John Lavan is a poet living in the north of England who has been creating poetry for the last five years, with some success in competitions and in publishing. His poems are inspired by people and events in life, not by any fanciful flights. He believes that every person has a unique, tender soft spot […]
It's just poetry, it won't bite
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Narrator By Annmarie Lockhart You know that I was never meant for mute. My voice was meant to fly, my words were meant to sing, and I was meant to be the stream of consciousness that moves the story from beginning to end and bends its babble through all the twists and turns along the […]
Happy Birthday Sara Teasdale!
Sara Teasdale was born on August 8, 1884, in St. Louis, MO. She was sickly, poor thing, and wrote from an early age. In her later years she suffered periods of near-complete disability. Her love life has been the subject of much speculation, for she married a rich man and rejected the poet she is […]
Afterbirth
Tova Cooper is a professor at the University of South Florida specializing in late 19th- and early 20th-century American literature. Her articles have appeared in or are forthcoming in Arizona Quarterly, Paradoxa, and Modern Fiction Studies. Tova blogs about children’s literature with Catha Worthman at sleepskipping.blogspot.com. She is the mother of a rambunctious three-year-old boy […]
Happy Birthday Alfred Lord Tennyson!
On August 6, 1809, Alfred Lord Tennyson was born! He was a Victorian poet, the longest-appointed Poet Laureate in the UK, and the first writer given a British title. He is known as a master of meter, and his poetry is fluid and musical. One of his finest works was written over a 17-year period […]
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