Dead Poets Society of America

Poets' Grave #241: Lillian Hillbom Rogers, North Hampton, NH.
Epitaph (pictured) is one of my favorites. Below a short poem of hers:

First a howling blizzard woke us,
Then the rain came down to soak us,
And now before the eye can focus -
Crocus.

Christopher Logue, 1926 – 2011

Christopher Logue, 1926 – 2011

By Harriet Staff

Christopher Logue, the British poet best known for his modernist re-working of Homer’s Illiad, died at home in London on December 2nd. He was 85.

Logue grew up in Portsmouth, Hampshire. After a stint in the military, where he served as a soldier in the Black Watch and spent 16 months in an army prison, he turned to a variety of jobs to support his poetry. His Illiad project unfolded over 45 years..

As he fell back, back arched,
God blew the javelin straight; and thus
Mid-air, the cold bronze apex sank
Between his teeth and tongue, parted his brain,
Pressed on, and stapled him against the upturned hull

Logue was a sort of magpie of poetry – there are sections lifted from Brecht and others, and he rewrote existing reports of violence into his descriptions. “I’m fickle,” he said in an Observer interview in 2006. “Almost everything I do is based on other texts. Without plagiarism, there would be no literature. I’m a rewrite man. A complete rewrite man, like our Willy Shakespeare.”

Sleeping in the Shadow of Sarah Jewett

Dedgar and I found ourselves tired after a two-week filming spree, so I took a short detour to South Berwick, ME.. where we parked right next to the beautiful Sarah Orne Jewett House, and slept for 4 hours.

Then I gathered a lovely bouquet of small flowers from her garden and used them to make tombstone art at her grave nearbye. Had an amazing 3 hour photo shoot with Sarah and fam and flowers. Some of the best photos I've taken on my journeys.

List of 15 Top Poets' Graves Released

The long-awaited release of the Top 15 US Poets' Graves is here! The Associated Press ran a national story of this milestone in literary history, as 225 Poets' Graves were reached.

That's Poesome Dude!

That's Poesome Dude is a new public photo album on Flickr. Feel free to post any photos you have that are related to Edgar Allan Poe.

 

Daniel Hoffman, Helen McKenna-Uff and Dedgar at the Poe House in Philadelphia. May 26, 2011. Bob Dylan has taken a friend to the Poe House; so should you!

May 14th: Emily Dickinson Poetry Walk

This year's Emily Dickinson Poetry Walk will focus on her poetry in translation. The 1 PM Community reading on Saturday, May 14th will move from place to place in town, finishing at HER GRAVE. Should be a very informative and fun event.

There will be an open house at her homestead museum from 3 to 4. PM.

Delmore Schwartz : A Re-visit on Palm Sunday Morn

Delmore Schwartz : A Re-visit on Palm Sunday Morn

Peretz Kaminsky : Yiddish Poet on Palm Sunday

Peretz Kaminsky : Yiddish Poet on Palm Sunday

 

Dead Utopian Jewish Poet

Hanon Reznikov, a Dead Utopian Jewish Poet:

 

5 Hebrew Stones on Jackson MacLow's Gravestone

5 Hebrew Stones on Jackson MacLow's Gravestone. The stones are rolled away on Palm Sunday in this short video.