morning Tolkien

A new exhibition on J.R.R. Tolkien has opened at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and the catalog book is a treasure in and of itself.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Tolkien

“Love Songs”: Claiming Sara Teasdale for St. Louis

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

Yellow Rose Sara Teasdale

Sara Teasdale lived 34 of her 48 years in St. Louis; she was born and buried there, and St. Louis can claim her as one of its own poets.

Filed Under: article, Books, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, Sara Teasdale

The Poets of Instagram: r.h. Sin and “I Hope This Reaches Her in Time”

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

Woman in mask r h Sin

The poets of Instagram are helping to revitalize the reading of poetry, and r.h. Sin is one of them. His new collection is “I Hope This Reaches Her in Time.”

Filed Under: article, Black Poets, Books, love poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Writer Friends: The Lunchtime Literary Discussion Society

By Glynn Young 12 Comments

Threesome lampost Houston

Friendship forms among coworkers after the perfunctory question ‘How are you?’ gets an unexpected answer.

Filed Under: Blog, Friendship Activities and Prompts, Friendship Project, Patron Only, writer's group resources, Writing Life, writing prompt, writing prompts

Using Poetry to Reflect Upon the Civil War – Part 3: Walt Whitman

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Divided field Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman celebrated the beginning of the Civil War, like many Americans on both sides. But as it dragged on, he — and his poetry — changed.

Filed Under: article, Blog, Poems, poetry, Poets, Walt Whitman, war poems

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