Dead Poets Society of America

Great Article Highlights National Dead Poets Project!

Yes! A Great front page article today that highlights the Dead Poets Society of America, and the search for poet's graves. You can Download Appreciating poets — past and present | www.timesrecord.com | The Times Record.pdf (462.4K)

Dead Poets Grand Western States Tour 2013

(Details forthcoming in April...so get ready to hop on the Dead Poet's Train with Dedgar the Poemobile and the Dead Poet Guy).

AP: Dead Poets Founder Halfway to Goal of 500 Graves

Posted: Oct 04, 2012 5:04 AM EDT Updated: Oct 04, 2012 5:04 AM EDT

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The founder of the Dead Poets Society of America is halfway to his goal of visiting the gravesites of 500 bards.

Walter Skold on Thursday is visiting the gravesite of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's brother Samuel at Portland's Western Cemetery. Skold says Samuel Longfellow was a hymn writer, pastor and poet.

It'll be his 251st burial plot visit, marking the kickoff of events leading to Dead Poets Remembrance Day on Oct. 7.

Skold, who's from Freeport, Maine, pushed for a national holiday after he discovered that the graves of many of the nation's literary forebears have been neglected.

Highlights this year will include a tribute to the poetry of John Updike and a special midnight reading of "The Raven" at Poe Corner in Boston, Edgar Allan Poe's hometown.

Newburyport News Announces Oct. 7th Dead Poets Remembrance Day Event

From today's article: Dead Poets Remembrance Day is a new literary holiday that was started by Maine poet and filmmaker Walter Skold and 13 State Poets Laureate three years ago, after Skold conducted a three-month tour of 150 poets’ graves. “The holiday hasn’t gone viral yet nationally,” says Skold, “But here in New England more people have taken part in the celebrations each year and really seem to enjoy it.”

22 Unknown or Forgotten Dead Poets of Mass

How many of these dead poets to YOU know? They are half of the 44 that will be celebrated on the 3rd annual Dead Poets Remembrance Day this October 7th and 8th.

Dennis Brutus - Elise Asher- Harriet Elizabeth Spofford - Charles Sprague - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps  - Clarence Manning Falt -Marsden Hartley - Rev. Timothy Flint - George Edward Woodberry - Alfonzo Lewis  - Enoch Mudge - Joseph Nye - Antoinette Purinton - Gamaliel Bradford VI  - William Alfred - Buckminster Fuller - Christopher Cranch - Thomas Higginson - John Pierpont, Sr.  -James Freeman Clarke - Amos Niven Wilder - Walter Beckman Pedersen

Etheridge Knight's Birthday Poem for His Wife : Sonia Sanchez

Six Videos on Poe posted for his Birthday

Just in time for the 202nd Anniversary of Poe's Birthday we've posted six new videos related to Poe: his three burials, his ideas on aesthetics, some sources for his horror stories, the cemetery where "Helen" and the Allan family is buried, movie posters, and more.

Dead Poets Remembrance Day a Winner

The eleven celebrations (that I'm aware of) of the first Dead Poets Remembrance Day marked a very successful launch of the literary holiday.

More photos and posts will be added in the days to come. The Great Boston Poetry Marathon was a great day of sunshine and poetry and the Remembering the Poets of the Granite State event was also a smash! Many thanks to all who particicpated. See -- and Hear You -- next year!

Coloradans Joining 1st National Celebration

Word from Colorado State Poet Laureate, Mary Crow, that on October 6th residents in Ft. Collins will gather to read from the poetry of Thomas Hornsby Ferril and Ed Dorn, as well as poetry from other favorite non-Colorado poets.

Welcome aboard the Dead Poets Remembrance Train Colorado! Mary makes the 19th State Poet Laureate to endorse the holiday, and Kevin Stein, the laureate of Illinois, marks 20!

Dan Beachy-Quick will host the historic event and poets reading include: Bill Tremblay, Matthew Cooperman, Aby Kapang, Francisco Leal, Veronica Patterson, Fernando Valerio-Holguin, and Lisa Zimmerman.   

Iconic Frost Farm Hosts Dead Poets Celebration

The beautiful and historic Robert Frost Farm has joined with the Dead Poets Society of America to host the first New Hampshire Dead Poets Remembrance Day. The grand celebration will take place in the famous Frost barn at 3 PM, on Sunday, October 10th.

Come hear a dozen of New Hampshire's best poets read the poetry of Jane Kenyon, Odgen Nash, Robert Lowell, Celia Thaxter, Robert Frost, Scott Mowrer, May Sarton, Richard Eberhart, Phillip Booth, and more, in this National Historic Landmark.

All are welcome to attend the reading. There is a fee of $4 (NH resident) or $5 (non NH resident) to enter to Farm, which is truly one of the best-kept literary sites in the country.

Many thanks to S. Stephanie, poet and wife of NH Poet Laureate, Walter Butts, and Bill Gleed, manager of the Frost Farm and co-founder of the Hyla Brook Poets, for putting this event together.