Poetry

7 Great Poetry Books to Read this Poetry Month

By Hannah White National Poetry Month is here! To celebrate this beautiful and distinct literary form I’ve put together a list of some of my favorite poetry books and anthologies…

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Sylvia Plath and Winthrop-By-The-Sea

By Jeffery Round During her early years, Sylvia Plath lived in a number of places in Massachusetts. Of her youthful residences, none is more bleakly picturesque than Winthrop-By-The-Sea and the adjacent…

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An Encounter with William Stafford

A life that gives rise to 51 books in the short span of 79 years can certainly be regarded as literary. William Stafford lived such a life.

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Hannah’s Dream: A Conversation with the Granddaughter of Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas

Literary Traveler is honored to publish the following interview with Jill Paris, author of Life is Like a Walking Safari, and Hannah Florence Ellis, granddaughter of Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and legend. – Carly…

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Beyond Ideology: The Poetry of Separation in South Korea

The haunting parallels of separation and unification that a visit to the DMZ conjure …

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Robinson Jeffers: The Poet and Stone Mason of Tor House

By Victor A. Walsh Carmel by the Sea was a wild, sparsely populated place when the California poet Robinson Jeffers and his wife Una arrived in 1914. Drawn to the…

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Coffee and Bob Kaufman, Poet of the People

By Kerry Lee When I step through the door and catch that first, redolent wisp, that rich, provocative bouquet that doesn’t taste like it smells, I wonder if anyone else…

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“The pears fatten like little buddhas”: Inscribing Sylvia Plath onto Central Java

By Audrey McGlinchy I opened my notebook on a return flight from Jakarta, Indonesia to Chiang Mai, Thailand, my home for the past nine months. In the failing light of…

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Isle of Wight, photo by bortescristian Flickr

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Exploring the Isle of Wight with Alfred Lord Tennyson

The western tip of England’s Isle of Wight was a setting beloved of the Victorian poet laureate, Alfred Lord Tennyson, for the last half of his life. Still beautiful, less populated than the rest of the island and soothingly calm, it is easy to understand his attachment.

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Visiting Pablo Neruda’s Houses

By Ruth Kozak Excerpt from Pablo Neruda “Poet’s Obligation” So through me, freedom and the sea will make their answer to the shuttered heart. I learned about Pablo Neruda from…

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