The Dead Poets Video Project has officially begun, with the posting of forty-three (43) videos of readings and adventures from the gravesites of famous American poets. Journey to the graves of Elizabeth Bishop, James Dickey, Gwendolyn Brooks, Theodore Roethke, Henry Timrod, Robert Penn Warren, Carl Sandburg and many more.
December 18, 2009
Dead Poets Video Collection Has Begun
December 17, 2009
December 16, 2009
December 15, 2009
December 14, 2009
December 13, 2009
December 04, 2009
America's Native Son Buried in Paris
I stumbled upon the fascinating story of Richard Wright's last years living in Paris, where he is also buried. He became enamored with Haiku while living in self-imposed exile, and a collection of some of them them was printed as "Haiku: This Other World."
November 29, 2009
Sarah Hale: Mother of Thanksgiving
Who knew that the woman most responsible for our national Thanksgiving holiday is buried in Philadelphia? The Dead Poets Society of America, that's who!
From Sarah Josepha Hale, "Editor's Table," Godey's Lady's Book, 1858
Let us consecrate the day to benevolence of action, by sending good gifts to the poor, and doing those deeds of charity that will, for one day, make every American home the place of plenty and of rejoicing. These seasons of refreshing are of inestimable advantage to the popular heart; and if rightly managed, will greatly aid and strengthen public harmony of feeling. Let the people of all the States and Territories sit down together to the "feast of fat things," and drink, in the sweet draught of joy and gratitude to the Divine giver of all our blessings, the pledge of renewed love to the Union, and to each other; and of peace and good-will to all men. Then the last Thursday in November will soon become the day of AMERICAN THANKSGIVING throughout the world.
From Sarah Josepha Hale, "Editor's Table," Godey's Lady's Book, 1858
Let us consecrate the day to benevolence of action, by sending good gifts to the poor, and doing those deeds of charity that will, for one day, make every American home the place of plenty and of rejoicing. These seasons of refreshing are of inestimable advantage to the popular heart; and if rightly managed, will greatly aid and strengthen public harmony of feeling. Let the people of all the States and Territories sit down together to the "feast of fat things," and drink, in the sweet draught of joy and gratitude to the Divine giver of all our blessings, the pledge of renewed love to the Union, and to each other; and of peace and good-will to all men. Then the last Thursday in November will soon become the day of AMERICAN THANKSGIVING throughout the world.
November 24, 2009
James Whitcomb Riley
This is the Mother of All Poets' Graves (at least in the USA). There are some monuments in the Middle East to poets that are larger than this, but Riley's grave is the grandest in the US. His funeral also has the reigning record for number of people who lined the roads. Close to 50,000! That is more than Michael Jackson.
Carl Sandburg
This was one of my favorite graves on the whole 150-grave Grand Tour 2009. If you go in the summer the flowers are amazing.
November 19, 2009
November 15, 2009
"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
Originally uploaded by stewan252
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