Poetry 180 - Home Page
Welcome to Poetry 180. Poetry can and should be an important part of our daily lives. Poems can inspire and make us think about what it means to be a member of the human race. Poetry 180 is designed to make it easy for students to hear or read a poem on each of the 180 days of the school year. Listening to poetry can encourage students and other learners to become members of the circle of readers for whom poetry is a vital source of pleasure. Billy Collins Former Poet Laureate of the United States Learn more about Billy Collins More Poet Laureate projects
Literary Resources -- 20th-Century British (Lynch)
This page is part of the Literary Resources collection maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers – Newark. Comments and suggestions are welcome. Twentieth-Century Literature Calls for Papers From Penn's list. Voice of the Shuttle — Modern British The best set of links. Literary Women of the Left Bank (Paula DiTallo) On-line magazine on early Modernism, especially women in Paris, 1900-1940, but with broader coverage than the title suggests. Modern Fiction Studies (Purdue) Information on the journal. Postmodernism is/in Fiction (Pomona) Original essays and links on Acker, Auster, DeLillo, Garcia Marquez, Gibson, Hagedom, Morrison, Powers, Pynchon, Reed, and Rushdie. The Space Between Information on the "society for the study of literature and culture between the wars." The Spirit Of Bohemia (Bohemia Books) A collection of original essays and links on 19th- and early 20th-c. The Great War Lost Poets of the Great War (Harry Rusche, Emory) Poetry of the First World War Trenches on the Web (Mike Iavarone) Authors
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Writing a Sonnet
3 of 5 Learn to write a sonnet in iambic pentameter, just like Shakespeare did. Discover the rhythm and rhyme scheme of the quatrains and couplets that make up a Shakespearean sonnet. Credit: "Sonnet 18," © 2008 Jinx!, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license: Here are the rules for writing a sonnet: It must consist of 14 lines. If you're writing the most familiar kind of sonnet, the Shakespearean, the rhyme scheme is this: Every A rhymes with every A, every B rhymes with every B, and so forth. Ah, but there's more to a sonnet than just the structure of it. First quatrain: An exposition of the main theme and main metaphor. One of Shakespeare's best-known sonnets, Sonnet 18, follows this pattern: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimmed;And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
Transcendental Woman by Christopher Benfey
Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life: The Public Years by Charles Capper Oxford University Press, 649 pp., $45.00 Margaret Fuller: Wandering Pilgrim by Meg McGavran Murray University of Georgia Press, 515 pp., $44.95 Fuller in Her Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of Her Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates edited by Joel Myerson University of Iowa Press, 217 pp., $27.95 (paper) With impediments in her way—she did not attend college, she wasn’t rich or conventionally beautiful, she was prone to physical and psychological ailments—Fuller continually sought a wider scope for her ambitious undertakings, as if, as her intimate friend Emerson remarked, “this athletic soul craved a larger atmosphere than it found.” During her sometimes improbable and ultimately tragic life—a life that George Eliot might have imagined—Margaret Fuller became, as her biographer Charles Capper points out, the first of many things:
MAPS
In stock late June for fall 2014 adoption. The Modern American Poetry Site is a comprehensive learning environment and scholarly forum for the study of modern and contemporary American poetry. Started as a multimedia companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000), MAPS has grown over the past decade to more than 30,000 pages of biographies, critical essays, syllabi and images relating to 161 poets. Criticism can be viewed through the classic list of poets and through the new poet search page, where poets can be searched alphabetically, chronologically by birth date, by race/ethnicity, and by group/school of poetry. MAPS welcomes submissions of original essays and teaching materials related to MAPS poets and the Anthology of Modern American Poetry.
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Fresh Graves: An Essay On Horror Poetry
Fresh Graves [Originally published in the Horror Writer's Association Newsletter, February, 2002, along with poem "Broken, Entered"] As a poetry editor, I receive a lot of horror poetry, and I'm sad to say that most of it doesn't even get a second read. Been there. Every so often I get poems that do it right, or at least approach the subject of horror poetry from the proper direction. So how do you do it right? Writing horror poetry should be something of an ordeal, not undertaken lightly. The power of poetry -- any poetry -- is in the particulars. What frightened you as a child? Don't be afraid to forsake logic in the study of fear. Dig deep. And when you write those strange, painful, personal poems -- send them to me.
Throwback Thursday: Back-to-School Beatitudes–10 Academic Survival Tips « The Crunk Feminist Collective
30 Aug Update, August 2012 Original Post Graduate school was nothing short of an emotional and physical rollercoaster. I spent the first semester depressed and homesick, years 2-4 battling a stress-induced stomach condition that caused me to lose not only 75 pounds but also a whole semester of work. I healed just in time to begin my dissertation, wherein I gained back most of the weight I lost, and experienced a nasty case of stress-induced shingles just as I was rounding third. Be confident in your abilities.If you feel like a fraud, you very likely are suffering from impostor syndrome, a chronic feeling of intellectual or personal inadequacy born of grandiose expectations about what it means to be competent. A little musical inspiration for the journey... Alright, fam. Like this: Like Loading...
