How to Write Iambic Pentameter in 13 Minutes: A Video by Andrew Benson Brown The Society November 27, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Education, Poetry 27 Comments . https://youtu.be/ayfBdVJxeKk . . Andrew Benson Brown's epic-in-progress, Legends of Liberty, chronicles the major events of the American...
800 Years of the Sonnet in 12 Minutes: A Video by Andrew Benson Brown The Society November 12, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Essays, Poetry 11 Comments . https://youtu.be/B9aMXFVpFEk . . Andrew Benson Brown's epic-in-progress, Legends of Liberty, chronicles the major events of the American...
‘Lucifer’s Lament’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant: Reading and Video by Andrew Benson Brown The Society October 29, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Culture, Poetry, Readings 14 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5zId3BCl6M . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in a few journals. His...
‘Washington’s Armor’ from Andrew Benson Brown’s Mock Epic Poem The Society October 15, 2024 Epic, Poetry 8 Comments . Washington’s Armor Under a watchful sky, a thick, long snake Was slithering: red regulars and blue Virginians groaned while dragging banners to...
‘Henry Knox in His Bookstore’ from Andrew Benson Brown’s Mock Epic Poem The Society September 17, 2024 Epic, Poetry, Readings, Video 22 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtNh_jWAzKU . Henry Knox in His Bookstore ---from Legends of Liberty, Volume 3 The chiming of a doorway’s...
Tools for Writing Classical Poetry—Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown The Society August 25, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Education, Essays, Poetry, Video 26 Comments . https://youtu.be/o4TS45A7KEM . Tools for Writing Classical Poetry ---adapted from the video by Andrew Benson Brown Do you want to be forgotten...
‘Washington Assumes Command at Cambridge’: from the Mock Epic Poem by Andrew Benson Brown The Society August 11, 2024 Epic, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments . Washington Assumes Command at Cambridge from Legends of Liberty, Volume 3 Devoted Billy Lee, a stalking fox, Observed his master’s swaying...
‘Washington Departs from Mount Vernon’: from the Mock Epic Poem by Andrew Benson Brown The Society July 28, 2024 Epic, Humor, Poetry 20 Comments . Washington Departs from Mount Vernon from Legends of Liberty, Volume 3 “Wouldn’t you rather stay?” Watching her doveOf sixteen summers,...
‘Washington and the Cherry Tree’: Excerpt from the Mock Epic Poem by Andrew Benson Brown The Society July 14, 2024 Epic, Humor, Poetry 25 Comments . Washington and the Cherry Tree from Legends of Liberty, Volume 3 Young George chopped down his father’s cherry tree, Not knowing that a woman...
‘The Rise of Washington’: Excerpt from the Mock Epic Poem by Andrew Benson Brown The Society July 1, 2024 Epic, Humor, Poetry 18 Comments . The Rise of Washington from Legends of Liberty, Volume 3 IT’S TIME! Let’s give our story’s star some space. He’s famous through the land,...
Book Review: Legends of Liberty Volume II by Andrew Benson Brown The Society June 7, 2024 Poetry, Reviews 4 Comments . Book Reviewed: Legends of Liberty Volume II by Andrew Benson Brown, Bard Owl Publishing, March 2024 by Theresa Werba Andrew Benson Brown has...
‘King George III Declares War’ from Vol. 2 of Andrew Benson Brown’s Mock Epic Poem The Society May 19, 2024 Epic, Humor, Poetry 17 Comments . King George III Declares War from Legends of Liberty, Volume 2 Note: The British have won a pyrrhic victory at Bunker Hill. King George, who has...
An Interview with Poet Brian Yapko: Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown The Society May 5, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Essays, Interviews, Poetry 18 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR0MktU78bA . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in a few journals. His...
Are Epic Heroes Toxic?—Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown The Society April 21, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Culture, Essays, Poetry, Reviews 11 Comments . https://youtu.be/ICEvMGx4WnY . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in a few journals. His epic-in-progress, Legends of...
‘Miss Pronoun-ciation’: A Poem by Andrew Benson Brown The Society April 15, 2024 Poetry, Satire 47 Comments . Miss Pronoun-ciation She know how Grammar Nazis be all anal. Their like theyre fancy, boring words—so banal. When grading papers, allways giving...
Andrew Benson Brown Reads Poems by S.J. Bryant, Erlandson, Binns, Maibach, and Cooper The Society March 22, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Poetry, Readings 10 Comments ...
Legends of Liberty — Prologue Read by Andrew Benson Brown The Society March 8, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Epic, Poetry, Readings 21 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGLFPOccCAI https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7NwnsyJD044?feature=share . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems...
Short Poems of C.B. Anderson Read by Andrew Benson Brown The Society February 22, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Poetry, Readings 13 Comments ...
What Happened to Great Poetry?—A Video by Andrew Benson Brown The Society February 8, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Essays, Poetry 33 Comments . . . What Happened to Great Poetry? by Andrew Benson Brown When was the last time you sat down and thoroughly enjoyed a serious poem written by a...
‘The Fall of Time: A Haiku Sonnet’ by Andrew Benson Brown The Society February 5, 2024 Haiku and Senryu, Love Poems, Poetry 46 Comments . The Fall of Time A Haiku Sonnet . Thinning coat of frost Whitening the ground with grief— Love forever lost Wrinkles on the leaf Yellowing a...
