David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 12): “Shine, Perishing Republic”
Vive le resistance déjà vu, you say? Are we only a nation that forgets, a United States of Obliviousness?
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Join NOW!Vive le resistance déjà vu, you say? Are we only a nation that forgets, a United States of Obliviousness?
...moreThe inaugural poem is sucking up a lot of the oxygen in the poetry world for now, and with good reason. An inaugural poem is even rarer than the Olympics, and gives poets the chance to really get their gripe on. David Yezzi started a lot of the discussion with his piece on the Wall […]
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