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After the Fall: Poems Old and New Edward Field, . . Univ. of Pittsburgh, $14 (205pp) ISBN 978-0-8229-5980-9 ...
Though plenty of Victorian sources only note the old, new, borrowed, and blue elements of the poem, others include a fifth line: “and a sixpence in her shoe.” ...
You will eat very old [produce], and you will clear out the old from before the new. ~ Leviticus 26:10 The other day my wife who is cuter than a pomegranate paused from making soup to clean out ...
In the fall of 1923, 99 years ago, the 49-year-old Robert Frost published “New Hampshire,” his fourth collection of new poetry. It won the Pulitzer Prize and endless praise, but more to the point, ...
"Poems old and new are about the power of radio listening." Ian McMillan, presenter of Radio 3's The Verb, celebrates a century of poetry on the BBC.
Yiddish musicians have always adapted poems into song. Two new albums transform the tradition into performance art for the 21st century.
Marshall James Kavanaugh takes a battered old typewriter to a park and lets people give him a prompt for a poem. They walk away with a piece of art.