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John Anthony Brennan posted a blog post A Brief History of Poetry in Ireland. "And there are among them composers of verses whom they call Bards; these singing to instruments similar to a lyre, applaud some, while they vituperate others."Diodorus Siculus...

AN APPRECIATION OF PATRICK LANE Albino Pheasants At the bottom of the field where thistles throw their seeds and poplars grow from cotton into trees in a single season I stand among the weeds. Fenceposts hold each other up with sagging wire. Here...

Poems are social. One person writes a poem hoping another person will read it. I read it differently if I know that a computer assembled it. I read it differently if I know that a person wrote it by creating a set of rules that, computer-like, generated...

[by Alexei Bien] Seminar #1 – O’Hara We began the seminar by introducing ourselves and saying why we were interested in delving into Frank O’Hara and James Schuyler. Afterwards, our guide and poet, John Brehm, introduced us to Frank O’Hara. O’Hara...

Laverne Frith and his wife Carol Frith are the authors of Practical Poetry—A Guide for Poets, and frequent presenters of poetry workshops. They are also the co-editors of Ekphrasis, a journal that publishes poems focusing on a single work of art. The...