Poetry & Poets

Magazine articles on poets and poetry.

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culturevulture.net October 19, 2005 Chris Pepus	Byron This film biography of the poet Byron is a compelling portrait that captures his endearing qualities without flinching from the more sordid aspects of his life.
Parameters Autumn 2005	From the Archives Among Walt Whitman's poems of the Civil War was this one: Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night.
Reactive Reports Issue 47	Star Picks Three haiku Web sites with a scientific theme.
Smithsonian June 2005 Sharon Boorstin	Points of Interest - Rhyme Or Cut Bait Playing to overflow crowds for three days and two nights at local art galleries, a bar, and a cafe, the eighth-annual Fisher Poets Gathering features more than 70 presenters, from Kodiak, Alaska, to Arcata, California.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2005	Mr. Whimsy During the day, Marc Frederic is a vice president and advisor for Smith Barney's Torrance, Calif., office. But other times he is a children's book poet and writer of Benny's Pets. Here's a sample poem.
ifeminists November 17, 2004	Ode to the Horse A poem: With an emptiness inside me... I abandoned precious hope... Never dreaming for a moment... What I needed was a rope... etc.
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.
culturevulture.net February 10, 2003 Nicole Williams	Nonrequired Reading - Wislawa Szymborska Nonrequired Reading, a collection of essays by Nobel prize-winer Wislawa Szymborska, is a lovely gift to those who share her sense that reading is "the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised." The essays here are wry, gentle, provocative, skeptical, and fearless.
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