- “In a Haystack” by Andrea Cohen, published in the current Atlantic Monthly
- This is an older link, but one well worth sharing.
Here is Joel Priddy’s cartoon story, “Mr. Blake’s Company”. For more information on Blake, his Wikipedia page is a good primer. - This is not about poetry or about reading poetry, but about writing in the Internet age. Some good advice by Cory Doctorow.
- An interview on NPR from a month ago about Elizabeth Alexander who was chosen to write the Inaugural poem for Barack Obama
- Finally, thinking about inaugural poems (I’m sure I would not enjoy the task of praising someone in verse in such a formal setting) led me to stumble across this story about the inaugural poem Robert Frost wrote for JFK. The Library of Congress has original scans of the text Frost was attempting to read from.
Link Wednesday – Andrea Cohen, William Blake, Robert Frost, Cory Doctorow…
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