The Dead Poets of New England

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 PM.

Charles Olson Tombstone is Craking in Two

On the eve of the Charles Olson Centennial starting later this week, the Dead Poets Society of America has issued a press release detailing how the famous modernist poet's tombstone is splitting in half and in need of emergency repair.

You can read the press release and see the pictures for yourself.

The Great Boston Poetry Marathon of 2010 Announced

This Columbus Day sail the ocean of poetic imagination as Dedgar The Poemobile leads a sunrise to sunset reading of over 40 poets at five major locations. It is the GREAT BOSTON POETRY MARATHON.

Celebrate Dead Poets Remembrance Day in style, by joining the caravan for the whole day, starting at 6:15, in Gloucester, or meeting for a reading at Beverly, Salem, Boston Commons, Mt. Auburn Cemetery, or Author's Ridge.

A Visit with Anne Sexton and E.E. Cummings

(From Forest Hills Cemetery) Join us for a pilgrimage to the gravesites of two of the most famous American poets of the 20th century – Anne Sexton and E.E. Cummings. Along the way, we will read their poetry and see contemporary art inspired by their work, decode Victorian symbolism and view elegant 19th-century sculpture, and hear the stories of some of the other notables buried at Forest Hills during a walk led by the Trust’s Director Cecily Miller and Program Coordinator Jonathan Clark. $9

Announcing The Great Boston Poetry Marathon!

At Sunrise, Monday, May 24, get ready for the biggest poets BASH of the new century!

Starting in Provincetown, at the grave of Stanley Kunitz, and ending at sunrise Tuesday, in Gloucester, we'll take a caravan to the graves of over Forty-Eight Poets in 1 DAY! That is 2 Poets' Graves per hour, which will smash the previous literary land speed record.

Along the way we'll have someone reading poetry at each grave. Mark your calenders NOW.

PS (not everyone has to start in Provincetown, you can meet up with the caravan in Chinatown, for breakfast, near where Phyllis Wheatley arrived as a slave child, before becoming the poetic wonder of Boston. Or, meet in Mt. Auburn, or Concord, for the middle and/or end of the marathon.)

Check out the map: We'll be going to Mt. Auburn,  Poets Ridge in Concord, Jack Kerouac, Harriet Stowe, Charles Olson, John Whittier, Anne Sexton, E E. Cummings, John O'Reilly, Charles Sprague, Michael Wigglesworth, Jones Very, Richard Henry Dana.

Anybody Got a Magic Bus?

I want it, I want it, I want it, sang the Who, about a magic bus. That's what we need: a Magick Bus to take a whole school of poets around on the Great Boston Poetry Marathon.

If you have a van or school bus, and can use it for 24 hours (need at least one shared driver), then please consider joining our historic Poetry Marathon through the graveyards and churchyards of Boston.

Dead Poets of Vermont & New Hampshire Online

The Dead Poets of Vermont & New Hampshire Map is now online. You can find out the grave location of your favorite past poet from Vermont or New Hampshire, as well as help find the location of some not known. (We know this is quite incomplete. You can always send in more names and locations in the comments.)

"One Art" Elizabeth Bishop

Visit the grave of Elizabeth Bishop and hear "One Art" introduced and read by two of her biggest Worcester fans. This is part of the Dead Poets Video Project.

"One Art" By Elizabeth Bishop from ChiefFallingLeaf on Vimeo.

Dead Poets of Massachusetts is Online

Check out the Dead Poets of Massachusetts Map. Perhaps more dead poets per capita than any State in the Union!