Articles Index
Finding Gravitas (Origins of a Poem)
An essay by Michael Warr recalling the commission, conception and making of the praise poem he wrote in memory of his mentor, Fred Fine (1914 - 2004): “Gravitas.”
Burning Questions: A Guide to William Blake’s “The Tyger”
Notes on context, form and content, commentary and quotations on William Blake’s poem “The Tyger” from Songs of Experience (1794).
Library: Poems by William Blake
Our library of poem texts – selected poems by William Blake, in chronological order.
Library: Poems by Robert Browning
Our library of poem texts – selected poems by Robert Browning, in chronological order.
Library: Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Our library of poem texts – selected poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in chronological order.
Summer Poems
A collection of poems for summer, including an anonymous medieval lyric and classics by Thomas Nashe, William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, John Greenleaf Whittier, John Clare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Amy Lowell and Gerard Manley Hopkins, plus new poems from contemporary poets around the world.
Library: Poems by Walt Whitman
Our library of poem texts – selected poems by Walt Whitman, from his masterwork, Leaves of Grass.
Spring Poems
A collection of poems for spring, including classics by Tu Fu, William Shakespeare, Thomas Carew, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence and Gerard Manley Hopkins, plus new poems from contemporary poets around the world.
Poems for Fathers
A collection of classic poems about fatherhood, including classics by Su Tung-p’o, Robert Greene, Ben Jonson, Anne Bradstreet, Robert Burns, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Edgar A. Guest, Rudyard Kipling, Gerard Manley Hopkins and William Butler Yeats, plus father poems contributed by contemporary poets.
Library: Poems by Robert Burns
Our library of poem texts – selected poems by Robert Burns, in chronological order.
Poems of War and Remembrance
A collection of classic war poems, by Li Po, William Shakespeare, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Stephen Crane, Walt Whitman, Thomas Hardy, John McCrae, Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, Wilfrid Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, William Butler Yeats & Thomas McGrath.
The Limit Is Limitless
Asked to respond to “The move away from the orthodoxy of the book and printed page—towards what? Poetry in the age of Story Space and Disney...,” Edwin Torres says “The limit is limitless...”
Poems for Mothers
A collection of classic poems about motherhood, by Anne Bradstreet, William Blake, Christina Rossetti, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Walt Whitman, and Langston Hughes.
Jack Micheline
Poems and memories of Jack Micheline (1929 - 1998), by Poetry Guides Bob Holman and Margery Snyder and other San Francisco Bay area poets who knew him, compiled as a memorial after his death in February 1998.
Library: Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Our library of poem texts – selected poems by Edgar Allan Poe, in chronological order.
Library: Poems by Robert Frost
Our library of poem texts – selected poems by Robert Frost, in chronological order.
Library: Poems by John Keats
Our library of poem texts – selected poems by John Keats, in chronological order.
“One Person with Big Soul and Talent, Tiny Bucks”
“One Person with Big Soul and Talent, Tiny Bucks”—an email interview with Anne Elliott, a terrific poet and the publisher/editor of Big Fat Press.
“Poetry in a Time of Fire”
“Poetry in a Time of Fire”—Chris Mansell writes about why she started PressPress and how she’s gone about becoming an independent Australian small press poetry publisher.
“Poetry You Can Actually Read”
“Poetry You Can Actually Read”—an email interview with Bruce Isaacson, founder and publisher of Zeitgeist Press, an independent small press that rose out of the San Francisco Bay area spoken word scene of the 1980s.
Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe! The Empty House Tour
Tom Devaney explores Edgar Allan Poe’s Philadelphia house in “The Empty House Tour.”
Notes from the Walla Walla Poetry Party 2003
Denis Mair’s notes from the 2003 Walla Walla Poetry Party, condensed for About Poetry by klipschutz, plus a previously unpublished poem by Denis, “Try a Little Dialogue.”
Poetry Africa 2003
Bob Holman returns from the 7th annual Poetry Africa festival held in Johannesburg, South Africa in May, 2003 with a renewed sense of the power of gathered poets... “Africa, specifically South Africa, is ready for a larger voice in world poetry, and Poetry Africa shows how to do it...”
On Robert Frost’s Poem “Acquainted with the Night”
Notes on reading Robert Frost’s poem “Acquainted with the Night,” an American sonnet which is also an example of terza rima used in English.
Glossary of Poetic Forms
Traditional poetic forms briefly defined.