Recently, I joined some of the other editors for a radio show to promote the release of our latest issue. We floated as an idea for the show the theme “Poets and Editors,” and while we instead spent a lot of time talking about the poems in our latest issue…
Tag: Poetry
I don’t “get” Poetry.
What is there not to get? I often hear the expressions I don’t like poetry/I’m not a fan of poems /I don’t care much for poetry from English majors, and people who consider themselves fans of literature (blasphemy to my ears). It is seldom, or actually never the case where…
Like Reading? Then Put a Ring on It!
Blog posts are stressful, man. So are taxes, emails, and Facebook. That’s why, for the past few weeks, these other stressful tasks have taken precedence over the #1 task of any English major—reading. Reading has not been a priority of mine for about a month now. Too many deadlines, too…
Hearing Poetry
Although I’ll be the first person to admit that I love nothing more than curling up with a book of poetry, there is something very special about hearing the words on a page come alive through a writer’s voice. The way in which poets play with language becomes evident upon…
Is Poetry Dead?
In 2003, Newsweek released an article titled “Poetry Is Dead. Does Anybody Really Care?” The article, as you might guess, asserts the position of poetry as an irrelevant artform in today’s day and age. The author claims that poetry simply cannot survive in our culture of notoriously short attention spans…
Literature in Unlikely Places. Every Word Matters.
When thinking about the word Literature we often only think of books. What we forget is that Literature is the art of written work. Written work can be anywhere, not just in books and although contradictory to its definition, it does not even have to be written. Written work can…
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