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  • The Importance of Modern Poetry

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    Poetry. The word itself was enough to incite a chorus of moans and groans in many high school or college standard literature classes. Stumbling through Dickinson, Eliot, or Tennyson was bewildering enough to cause most students to swear off the genre as a plague on personal sanity. As of a few years…

  • Writing Ekphrasis Poetry

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    Do you ever see a painting or photograph that speaks to you? An entire story that unfolds in your mind and begs you to write it? Odds are you haven’t heard of ekphrasis poetry—not the technical name, anyway. Most of us don’t even know what the word ekphrasis means, but…

  • Great Poets: Our Top Picks

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    April is National Poetry Month, so here at the press we are honoring the great poets whose poetry has inspired us. Like all great writers, poets have a way of eliciting emotion from the words they write and the pictures they paint in our minds. Here are some of our…