Tag: Poetry

  • Q&A with Gordon McNeer: Bilingual Poet, Professor, and Director of Valparaíso USA

    In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Dr. Gordon McNeer discusses his experiences writing and translating English and Spanish poetry, his role as the director of the bilingual poetry press Valparaíso Editions USA, and the importance of poetry in beginner Spanish classes.

  • The Importance of Modern Poetry

    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

    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…

  • Poetry and Drama in the Renaissance

    The Renaissance was an an awakening in Europe inspired by the reintroduction of Greek and Roman literature after the fall of the Roman Empire. In the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries, artists of all circumstances began experimenting and expressing themselves in new, distinct ways. Two of the main artistic consequences of…

  • Welcome Visiting Spanish Authors

    Join us in welcoming our Spanish-speaking authors to the University of North Georgia. At noon on November 8th we will be hosting a book reading and signing at the Starbucks in the Chestatee building. Come for the poetry and free refreshments. Meet Benjamín Prado, a well-known novelist and author of…

  • The Creativity of the Crowd

    The Crowdsourced Poetry Project is under way! We have three lines so far and are excited to see more contributions to our sestina. Go to our Facebook page to submit your contribution for the next line. Our poem so far: I began to ask myself the questions With answers hanging…

  • A Sestina by Everyone

    A Sestina by Everyone A few weeks ago I was talking with some colleagues about the changing face of literature.  Everyone knows about e-readers and online publications by now, and even blogs are getting a lot of attention.  We started talking about an author who is writing a novel one…

  • Link-N-Blogs: May 10, 2013

    “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” -Leonardo da Vinci Movies based on Poems: it seems like every other new movie that’s coming out is based on a book. But what about other forms of literature? In answer,…