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Smithsonian April 2004 David Lehman |
Presence of Mind - Colossal Ode Without Emma Lazarus' timeless poem, Lady Liberty would be just another statue. |
Macworld November 2003 Christopher Breen |
MasterWriter Songwriting utility makes it easy to create perfect lyrics |
British Heritage Joan Gooding |
Britain's Last Romantic Poet: Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) was that contradictory writer: the Welsh poet who could neither read nor write Welsh. His parents seem to have been completely opposed in their cultural background and beliefs and produced a strangely hybrid offspring. |
Salon.com December 10, 2002 Suzy Hansen |
Sex, lies and revolution Gioconda Belli talks about leaving her marriage for Nicaragua's Sandinistas and a tumultuous life of love affairs, espionage and power struggles. |
Salon.com December 2, 2002 Jim Fisher |
Prometheus' gift of fission A sonnet commemorating the 60th anniversary of the first laboratory-induced nuclear chain reaction. |
Salon.com April 2, 2002 Elizabeth Gold |
Who moved my iambic pentameter? Forget National Poetry Month -- poets would be much better off it they learned to repackage their volumes of verse as self-help manuals... |
Salon.com October 12, 2001 Amy Standen |
Rumi: No. 1 in Afghanistan and the USA Translator Coleman Barks discusses the bestselling poet who's loved equally among Yanks and Afghans... |
Salon.com September 6, 2001 Laura Miller |
The siren She bedded countless men (and women) and became the most celebrated woman of her day. She wasn't a rock star -- she was poet Edna St. Vincent Millay... |
Salon.com August 7, 2001 Graham Joyce |
Poetic license When a writing student accused England's poet laureate of sexual harassment, the tepid peccadilloes of a nation's literati were laid bare... |
Salon.com August 1, 2001 Laura Miller |
"The Sappho Companion" by Margaret Reynolds Genius? Pervert? Seducer and murderer? Homely bluestocking? Nymphomaniac? Every age has its own version of the woman whose 2,600-year-old verses invented the poetry of love... |
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