Tag Archives: Poetry

We’re looking for poems that we didn’t know we were looking for: Scholars & Rogues launches poetry journal

S&R readers have probably noticed that we like poetry around here. Something we have been talking about for quite a while, in fact, is why we didn’t take the next step and become a poetry publisher. Now, after months of planning, we’re doing precisely that. On Monday, we will publish our first poem as a poetry journal. If you’re wondering,

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Goodbye, 2010

It’s as though Tennyson were writing about the past year, isn’t it? In Memoriam (Ring Out, Wild Bells) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

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Today’s poem at The Agonist

Lately I’ve caught myself saying things like “if a culture gets poetry right, its politics will take care of itself.” Kudos to Bruce Jacobs and our friends at The Agonist for their Poem for Tuesday feature, which reminds us each week of the true, transcendent power of words. Today Bruce offers up something from Mark Doty. A snippet: What these

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Poetry: found

Today The Agonist features the wonderful art of found poetry. That’s the great thing about art – sometimes it doesn’t wait to be made. It just goes ahead and makes itself. Like poetry? Tune into The Agonist every Tuesday, and you might also like this little poetry community, where today’s featured poem examines what the heck is a poem, anyway.

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Shameless self-promo warning: Sam Smith’s bitchin’ new Facebook poetry page

In addition to being a blogger and a marketing whore, I’m a poet. Actually, that’s what I enjoy the most and what I’m best at. Sadly, poetry doesn’t pay the way I’d like. Still, I do it because it matters a great deal to me. Lately I’ve been writing more and thinking more about how I can better promote my

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