Great Poets

. Listen to "Arrow Song" by Gunny Markefka, with lyrics from Longfellow. "Arrow Song" is from his album Arrow Songs,...

. Edgar Allan Poe was known for strange and mysterious tales, in poetry and prose. Perhaps fittingly, the circumstances surrounding...

. Contemplating Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer He stands enwrapped in luminous shadowed light, A woven cord of gold...

. The Purloined Lectern by C. Aubre DeWiles It was the fall, November, 2020, in the night. My friend, Earl...

. Bardolatry He boasted an iambic ear, That playwright with insight, Shakespeare; Yes, Measure for Measure He’s given much pleasure With Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear. The...

. “A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” ---Robert Frost An Essay by Adam Sedia To many in...

. Advice from Dante “If you hear nostrums* in the market cried, Behave like men, and not like witless sheep.”...

. The poet has now escaped Hell, and has arrived in Purgatory or what he calls the StairWell. But he...

. On Rembrandt's "Return of the Prodigal Son" Three centuries have passed since it was wrought--- A work of art...

  Dear Edgar, __We’re sorry our response has taken so much time, but it grieves and pains to tell you...

. . Prince Hamlet Speaks About Election Fraud Prince Hamlet speaks about election fraud:"O villainy! Ho! Let the door be...

  Perfectionist Inclined Maligned by self-encasing brine, defined By certainty's demise, self-image lies Within a shrine. Perfectionist inclined, I crouch...

  The Falcon “In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he...

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by Sultana Raza In April 1820, Keats was already aware that he had tuberculosis, and in spring of that year,...

Edmund Spenser by Margaret Coats Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) wrote 121 sonnets of rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee, including 87...

  https://youtu.be/bYg-ITiEEyM   "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud," also known as "Daffodils," the poem by former British Poet Laureate...

  Oxford "University"? Its preference now: diversity. The Homers, Ovids, Virgils--- Now peanuts for the squirrels! This "school" now gives...

  Personae and scene: Vergil and Dante, somewhere in the mid-region of Hell. Dante: Honored Vergil, tell me where we’re...

  Cruising down an LA freeway, hustling for a little leeway Passing many a rusted relic from Detroit's Plutonian shore....

  translation by Jonathan Shoulta Andromache Will you, my Hector, forever go away to where with unmatched hands Achilles makes...

  The blind poet awakes and feels his way Into the living room, where light of day Will find his...

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  Years ago—I still remember: final Thursday in November, I was in my kitchen cooking food to rival feasts of...

Fleas with apologies to Joyce Kilmer I think that I shall never see A creature horrid as a flea. A...

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A Clerihew is a four-line comic poem with a rigid rhyming scheme, aabb, but no metric requirements. It stands in...

Judges: Michael Curtis, Amy Foreman, Reid McGrath, Adam Sedia A few words from Judge Michael Curtis: In apology: If you,...

Winners announced here! Write a short poem that begins with one line from any Shakespeare play or poem. The poem...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9LEnZ9T4F0&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be  by John Keats When I have fears that I...

  Birthday Apology William Shakespeare was born April 26, 1564 If all the world’s a stage, and all the men...

The following are excerpted from James Sale's upcoming book Divine Comedies.   Exit from Hell I did well in life....

by Evan Mantyk As the border wall with Mexico that President Trump is building gains greater and greater attention, so...

Moscow Zoo We saw the mass grave at the Moscow Zoo. A sullen man dug up a human skull Then...

The Odyssey, 21.388-22.125, translated with an eye on Homer's instinctively cinematic style. by Mike Solot The cowherd, Philoetius, quickly but...

after Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" __Once upon an evening dreary, I searched for news, at least in theory, Over many...

by Evan Mantyk Where is Homer? The epic poems of the famous Greek bard were the cornerstone of education for...

by Charles Eager William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in 1770—the same year as gave us Beethoven, Hegel, and...

A short film by Gleb Zavlanov. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxnDmkKqaF4&feature=youtu.be Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more...

By James A. Tweedie Call me a snob but I am generally attracted to what is commonly referred to as...