Article: Rachel Loden. Hotel Imperium. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999.(Review)

Article: What is a Poem? Closing out National Poetry Month with a poetic delineation
Coast Weekly;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......written and published today by America's poets is written in free (non-rhyming) verse. If a poem doesn't rhyme, you may ask, what makes it a poem? A poem is concentrated language that adds up to more than the sum of its parts. It's writing that...

Article: A Poem About Scabs? By Ashley Carman.(Neighbor)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  April 17, 2009 ;     106 words ...You canAEt write a poem about scabs. You couldnAEt because the poem constantly evolves u Reshaping, Reforming, Recreating the old look. The poem would never last u You would always have an itch to scratch u A new addition to make. You think you are...

Article: The Poem.(Poem)
Hopscotch;  October 1, 2000 ;     152 words ......friends were chatting on the Net About a poem not written yet. On one point they could agree: Poems aren't written easily. To make a poem it should seem As though you're writing...Fantasy is the only stuff That makes a poem good enough. No, no, no, another wrote...

Article: Poem's curse takes hold as rival author says he's owning up
The Scotsman;  April 8, 1998 ;     429 words ......mystery surrounding a controversial wartime poem which described the island of Orkney as...stationed on the island in 1942. From the poem's opening line, This bloody town's a bloody...decided recently to own up to writing the poem. He said: "After all the awful things I...

Article: Britain Buzzing Over Poem
AP Online;  April 12, 2002 ;     480 words ......orchestrated affair. But a simple anonymous poem that has been bouncing around the world...smile because she has lived, opens the poem, which was included in the program distributed...II chose the verse herself. He said the poem's theme _ giving thanks for a life rather...

Article: The Constant Rediscovery of a Poem
Generations;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Crabbit Old Woman." "Open Your Eyes." This poem, which has several different titles, has...poems (Guardian, 1998). On its own, the poem might be considered remarkable enough to...is accompanied by the same account: The poem was found in the locker of a frail old...

Article: Understanding "The Waste Land"; Why Eliot's famous poem resists easy interpretation.(BOOKS)
The Washington Times;  April 17, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Eliot's The Waste Land, the mostfamous poem of the last century and only 17 years short...readers will have been first exposed to the poem in a classroom setting that sometimes encourages...really means. But it is inimical to the poem's ferocity, a word that Eliot used more...

Article: POETS OFFER THEIR WORDS ON THE POEM.(Scene)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  January 23, 2009 ;     512 words ......in Washington, DC, on Tuesday to read a poem that she wrote, Praise Song for the Day...inaugural speech -- was her opening act. A poem has never had a bigger or brighter moment in the sun than Alexander's inaugural poem had on Tuesday afternoon. And while Obama...

Article: A Poem of Pure Enjoyment
The Hudson Review;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...A Poem of Pure Enjoyment Two MAJOR AMERICAN POEMS...parody of it was born almost as soon as the poem. So is the other, and in its day, it was the...everyone thinks are the opening lines of the poem: By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining...

Article: The Title to the Poem
Comparative Literature;  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...THE TITLE TO THE POEM. By Anne Ferry. Stanford. Stanford: Stanford...1996. 312 p. The title of The Title to the Poem might seem to suggest a topic of narrow...the few words that customarily precede a poem and signal the reader that he is about...

Article: Coming the Jakarta: poetry, information, and disaster.(Peter Dale Scott's epic poem)
Chicago Review;  June 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ......essay on Bali cited so frequently in this poem. In order then to make time for things...three writer-academics who wrote on the poem for the 1990 issue of Agni Review (31/32...in Indonesian affairs as they read the poem. Robert Hass's review ends in fact with...

Article: On Remembering Poetry.(poetry)(Poem)
World Literature Today;  January 1, 2008 ;     403 words ......matter what I do you won't remember this poem. No matter how witty or well crafted it is, no matter how sublime the poem may rhyme, the lines will inevitably go...matter what I do, you won't remember this poem, It'll just slip right by your long-term...

Article: On the wave of a poem; Local poets celebrate Barack Obama's decision to commission a poem for today's inauguration, perhaps signaling a return to poetry's traditional role in elevating an occasion.(VARIETY)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  January 20, 2009 ;     700+ words ......heighten a moment or an emotion? Today, a poem will be recited against the backdrop of...Press, was asked by Barack Obama to write a poem for the day. She will be only the fourth...publish a chapbook of Alexander's inaugural poem in conjunction with the inauguration. Local...

Article: Plath's 'Daddy.' (interpretation of Sylvia Plath's poem)
The Explicator;  January 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Images of victimization in Sylvia Plath's poem Daddy - of Nazis, swastikas, barbed wire...frantic, imposing, and vituperative that the poem seems more out of control than it actually...to its many unexpected pauses, Plath's poem, indeed, seems like a runaway train barreling...