Dead Poets Society of America

Taylor Mead Joins Buddy Beats

Dead Beat Daddy #1

Tombstone Art, by Walter Skold a.k.a. the Dead Poet Guy

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)

The Place of Honor: @ the grave of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Join us by video for this travelogue edition of "Grave-hopping with the Dead Poet Guy", as we see how Dunbar's body was moved from his first grave to the highest place of honor: yet another example of how poets often posthumously claim the highest place of honor.

 

The Place of Honor: The Grave of Paul Laurence Dunbar from Walter Skold on Vimeo.

#259 Daniel Hoffman : US Laureate & Friend

I love this picture of my friend Daniel Hoffman, standing at his wife's grave and next to his own. Now, sadly, he is silent, except for the words of his poems and the memories that live inside those who knew him.

#258 at Hart Crane's Cenotaph

March 29th, 2013. At Hart Crane's Cenotaph for sunset on Good Friday.

#257 Tennessee Williams in Winter

March 25th, 2013. In Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, the next cemetery over from Sara Teasdale and William Burroughs.

Grave #256: Pitcher/Poet Daniel Quisenberry

Visited the grave of Major League Pitcher and minor league poet, Daniel Quisenberry this week, in Kansas City, MO.

  

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).

TRUTH : JUSTICE : NATURE : SCIENCE (and a dead, dead poet)

Tombstone Art Collection. (c) Walter Skold

At the grave of John Joyce, in Alexandria, Virginia.

 

#255 Alice Freeman Palmer

December 10th visit, in 2012, with my good friend Elizabeth Giele, who took the picture in the darkish but lovely sanctuary.