Dead Poets Society of America

42 New Sets of Poets' Graves Photos Posted

I've just added 42 new sets to the most comprehensive collection of US Poets' Graves in the world.

Among the poets whose graves and/or houses I've posted are: Sexton, Wheatley, Whittier, Lucretia Davidson, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Ogden Nash, Michael Wigglesworth, James Whitcomb Riley, Frost, Ginsberg, Kerouac, and more.

"Remembering Maine's Island Poets" Oct. 7th

On October 7th, the Dead Poets Society of America, in cooperation with individuals and institutions on the Maine coast, is organizing "Remembering Maine's Island Poets", a day-long, 6-event reading up the coast of Maine, starting at sunrise in Harpswell and ending at sunset at Cadillac Mountain.

A new blog has been started to provide Mainers with information about where we will have community readings that highlight the lives and work of 36 Maine poets.

Participants are welcome to sign up to read a work from one of their favorite Maine poets, and blog readers can make comments with suggestions for poems to be read that day (they all will have something to do with the "Islands" ie., fishing, shipbuilding, sailing, vacationing, the coast, etc.)

On October 7th, the Dead Poets Society of America, in cooperation with individuals and institutions on the Maine coast, is organizing "Remembering Maine's Island Poets", a day-long, 6-event reading up the coast of Maine, starting at sunrise in Harpswell and ending at sunset at Cadillac Mountain.

A new blog has been started to provide Mainers with information about where we will have community readings that highlight the lives and work of 36 Maine poets.

Participants are welcome to sign up to read a work from one of their favorite Maine poets, and blog readers can make comments with suggestions for poems to be read that day (they all will have something to do with the "Islands" ie., fishing, shipbuilding, sailing, vacationing, the coast, etc.)

Dead Poets Remembrance Day Announced

Shakespeare is Dancing in His Grave!!

The debut of the Dead Poets Remembrance Day is finally here....On October 7th, Celebrate America's dead poets with your neighbors.

Grab your camera or video and do some digging for a poets' grave...You could win $1,000. 

While we want want this celebration to spread around the Globe like a contagious happy virus, we don't have maps for Canadian poets. If you are Canadian and live near the border of the US, you are welcome to track down an US poets' grave and enter the Grant Tombstone competition.

NC Dead Poets Bash Tonight

Tonight the Grand Tour arrives in Fountain, North Carolina, where some local bards, bartenders, and blues singers have lined up a great Bash to remember NC poets. A nice announcement appeared in the Wilson Times:

Pembroke Magazine editor and poet Shelby Stephenson will read poems by Sam Ragan and Paul Green. Wilson-based poet Jim Clark will perform poems by Byron Herbert Reece set to original music composed by Clark. Lightnin' Wells will read poems by George Moses Horton and perform songs by Piedmont blues poets Blind Boy Fuller and the Rev. Gary Davis.

Others have committed to read poems by A. R. Ammons, Jonathan Williams, Randall Jarrell, and Rocky Mount's William Boyd.

"Anyone who's interested in poetry is welcome to bring along a favorite poem by a dead Tar Heel poet to read," said Albright. "Who knows? You might wind up in the documentary."

Tuesday's event is the only North Carolina stop on the Dead Poets Bash tour, which concludes later this month in Massachusetts with a 24-hour marathon visit to 48 dead poets' graves.

Read more: http://dailyme.com/story/2010051400004152/dead-poets-bash-stops-fountain.html#ixzz0oHw0iUWk

30% Off T-shirts only today

Cafe Press has announced a 30% sale for T-shirts just for today. You can get your Dead Poets Grand Tour shirts and hats online.

Grand Tour Airs on Canadian Radio

The Canadian Broadcast Corporation show "As It Happens" aired a great interview with me about Dedgar and the Grand Tour. Dead Poets are going International.

Dead Poets Bashes Bursting Out All Over

As the countdown to the Grand Tour begins, new locations are being announced for our public events, called a Dead Poets Bash. On the Dead Poets' Facebook page are the links to Bashes (ie. parties) in New Hampshire, Connecticut, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, New York, and Rhode Island, (with more locations to be announced here soon).

Grand Tour T-shirts Now Available

T-Shirts, Hats, Beach Bags & Buttons now available on the Dead Poets Grand Tour Store.

All-Saints Day & Documenting Our Dead Poets

Welcome if you have made it here through reading the excellent AP story about the Dead Poets Society of America!

Today is traditionally called All-Saints Day (or Reformation Sunday, if a Protestant)..and what a great day to remember our dead poets.

You can help document the graves of America's dead poets by sending pictures of graves to our public Flickr Collection. We also have three maps to show you where some poets are buried...We are in special need of people in California, Oregon and Washington to get out there and dig up your dead poets! So MANY waiting to be photographed.

We're Looking for Gravediggers this Halloween!

The Dead Poets Society of America is looking for gravediggers this Halloween: people who will go out individually or in groups to take pictures of gravesites and/or to simply read poetry at a poet's gravesite.

C'mon, have a Dead Poets Bash on Halloween or All Saint's Day: the perfect time to remember our dead poets.

The details of where to send photos and videos are posted on our Help page.