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Poem of the week: 'The Fine Old English Gentleman' by Charle...

It would be a pity to let the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens pass by without including an example of his verse on Poem of the week. The novelist's poetic output was small: a few songs in The Pickwick Papers, poems for pla [...]

Posted On : May, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

Love Poem

(The following is a poem by my friend and editor at Eerdmans, Michael Thomson, a gifted writer in his own right). If life were made of light and laughter, How be? How does this sacrament play? Part improvisation, part cacophony, The [...]

Posted On : Mar, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Poem of the week: Prints by Helen Tookey

This week's poem, "Prints" by Helen Tookey, has a fascinating setting. Formby Beach is an important archaeological site, where profusions of prehistoric human footprints have been discovered, baked into the mud-layers beneat [...]

Posted On : Mar, 20 2012 | Comments : 0

Poems That Make You Hungry

“I think this okra is delicious,” Kevin Young said during lunch on Wednesday at a Midtown robata restaurant. The man should know. A prolific author, as well as a professor and curator at Emory University, Mr. Young is enoug [...]

Posted On : Mar, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Abraham Lincoln’s Favorite Poem

On Feb. 20, 1862, 150 years ago, young William Wallace Lincoln, third son of President Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary, died. He was just 11 years old and the likely cause was typhoid fever. You have to wonder if the president in his gr [...]

Posted On : Feb, 22 2012 | Comments : 0

Poem of the week: The Blacksmiths

This week's marvellously cacophonous poem, usually known as "The Blacksmiths," was written some time around the middle of the 15th century. As shown by William Langland's The Vision of Piers Plowman, the Old English alli [...]

Posted On : Feb, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Makoni publishes “healing” poems

Entitled “A woman, Once A Girl - Breaking Silence”, the book comes after women and girls asked the activist to share her inspirational story. “I started writing poetry when I was in Grade 7, as a way to take out the p [...]

Posted On : Feb, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

A Poem May Get a Writer Jailed In China

Chinese writer and activist Zhu Yufu was charged with publishing a provocative poem this past week (the official charge was "inciting subversion of state power"). Zhu's poem is entitled "It's Time," and here it [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

Outsider Poems, a Mini-Anthology in Progress (34): Hannah We...

[In constructing an assemblage of “outsider” poetry there is a point finally at which the work of contemporaries has also to be considered. I have felt constrained here by a determination not to confuse “outsider” [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Poem of the week: Philosophy by Amy Levy

Amy Levy was the first Jewish woman to attend Newnham College, Cambridge. Still more impressively, she published her first collection of poems, Xantippe and Other Verse, at the age of 20 (in 1881). She went on to produce three novels, two [...]

Posted On : Jan, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

Poem of the week: They Are All Gone into the World of Light!...

Henry Vaughan, born in Breconshire in 1621, began his literary career as a bright young secular poet of the Tribe of Ben. And then, after two unremarkable collections, a transformation occurred. His next book, Silex Scintillans, reveals a [...]

Posted On : Jan, 12 2012 | Comments : 0

Poem (We file like pilgrims...)

We file like pilgrims through the Richard Serra Calling Mexico for help "Ringed by the magical Necklace of Lights" In debt up to our ears The spiral has a navel for reflection and three discreet surveillance cameras T [...]

Posted On : Jan, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Poem for a Birthday

I still can't get over that lousy conjurer, All thirty quids' worth of rank incompetence. It wasn't yesterday. Eleven years since, Almost to the hour. That slipshod sorcerer, Butter-fingered wizard … Remember, whe [...]

Posted On : Nov, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Imaginary poem, imaginary king

A dead poet, a questionable editor, a 1000-line poem and an epic tale of escape meet in Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel "Pale Fire." Despite a wide array of critical acclaim (both praising and condemning), "Pale Fire" [...]