Celebrating National Poetry Month Happy National Poetry Month! To celebrate, we pulled together our best stories about poetry with free links to poems from contemporary and classic American poets. “Mad Meg,” the Poet-Duchess of 17th Century England Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, shocked the establishment by publishing poems and plays under her own name. The Poet Who Wanted to Be Eaten by Vultures One day in 1971, the hard-drinking Beat poet Lew Welch walked into the woods of Nevada County and disappeared, possibly angling to be eaten by vultures. What This 19th-Century Poet Knew About the Future The Anthropocene requires a new history to explain how humans transform the planet. Ten Poems about Travel Poetry about all kinds of travel—from grand adventures to family vacations—by Elizabeth Bishop, Rita Dove, and more. The Restoration’s Filthiest Poet (and Why We Need Him) Creature of the court, royalist and fop, dandy and dilettante, John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, knew how to scandalize with verse.
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