Coming the Jakarta: poetry, information, and disaster.(Peter Dale Scott's...

Chicago Review;  June 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ......intelligence-gathering game. Our kind of game. Two of the...writer-academics who wrote on the poem for the 1990 issue...fondness from Scott's poem are the boyhood scenes...towards poetry, or the kind of reading it attests...Scott started with his poem of course - his bibliography...and ...

Poem by a mentee.(voices of youth)(Poem)

Reclaiming Children and Youth;  January 1, 2006 ;     58 words ...Poem by a mentee Some people specialize in doing thoughtful deeds, Before you ask they understand your problems And your needs. They help because they want to; They find that being kind, And making others happy is the first thing on their mind. They make this world a better place by practicing the art, Of ...

Ginsberg's sensational 1956 poem has become a center of American...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  February 9, 1994 ;     700+ words ......center'' of American poetry? A great poem? ``I think it is,'' Goldstein says...questions about such a free-ranging kind of poem,'' today ``it's in all the anthologies...the landmark poem, really, from the kind of work that was being done in the...

Heaven's a wonderful place where everyone is kind and full of grace; HOURS...

The Mirror (London, England);  October 17, 1998 ;     442 words ...SCHOOLGIRL Kayleigh Scott wrote a happy poem called Heaven just hours before she was knocked down and...almost as if she knew something was going to happen. In her poem she describes heaven as a wonderful place and that is where we see her. She was a kind and happy youngster, always singing and dancing. In ...

Poet provocateur A poem on the plight of workers created a sensation a...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  December 29, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Most of America's most privileged were not happy about the poem's popularity, of course. There was a threat of retribution...number of influential people were taking up the cause of the poem. And an even greater number, the "uninfluential" working...dangerous political combination to the powers-that-be, and the ...

The Title to the Poem

Comparative Literature;  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......thorough patience of a table of declensions. Remarking that "a poem is almost literally 'about' all dimensions of language that...pronouns, pronouns that shift person in the course of the poem, the use of "a" or "the" or no article at all, freestanding...following: Who gives the title? Who has the title? Who ...

Confessional.(Poem)

Prairie Schooner;  March 22, 2008 ;     66 words ...Not the small box smelling of stale breath and velvet dust, not the kind of poem that starts honestly but veers into bathos-- rather a white page, much like this one. In it I tell you exactly what I did, where...

Commentary: Poem written by Alan Dugan

NPR Morning Edition;  December 26, 2003 ;     694 words ......book, "Sound and Sense," was a poem called "Love Song: I and Thou...title of the textbook, this poem made no sense. It wasn't one of those poems which presented a kind of arch surreality as if deigning...spent a long time reading that poem, trying to figure it out. I...help. I eventually showed ...

Students' poem moves grieving firefighters

Skokie Review (IL);  December 13, 2001 ;     611 words ......completing a poem that honors the spirit of the firefighter. "This poem is written from our hearts," reads the poem's final stanza. "We hope it will lift up your spirits. Children...massive their job is," Margolis said. "They wanted to write the poem because they wanted them to feel better." It ...

Book review: The Making of a Poem: The Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms:...

Scotland on Sunday;  November 12, 2000 ;     501 words ...THE Making of a Poem: THE Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms...show-casing examples of particular kinds of poem and describing the kind of form each poem uses - sonnet, sestina and so on - a deeper...Including in the sonnet section a 13-line poem without iambic pentameter and with no...

'Master of My Fate': A Poem Becomes A Killer's Epitaph

The Washington Post;  June 12, 2001 ;     577 words ......Timothy McVeigh ended with a poem. Given the chance to make a...requests opened a window onto the kind of mind he had. For a last meal...invoked "Invictus," printing the poem in a backward-slanting hand...victimizer. He was bludgeoned, as the poem says, by 'chance' and 'circumstance...McVeigh ...

THE LITTLE POEM THAT COULD

The Boston Globe;  June 11, 2000 ;     700+ words ......at the Church of the Redeemer in Newton, asked to see the poem. "I got the poem on a Wednesday, read it over, and woke up the next day around...began composing," Eastburn said. He said putting music to the poem came to him pretty quickly because of the poem's rhythm and use of syllables. ...

In praise of the poetic problem ; The End of the Poem By Paul Muldoon...

The Independent - London;  December 15, 2006 ;     438 words ......Oxford Professor of Poetry, The End of the Poem, sees him preoccupied with textual haunting as he unravels a poem's "invisible threads". Muldoon often takes a single word and works a kind of free association that takes in the...Such excavation sees him tracking the poem's genesis, "marking and ...

TO THANK A COUPLE OF BILLIONAIRES - WHY, WRITE A POEM.(What's Happening)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  August 18, 2000 ;     677 words ......challenge.'' Part of the allure was the chance to write a poem on a theme, something she had not done since her college days. And there would be the opportunity to deliver the poem in front of an audience that would include both Gates and Allen. Plus, she was pleased that the $400 commission for the poem ...

Owen's 'A Terre.'.(Wilfred Owen's poem)

The Explicator;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......this moment the speaker of the poem is distinct from the officer...inviting the one who tells the poem to sit with him. If this is...become two speakers of the poem: the officer and the poet...officer and the reader of the poem who listens to the poet. The...officer is willing to accept the ...