Have you heard of Fitz-Greene Halleck?
He was known as America’s Byron.
You’d think with a weighty title like that most English majors would know about him.
I hadn’t heard of him until I moved to Guilford, CT and started digging around in the library for some local literary history.
I mentioned in the last post that my Book Cougars cohost Emily and I were up to something for National Poetry Month. What we’ve done is ask a bunch of our friends to record themselves reading a favorite poem and… Read More ›
April is National Poetry Month and the Book Cougars have something in the works to celebrate. As part of that, I was at B&N yesterday browsing around in the poetry section. I also read around in Gary Vaynerchuk’s new book,… Read More ›
It’s National Poetry Month and I haven’t given poetry much thought this month. In years past I atleast thought about reading poetry, but this year I wasn’t even tempted. Not even when the Willa Cather Association posted encouragement on their… Read More ›
Photos of The Poetry Garage in Chicago
Broken record time: Where does the time go? April already. Gee-whiz. A quick recap of March and the first quarter of the year, Q1. First, March. At Emily Dickinson’s House I’ve done some cool literary stuff this month–visited Emily Dickinson’s… Read More ›