The US poet laureate is launching a podcast

Posted on 10/13/2018 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Who among us couldn’t use a five-minute breather from whatever action’s in our life? On November 26, that ca...

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Tagged As: Podcast, Poetry

Alice Walker's new poetry collection has a social conscience

Posted on 10/11/2018 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Like all of us, Alice Walker is worried about the future — so she’s taking action. She told NPR’s Scot...

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Tagged As: Author interview, NPR, Poetry

Celebrate three national days at once

Posted on 10/04/2018 at 09:59 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

What day is it, anyway? If you’re in the United Kingdom, it’s National Poetry Day. If you’re in the Un...

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Tagged As: Interesting Literature, Just for fun, Poetry

Watch one of Donald Hall's last interviews

Posted on 10/08/2018 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Two-time poet laureate Donald Hall is still gifting the world with his words. Hall passed away in June, but not before f...

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Happy earlier birthday to Langston Hughes

Posted on 08/10/2018 at 08:42 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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It turns out we’ve been wrong about Langston Hughes’s birthday all these years. Poet Eric McHenry told The N...

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Tagged As: History, Poetry, The Guardian, The New York Times

Happy birthday to Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Posted on 08/06/2018 at 12:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson, was born on this day in 1809 (which would make him 209 today, in case you were wondering). The lo...

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Tagged As: Classic literature, Poetry

3rd-century slab features verses from "The Odyssey"

Posted on 07/10/2018 at 06:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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The Guardian is all about the classics today — but this latest article is about something far older than Winnie th...

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Tagged As: Classic literature, Poetry

Remembering the late Donald Hall

Posted on 07/02/2018 at 06:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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NPR has reshared a 2012 interview with poet laureate Donald Hall, who died June 23. Hall’s work also included dram...

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Five poems about soccer

Posted on 06/28/2018 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Soccer or American football

World Cup fever has struck even the literary world. Interesting Literature shared five classic poems about soccer (or fo...

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Donald Hall, poet laureate, passes away

Posted on 06/25/2018 at 01:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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The daughter of Donald Hall confirms that the two-time poet laureate passed away Saturday. Hall, who was eighty-nine, ha...

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Tagged As: Obituary, Poetry, The Guardian