Bunker Hill in Poetry: The Death of Joseph Warren, by Andrew Benson Brown The Society January 14, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Epic, Poetry 14 Comments . Bunker Hill: The Death of Joseph Warren from Legends of Liberty, Volume 2 Dramatis Personae Joseph Warren – Physician, spymaster, and major...
Andrew Benson Brown Reads Poems by D. Robin, Tessitore, Freeman, A. Casey, Dickey, and Tweedie The Society January 10, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Poetry, Readings 9 Comments ...
Aesop’s ‘The Tortoise and the Hare’ (Crisell Adaptation) and Other Classics Read by Andrew Benson Brown The Society January 3, 2024 Children's, Classical Poets Live, Poetry, Readings 9 Comments ...
A Video Excerpt of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Reading, by Andrew Benson Brown The Society December 27, 2023 Alliterative, Classical Poets Live, Poetry, Readings 16 Comments . https://youtu.be/MZLhwCyQLcs . Read the complete translated text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight here. . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems...
Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’: Adapted by Talbot Hook, Read by Andrew Benson Brown The Society December 22, 2023 Classical Poets Live, Culture, Poetry, Readings 4 Comments . A Christmas Carol Complete text here:...
Andrew Benson Brown Reads Poems by Sally Cook, Sancia Milton, Yapko, and Tweedie The Society December 18, 2023 Classical Poets Live, Poetry, Readings 8 Comments ...
Andrew Benson Brown Reads ‘Odysseus Strings His Bow’ from Homer’s Odyssey, Solot Translation The Society December 11, 2023 Classical Poets Live, Homer, Poetry, Readings 9 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KTgWaNsnpE . . The Odyssey, 21.388-22.125, translated with an eye on Homer's instinctively cinematic style. by...
Andrew Benson Brown Reads Poems by J. Kemper, Corey, Pietrack, M. Bryant, and Anderson The Society December 4, 2023 Classical Poets Live, Poetry, Readings 15 Comments ...
The Battle of Bunker Hill in Epic Poetry, by Andrew Benson Brown The Society October 18, 2023 Culture, Epic, Humor, Poetry 18 Comments . Bunker Hill an excerpt from the forthcoming Legends of Liberty, Vol. 2 . The Eve of Battle The midnight moon. The month of June. A neck Of land. A...
‘In a Soviet Gulag’ by Evan Mantyk: Read by Andrew Benson Brown The Society May 22, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Readings, Satire, Video 13 Comments ...
‘The Devil Comes to Buckingham’ from Legends of Liberty: Volume 2, by Andrew Benson Brown The Society May 12, 2023 Epic, Poetry, Satire 14 Comments . The Devil Comes to Buckingham from Legends of Liberty: Volume 2 One day as Britons cheered their sovereign’s sight, The devil crawled into his...
‘Byron Swims the Hellespont’ by Joseph S. Salemi: A Reading by Andrew Benson Brown The Society May 6, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Readings, Video 8 Comments . If you enjoy this video from Andrew Benson Brown's Classical Poets Live, please click on "Watch on YouTube" and then press like and...
Classical Poets Live (CPL) with Andrew Benson Brown – Episode 1: Why Classical Poetry? The Society April 28, 2023 Classical Poets Live, Interviews, Poetry, Video 16 Comments . This inaugural episode features an interview with Society of Classical Poets' co-founder and editor Evan Mantyk who talks about the founding of the...
“John Adams in Heaven,” from Legends of Liberty by Andrew Benson Brown The Society January 22, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Epic, Poetry 18 Comments . John Adams in Heaven John and Abigail Adams are being guided through heaven by John Milton. He takes them to a villa in the Elysian Fields, where...
‘Arrival of Spring’ and Other Humorous Love Poems by Andrew Benson Brown The Society December 17, 2022 Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 26 Comments . Arrival of Spring Each wing delivers news of a young earth: The nightingale, the end of moonless woes, The dove, the peace of melting mountain...
Legends of Liberty, Volume 2: ‘Lightning Ben’ by Andrew Benson Brown The Society December 1, 2022 Culture, Epic, Humor, Poetry 31 Comments . Lightning Ben an excerpt from Legends of Liberty, Volume 2 Sing, muse! Bestow your gifts on—blah blah blah. I opened my first book with that. You...
Classical Poetry and the Martial Ethos: An Essay by Andrew Benson Brown The Society June 13, 2022 Culture, Essays, Homer, Poetry 6 Comments . Classical Poetry and the Martial Ethos by Andrew Benson Brown . The Heroic Age Towards the end of “Egil’s Saga,” one of the masterpieces of...
‘Gravitas’ by Andrew Benson Brown: On the Sack of Rome, 390 B.C. The Society June 6, 2022 Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . "Gravitas" On the Sack of Rome by the Gauls in 390 B.C. adapted from Livy’s “Ab Urbe Condita,” Book V, Chapters 38-42 The sunset torched the...
‘Hymn to Aurora’ by Andrew Benson Brown The Society April 16, 2022 Beauty, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 27 Comments . Hymn to Aurora 1 Aurora, rise and cast your curls Of daybreak through the vapor swirls To drape my face in scarlet beams— Since you left...
‘Glastonbury’ and Other Poetry by Andrew Benson Brown The Society October 30, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 23 Comments . Glastonbury A deathless tree stood witness while The marshlands round a nearby isle Were drained and bared a hill forlorn; A lonesome tree, long in...