The Dead Poets of New England

Boston Marathon a Winner!

The Great Boston Poetry Marathon was a huge success! From 6:15 AM in Gloucester, to sunset on Author's Ridge, in Concord, the whole day was a remarkable time of celebration and remembrance.

We'll be posting pictures and videos here in future weeks, as well as a final report on the event. Thanks to all for such a fantastic day of history, poetry and fun!

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.

Historic Grand Tour Report Now Online

The initial report of the historic Dead Poets Grand Tour 2010 is now online.

It chronicles all the places visited and the names of the poets read. From the Report: 

"We started on Shakespeare’s birthday, in Portland, Maine, the 23^rd of April, and we ended with a bang 6,500 miles later at the first Boston Poetry Marathon, May 25th. During those 34 days, and with the cooperation of 13 current and former State Poets Laureate, we held a Dead Poets Bash in 19 different States and visited 43 cemeteries!

The Grand Tour map can be accessed at the top left corner of the Dead Poets Society of America blog:  http://deadpoets.typepad.com/dpsablog/  

The other readings and interviews we held at poets’ graves and houses were really great as well, including the Lorine Niedecker home, the Carl Sandburg home, the E.L. Masters home, the Sidney Lanier house, The Virginia Military Institute, The Poe Museum, the Longfellow House and the Woodberry Poetry Room, at Harvard.

All totaled we visited the graves of 75 American poets, and heard the amazing poetry of over 100 American poets read. Dedgar and the crew kept up a pace of just over 191.18 miles per day and 2 poets’ graves per day!

The initial report of the historic Dead Poets Grand Tour 2010 is now online.

It chronicles all the places visited and the names of the poets read. From the Report: 

"We started on Shakespeare’s birthday, in Portland, Maine, the 23^rd of April, and we ended with a bang 6,500 miles later at the first Boston Poetry Marathon, May 25th. During those 34 days, and with the cooperation of 13 current and former State Poets Laureate, we held a Dead Poets Bash in 19 different States and visited 43 cemeteries!

The Grand Tour map can be accessed at the top left corner of the Dead Poets Society of America blog:  http://deadpoets.typepad.com/dpsablog/  

The other readings and interviews we held at poets’ graves and houses were really great as well, including the Lorine Niedecker home, the Carl Sandburg home, the E.L. Masters home, the Sidney Lanier house, The Virginia Military Institute, The Poe Museum, the Longfellow House and the Woodberry Poetry Room, at Harvard.

All totaled we visited the graves of 75 American poets, and heard the amazing poetry of over 100 American poets read. Dedgar and the crew kept up a pace of just over 191.18 miles per day and 2 poets’ graves per day!

Updated Schedule for the Boston Poetry Marathon

The Map for the Boston Poetry Marathon has the updated schedule.

No more breakfast in Chinatown. Forest Hills is still 10:00  // Harvard Square is 12:30. // Mt. Auburn is 2:00. Will get going right away; no waiting. //  Concord's Author's Ridge is now at 7:00 to 7:45  //  We will no longer have the Midnight to Sunrise section of the journey.//  We will still meet at sunrise at Gloucester, MA.

Updated Schedule for The Great Boston Poetry Marathon

From sunrise, May 24^th, in Provincetown, to sunrise May 25^th, in Gloucester, the Great Boston Poetry Marathon will take place, during which we are hoping to visit 43 different gravesites, having some readings at some of them.

Nothing like this has been done in American literary history, and the Dead Poets Society of America is pleased to invite poets in the Boston area to participate in this 24-hour event.

Readers can meet up with Dedgar The Poemobile along the route at specific times, or join the caravan from the beginning or in Boston. Approximate times at cemeteries are below:

Those wishing to read a poem or ask about our progress traveling may phone : 207-449-8122

http://deadpoets.typepad.com/the_dead_poets_of_massach/

5:12 AM Sunrise.  Provincetown, MA

1 - 3. Start at the graves of Stanley Kunitz & Elise Asher. Also Norman Mailer

9:00 AM Chinatown

4. Near the plaque for Phyllis Wheatley.

9:15 AM Central Burial Ground (Boston Commons)

5. Meet at the grave of Charles Sprague, the Banker Poet of Boston.

10 AM to 10:45 Forrest Hills Cemetery
6. Anne Sexton; 7 E. E. Cummings; 8. James Freeman Clarke; 9. Eugene O'Neill

11:15 AM Hollyhood Cemetery, Brookline. 584 Heath Street, Chesnut Hill

10. John O'Reily

12:30 Harvard Square.

11. Washington Allston; 12. Richard Henry Dan

2:00 to 4:30 PM Mt. Auburn Cemetery (20 Poets!) (13-33)

Henry Longfellow; Buckminster Fuller; Margaret Fuller; Robert Creeley; Frances Sargent Osgood;

Thomas Gold Appleton; John Pierpont Sr.; Charles Eliot Norton; Fanny Parnell; Christopher Pease Cranch;

John Ciardi; Nathaniel Parker Willis; Maria White Lowell; Louise Chandler Moulton; Amy Lowell; Gamaliel Bradford; Julia Ward Howe; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Thomas Bailey Aldrich; David McCord;

7:00 to 7:45 Author's Ridge, Concord MA

35. Ralph Waldo Emerson; 36. Louisa May Alcott; 37 Nathaniel Hawthorne; 38. William Channing; 39. Henry Thoreau

8:30 PM Malden. (After Mt. Auburn)

40. Michael Wigglesworth

SALEM at 9:15 PM

41. .Jones Very (Salem)

5:12 AM, Tuesday the 25th. New Gloucester Beach.

42. Vincent Ferrini                                                                        Henry Ferrini

43. Charles Olson. New Gloucester Cemetery