Pomes Bitcoineach
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#DownWithCentennialism
The empty occasions of calendrical time impose their false coherence on us.
Stealing Poetry in North Platte, Nebraska
Before announcing the death of poetry, look at the numbers. Poems circulate widely in U.S. popular culture.
Back to School with Anne Campbell
Though little known today, Anne Campbell's poetry merits attention.
Reference Works, Poetically
Why would anyone read a reference work cover-to-cover?
1942-2013 = LOU REED = ∞
Lou Reed cared about art long after he could have stopped caring. Art is what drove him and fueled his work, what inspired him and made him so inspiring. And in this cultural moment where fame and page views often trump all other claims to attention, that is huge.
Whitman's Grandchildren: Becoming and Unbecoming Walt Whitman
The January 2013 issue of PMLA has a pretty cool article ("Whitman's Children") by Bowdoin College English Professor Peter Coviello that takes as its starting point a couple of babies born after the U.S. Civil War that were named Walt—a nominal tribute that two veterans paid to Walt Whitman after receiving Whitman's care during the war.
Cervantes' Intent
Critics have long held that, even if Cervantes was at least somewhat aware that his work would be successful, this was only because he knew it was funny, and hoped that, in reading it, as he famously wrote in his first preface to Don Quixote, "the melancholy would be moved to laughter, and the merry made merrier still."
English-Language Resources for Arabic Poetics
Arabic poetics—the theories of criticism of poetry and eloquence in classical (mediaeval) Arabic scholarship—has a great deal to offer the contemporary reader and critic.
Glosses and Conjectures on the Inaugural Poem
In Gawker's wry estimation, most of the U.S. simply didn't "get" Richard Blanco's inaugural poem "One Today." In the Washington Post's absurd trollgazing account, Blanco's poem merely signals the "death of poetry."