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Whitman's Learn'd Astronomer: Thought vs Feeling

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 53: ‘What is your substance, whereof are you made’

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Robert Graves' 'Not Dead': Resurrecting Soul Qualities

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Laurence Binyon's 'For the Fallen': Dying for Freedom

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Dickinson's 'Each Life Converges': The Journey of the Soul

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

D. C. Berry's Fishy Metaphor: ‘On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High’

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 52: ‘So am I as the rich, whose blessed key’

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Polanco's 'Identity': Internet Poetastry

In: Poetry (general)

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Yogananda's 'The Cup of Eternity': Attaining Bliss

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

March Poet – Lawrence Ferlinghetti: 'Constantly risking absurdity'

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

April Poet – Etheridge Knight: Transcending Prison

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 51: ‘Thus can my love excuse the slow offence’

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Oscar Wilde's 'To My Wife': A Pretty Note

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Sedam's 'Desafinado': Ginsberg’s Irrelevance

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 50: ‘How heavy do I journey on the way’

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Wordsworth's 'The Idiot Boy': An Innovative Ballad

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Paramahansa Yogananda's Gita: An Exalted Explication

In: World Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 49: ‘Against that time, if ever that time come’

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Davies' 'Leisure': No Time to Stand and Stare

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Sandburg's 'Young Sea': Metaphors to Nowhere

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Robert Frost's 'A Soldier': An English/Italian Sonnet

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Four Modernist Poets: Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Auden

In: Poetry Forms

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Betjeman's 'Westgate-On-Sea': Measured Encumbrances

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Malcolm M. Sedam: Fighter Pilot, Businessman, Teacher, Poet

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 48: ‘How careful was I when I took my way’

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

'On the Death of Anne Brontë': A Poem by Charlotte Brontë

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Ancient Egyptian Poem: ‘Your Love, Dear Man, is as Lovely to Me’

In: World Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 47: Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Jamison's 'The Negro Soldiers': Roscoe C. Jamision Writes About Freedom and Sacrifice

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

February Poet – W. H. Auden: ‘Funeral Blues’

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Kizer’s ‘Night Sounds’: Alone and Awake

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Harpur’s ‘The Battle of Life’: Advice for the Struggle of Life

In: World Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Komunyakaa’s ‘Pride’: From Talking Dirty to the Gods

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Herrick’s ‘To the Virgins’: Carpe Diem and Rosebuds

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 46: 'Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war'

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Back’s ‘Her Hands’: Grief that Shrinks and Silences

In: World Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Profile - Rachel Tzvia Back: American-Born Israeli Poet

In: World Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Ann Stanford’s ‘The Beating’: Gaining One White Thought

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 45: ‘The other two, slight air and purging fire’

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Rethinking Cummings' Poem: 'somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond'

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Milton’s Blindness: ‘When I consider how my light is spent’

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 44: ‘If the dull substance of my flesh were thought’

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Dickinson’s Winter Welcome: 'Winter is good — his Hoar delights’

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 43: ‘When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see’

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Yogananda’s ‘City Drum’: The Miracle of a New Day

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 42: ‘That thou hast her, it is not all my grief’

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Amy Lowell’s ‘Fireworks’: Colors and Shapes of Rage

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

William Stafford’s Dead Doe: 'Traveling through the Dark'

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Abe Lincoln as Poet: 'My Childhood Home I See Again'

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

January Poet-Paramahansa Yogananda: Pilgrim Poem 'On Coming to the New-Old Land—America'

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Dickinson’s Winter: ‘Like Brooms of Steel’

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 41: ‘Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits’

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 40: ‘Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all’

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 39: 'O! how thy worth with manners may I sing'

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

The State of Poetry: How is Poetry Doing in 2007?

In: Poetry (general)

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Dickinson's Slant of Light: Intuition Through Winter Melancholy

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Bryant’s ‘The Murdered Traveller’: An Unsolved Mystery

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 38: 'How can my Muse want subject to invent'

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Keats in Winter: “In a drear-nighted December”

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 37: “As a decrepit father takes delight”

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Poet Laureate Loses Laureateship: Amiri Baraka's “Somebody Blew Up America”

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

A Flawed Love Poem: E. E. Cummings’ ‘somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond’

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

December Poet – Emily Dickinson: Dickinson’s ‘’Twas just this time, last year, I died’

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Wilbur’s ‘A Late Aubade’: Carpe Diem and Imagery Theme Strong in Poem

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

‘Patience Taught By Nature’: Barrett Browning’s Petrarchan Sonnet

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Whittier’s ‘The Pumpkin’: Allusion and Pumpkin Pie in Whittier's Poem

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Eliot’s ‘Preludes’: Paint it Ugly in Four Parts

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 96: ‘Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness'

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Two Children’s Poems: Conflicting Messages

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 36: ‘Let me confess that we two must be twain’

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Sharon Olds’ ‘The Victims’: A Failed Poem

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

November Poet – Vachel Lindsay: ‘Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight’

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 35: ‘No more be griev’d at that which thou hast done’

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Tricked by J. Alfred Prufrock: Learn to Laugh

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Whitman's 'Reconciliation': Loving One's Enemies

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Tricked by Robert Frost: New Article Series

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Betjeman's 'Christmas': A Doubter Tackles Tradition and History

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 34: ‘Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day’

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Frost’s ‘The Witch of Coös’: Bones in the Attic

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 33: 'Full many a glorious morning have I seen'

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Willilam Blake’s ‘A Poison Tree’: A Killing Metaphor

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Wordsworth’s ‘Michael’: Nature and Morality

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Housman’s Sage Advice: ‘When I was one-and-twenty’

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Kipling’s 'Helen All Alone': Confronting Temptation

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Robert Frost's Golden Moments: 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Farmer/Poet Frost: Analysis of Robert Frost's ‘Putting in the Seed’

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Dickinson’s ‘I heard a Fly buzz': Mystical Adeptness

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 32: ‘If thou survive my well-contented day’

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Matthew Arnold’s ‘Dover Beach’: The Virtue of Truth

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 31: ‘Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts’

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’: Egotism, Mystery, Few Poetic Devices

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Housman’s ‘Is my team ploughing’: A Guilty Conscience

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 73: ‘That time of year thou mayst in me behold’

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

October Poet: Sylvia Plath

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 30: ‘When to the sessions of sweet silent thought’

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Keats’ 'Ode to Autumn': A Celebration of Beauty

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Yeats’ ‘The Second Coming’: Visions of a Rough Beast

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 29: ‘When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes’

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Philip Larkin’s ‘Here’: A Beacon of Loneliness

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

‘Success is counted sweetest’: A Loser’s Comprehension

In: American Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

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