Dead Poets Society of America

We Found Frost! 225th Poets' Grave!

Dedgar and crew drove over 10 hours in our quest to "Find Frost!" My 225th grave!!!! On the way we stopped at the Stone House in Shaftsbury, VT., and the Frost family gravesite in Bennington, and then proceeded West to find Frost!

You'll have to wait for the movie to be released to see what and who we found! It was grave 225 on this 3-year journey!

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.

 

Voice of Kaddish at Ginsberg's Grave

Hear Ginsberg talk about Kaddish as Sir Joseph Drake rounds the corner towards the Ginsberg plot.

 

6 Jewish Poets for Palm Sunday

On Palm Sunday weekend, 2011, I visited about a dozen poets' graves from Whittier, in northern MASS, to Freneau, in Central Jersey. On Palm Sunday I spent an hour photographing the graves of six Jewish poets at Cedar Park Cemetery. Some of the photos are in the collection of Jewish Poets's Graves, and some iPhone videos are at the On the Road with Dedgar short video collection.

 

"In A Rose Garden"

In A Rose Garden from ChiefFallingLeaf on Vimeo.

Rumi & Dead Poets Day

Coleman Barks is well-know, not just for his own poetry, but for his long love of and translations of Rumi. He joined with the 18 state poets laureate this week in endorsing the Dead Poets Remembrance Day. Here is what he wrote:

"The areas around the tombs of Hafez and Saadi in Shiraz, Iran, are great continuous celebrations. The same with Rumi's resting place in Konya, Turkey. We have a lot to learn from those ancient cultures about how to enjoy our poets, and poetry in general."

"In the Marble Quarry" By James Dickey from ChiefFallingLeaf on Vimeo.

Lorine Niedecker: A Reminiscence (video)

When the Dead Poets Grand Tour 2010 rolled through the hills of Wisconsin, we stopped in Ft. Atkinson at the grave of Lorine Niedecker. One of the young poets who read that day is Margaret, and she and her mother have put together a great, homesgrown, homespun video reminiscence of Niedecker. It is very well done.

Dedgar Meets Edgar at Midnight

Now on Video: Dedgar The Poemobile was SO happy to meet Edgar last night in Baltimore. It was a meeting of the minds from the git-go; surely to go down in the annals of literary history as a pivotal moment.

 

Coleman Barks Reads James Dickey

"The Trappist Cemetery: Gethsemani" By Merton

Hear as Brother Paul, a monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani, and a one-time student of Thomas Merton, read Merton's "The Trappist Cemetery" in that very cemetery and next to Merton's grave.