Poem of the day: Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front Love the quick profit, the annual raise,vacation with pay. Want moreof everything ready-made. Be afraidto know your neighbors and to die.And you will have a window in your head.Not even […]
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A Cornerstone University alum laments
Amy Houskamp Nemecek is a senior editor at Baker Publishing Group and the author of The Language of the Birds and Other Poets. She is a graduate of Cornerstone University, a Christian college that just cut virtually all of its […]
Ode to enthusiasm
Our time seems less likely to produce or appreciate a Keats, and that is unfortunate. Many people spend much of their time being critical or angry.
David Waldstreicher brings his “blunt intellectual style” to a biography of Phillis Wheatley
Here is Jennifer Schuessler at The New York Times: Around 1772, Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved teenager in Boston, sat down to write a poem called “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” which began with praise for the “mercy” that […]
Found: A new Phillis Wheatley poem
Here is a press release from the State University of New York at Albany: A University at Albany professor has discovered the earliest known full-length elegy by famed poet Phillis Wheatley (Peters), widely regarded as the first Black person, enslaved […]