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THE ENGLISH FROST AND THE AMERICAN BLAKE
This illustration of William Blake was published 200 years ago This year marks the 200th anniversary of America’s 1813 defeat of Great Britain and their American Indian allies for the control of the...
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CAN POETRY APP SUCCESSFULLY CALCULATE MODERN POEMS AS PROFESSIONAL OR AMATEUR?
The Poetry Assessor claims to “determine whether a poem has the characteristics of a professional poem or, alternatively, an amateur poem.” We at Scarriet decided to have some fun with it. This poem,...
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THE NEW PROFESSIONAL POETRY
We are not professional. We never get things right. We take long walks after dark, Whispering rhymes for most of the night. We never took a degree In therapy or law. The past has vanished in silence...
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CATULLUS AND HERRICK VIE FOR SWEET SIXTEEN
Lyric poetry once had simple things to say and said them as memorably as possible. Was that such a bad idea? Here is Catullus, from two thousand years ago, taking on Herrick, from 500 years ago....
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LOVE WITHOUT DESIRE, DESIRE WITHOUT LOVE: 17TH CEN (SUCKLING) VERSUS 20TH...
In this contest between Sir John Suckling’s 400 year old poem, ”If You Refuse Me Once,” and Philip Larkin’s 60 year old poem, “Talking In Bed,” the interest lies not only in looking back at two eras...
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HOLY ROMANTICISM! KEATS TAKES ON WORDSWORTH!
USA! USA! John Keats has a major task before him: slay Wordsworth! William Wordsworth has to be a favorite to win any Romanticism tourney—the serenity of nature betokening our highest spiritual...
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THE VERSE DRAMA: BEN MAZER
At the Grolier (L-R) Amanda Maciel Antunes; Michael Healy; Robert Chalfen; Julia Kleyman; Zachary Bos; Ben Mazer; Allison Vanouse; Jenna Dee; Philip Nikolayev The verse drama ought to wear the crown,...
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BURT AND OTHERS PILE ON HARPER’S POETRY COMPLAINT
Mark Edmundson, professor of English at the University of Virginia We don’t know which is more ridiculous: this fellow Edmundson in HARPER’S honoring Robert Lowell as where poetry—currently lacking...
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THE TWO ACADEMIES
The Academy, for poet/lawyer Seth Abramson, is unfairly attacked when it comes to poetry. The MFA Creative Writing model is healthy, he insists, a hybrid of association and guidance and leisure that...
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WE CAN STILL SAVE POETRY
The most significant change in poetry in the last 200 years has been in both form and subject matter, but formal concerns are really insignificant compared to content, simply because poetry has...
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I HAVE A VIEW: NEW SCARRIET POEM
I have a view Which I would love to share with you. It is a view of the sky, Clouds scattering and bursting above the sun’s eye, Orb new risen, Dispelling night’s prison, As a painter would… I’m...
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HERE WE GO AGAIN: SCARRIET’S POETRY HOT 100!!
1. Mark Edmundson Current Lightning Rod of Outrage 2. David Lehman BAP Editor now TV star: PBS’ Jewish Broadway 3. Rita Dove She knows Dunbar is better than Oppen 4. Matthew Hollis Profoundly...
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WHEN WE DIE
When we die, I shall no longer have the pleasure of looking in your eye As your eye looks back at me. Could God take this away, this so admirable, so lovely? When this goes, I shall no longer have the...
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WHAT IS POETIC VALUE?
The poet Bill Knott made 24th place on Scarriet’s latest Hot 100 List, read by poets everywhere. Bill Knott quickly came on Scarriet making comments disparaging the worth of his own poetry; Mr. Knott...
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I GUESS I COULD MAKE POETRY—NEW SCARRIET POEM
I guess I could make poetry that sings, Poetry that brings Joy upon the linnet’s wings, But I am full of sighs and sadness, And cannot bring my readers gladness. I would rather write, As I like awake...
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METAMODERNISM? LOL
Metamodernism personified: Andy Mister Excuse us while we laugh at Seth Abramson’s latest piffle: “On Literary Metamodernism.” Should we be writing that in all caps? METAMODERNISM! Edgar Allan Poe,...
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IF LOVE SHOULD MAKE ME GREEDY AND UNKIND
A New Sonnet From Scarriet There is a kind of kindness in my greed, Since hungry love breeds virtuous hunger. Joy joys not less to be in need. Resistance will not make us any younger. Love mounts to a...
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POETRY WILL BE DEAD IN 15 MINUTES: OR, ARE MODERNISTS, PO-MOS, AND FLARFISTS...
Vanessa Place: the Mona Lisa of Flarf? We never met a Flarfist, but we’re beginning to wonder if Flarf simply belongs to the 20th century avant-garde art & poetry tradition of Asshole-ism. Paul...
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WHEN POETRY, LOVELY, SPEAKS
When poetry, lovely, speaks, No person dares to sigh, Prose, if it whispers or shrieks, Will not talk, will not even try. When poetry does the talking In a poem by Shelley or Keats, No mortal breathes...
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WHY IS THE MELANCHOLY POETIC?
A contemporary poet would naturally reply to the title of our essay: “The melancholic is not necessarily poetic. A poem can be any mood it wants, and could just as well avoid all moods.” True, and the...
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