‘The Heart of the Wood’: A Poem and Song by Joseph David Greene
The Heart of the Wood At the edge of the wood it is green, With the leaves all aglow...
Helpful Video Discusses Great American Poetry Competition Guidelines
Competition Judge and Classical Poets Live creator Andrew Benson Brown discusses the competition requirements and gives some background on odes,...
‘Beautiful’: A Poem by Michael Pietrack
Beautiful She cracked a throaty Marlboro laugh that piped her spicy liquored breath into my face. Her blouse hung...
A Reading of the First Chapter of Michael Pietrack’s New Verse Novel ‘Boone’
https://youtu.be/G9FpJcfCcGw Back or Bottom? “Your back or bottom?” Dowdy grabbed the switch, a riding whip, from off...
The First American Sonnets: An Essay on David Humphreys, by Margaret Coats
The First American Sonnets: David Humphreys by Margaret Coats In 1776, the first known sonnet in the United States...
‘A Very Early Taste of Poetry’: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi
A Very Early Taste of Poetry by Joseph S. Salemi The earliest and most important steps in attaining literacy...
Beware the Bots of Baal (Intellectual Takeout)
Extracted from a recent article in Intellectual Takeout by Jeff Minick: Every day a new poem from the Society...
Lincoln the Poet: The American President Who Loved Verse (American Essence)
Extracted from a recent article in American Essence by Marlena Figge: Among the many interesting facts about Abraham...
‘The Sowers’: A Poem by Gabriele D’Annunzio, Translated by Joseph S. Salemi
The Sowers by Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863-1938) translated from Italian by Joseph S. Salemi Strong lads drive the docile oxen...
‘Home’: A Poem by Jeffrey Essmann
Home I wandered lonely, not so much a cloud As more a type of fog, as something cool And...
The Best Poems of 2025: Winners of SCP International Poetry Competition
. The Best Poems of 2025: Winners of the 14th Annual SCP International Poetry Competition Judges C.B. Anderson, Susan Jarvis...
The Best Haiku of 2025: Winners of the 2025 SCP Haiku Competition
. The Best Haiku of 2025 The Winner and Runners-Up of the Society of Classical Poets 2025 Haiku Competition Judged...
The Best Poems of 2024: Winners of SCP International Poetry Competition
. The Best Poems of 2024: Winners of the 13th Annual SCP International Poetry Competition Judges C.B. Anderson, Susan Jarvis...
The Ten Best Poems to Analyze
. The Ten Best Poems to Analyze by Adam Sedia The Roman poet Horace famously set forth the twofold purpose...
10 Poems on Builders & Buildings
10 Poems on Builders & Buildings by Michael Curtis . Temples and architects, builders and buildings are like poets and...
‘Epitaph for a Lost Civilisation’: A Poem by Paul Martin Freeman
Epitaph for a Lost Civilisation "Mine honour is my life; both grow in one: Take honour from me, and...
‘Spontaneous Conjugal Combustion’ and Other Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant
Spontaneous Conjugal Combustion ---a villanelle He simply couldn't turn the other cheek On ceaseless babble drowning out the game....
‘Advice for Tokyo Rose’: A Poem by Brian Yapko
Advice for Tokyo Rose February, 1943---Tokyo, Japanese Empire. Iva D’Aquino---an expatriate American national---is hired by Kenchiki Oki, on behalf of...
‘To May, the Prince of Months’ by Eustache Deschamps, Translated by Margaret Coats
To May, the Prince of Months by Eustache Deschamps (1346–1406), translated from French by Margaret Coats Noble month, father...
‘Undeclared College Major’ and Other Short Poems by Russel Winick
Undeclared College Major Discussing broader options that young women have today, One of my female classmates had a startling...
‘Beautiful’: A Poem by Michael Pietrack
Beautiful She cracked a throaty Marlboro laugh that piped her spicy liquored breath into my face. Her blouse hung...
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