‘Paperbark Maples’: A Poem by Daniel Kemper The Society August 14, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 17 Comments . Paperbark Maples The leaves grow bright with dew; the trunks grow dark. A contrapuntal autumn morning stirs. The smoothest trees are wrapped with...
‘If You Want to Get Someone’s Attention’ and Other Poems by Daniel Kemper The Society July 29, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 13 Comments . . If You Want to Get Someone’s Attention If you want to get someone's attention, then whisperor commit a mistake that continues the momentfor a...
A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part V: ‘Nose Blind,’ by Daniel Kemper The Society July 15, 2024 Essays, Poetry, Poetry Forms, Readings 22 Comments . A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part V: Nose Blind by Daniel Kemper After a stressful day, because of issues with which you, dear reader need not...
‘Becoming a Poet Laureate’: A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part IV, by Daniel Kemper The Society July 1, 2024 Essays, Poetry, Readings 17 Comments . A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part IV: Becoming a Poet Laureate by Daniel Kemper Inflationary times. The invisible hands of markets or of...
A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part III: Something in the Rafters, by Daniel Kemper The Society June 17, 2024 Essays, Poetry 23 Comments . A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part III: Something in the Rafters by Daniel Kemper I wander into the incandescent glow of the poetry center and...
‘The Figure Skater’ and Other Poems by Daniel Kemper The Society June 3, 2024 Beauty, Music, Poetry 14 Comments . The Figure Skater Across the frozen way, stamping, sprinting, faster as hurried steps display something that she'll master her body starts to...
‘AI’s Promise’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Kemper The Society May 20, 2024 Culture, Poetry 24 Comments . AI's Promise What is the latest ingenious ability makers have made out as mental agility? Smoothly unveiling the newest utility, __though it...
A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic, Part II of An Essay Series by Daniel Kemper The Society May 6, 2024 Essays, Poetry 22 Comments . A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part II: The First Reader by Daniel Kemper Keith stands up semi-gracefully in the dead center of the metal...
‘Another Coffee Shop, Another Crush’: Poems by Daniel Kemper The Society April 22, 2024 Love Poems, Poetry 22 Comments . Another Coffee Shop, Another Crush Another coffee shop, another crush, a moment frozen just before my turn, a chance to grin and let her make me...
A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic, Part I of An Essay Series by Daniel Kemper The Society April 8, 2024 Essays, Poetry 18 Comments . A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part I: Before the Reading by Daniel Kemper A two-story, square shaped “U” made of corrugated tin. Two...
‘For Paavo Nurmi’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Kemper The Society March 11, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry 23 Comments . For Paavo Nurmi who trained against his stop-watch and in medias rez we begin as the runners approach the penultimate turn. Though their torsos are...
‘Left Outside’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Kemper The Society February 3, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 10 Comments . Left Outside The shopping cart, precisely ordered now while searching for those perfect little lines of lights for decorations---anyhow, I'm sure...
‘The Barista’s Hands’ and Other Sonnets by Daniel Kemper The Society January 6, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 23 Comments . The Barista’s Hands Surprisingly, she knew my name and used the chance to give a fleeting glimpse and catch me off my guard. I cocked my head,...
‘Carving Fingers’: A Poem by Daniel Kemper The Society November 10, 2023 Art, Beauty, Poetry 27 Comments . Carving Fingers "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." ---St. Paul Percy exhales with a scowl and he spits. In his hickory fingers,...
‘A Bagatelle for Brokenness’ by Daniel Kemper The Society August 12, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 24 Comments . A burst of laughter slips into an echo past the tinny bells and rattling glass of Joe's, my corner liquor store, the last and first of every...
‘A Personal Relationship’ by Daniel Kemper The Society May 7, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . Part II of the Coffee Trilogy. (Part I can be found here.) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ...
‘An Intelligent Cup of Coffee’ by Daniel Kemper The Society March 20, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 33 Comments . “That must have been some cup of coffee!” ---Charles Ellik The coffee spins and I am not the same. The time in which I move is muddy,...
‘The Tango Argentine’ by Daniel Kemper The Society March 6, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . Do they still dance on old walkwayswith lowered shoulders, mastered breathand almost martial, measured gazethough one that's bent on life, not...
‘Every Little Thing’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Kemper The Society January 18, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Poetry Forms 61 Comments X Every Little Thing I. His Version She treasured every little thing that you gave her: the sparrow necklace (hazel blueto...
‘Stepfather’ by Daniel Kemper The Society December 23, 2020 Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . The hills that Joseph meditated on were black and just a bit like elephants, but if somehow they counterpointed dawn, there was no sign of its...
‘Yearning for Castles and Gargoyles’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Kemper The Society November 6, 2020 Art, Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 11 Comments Yearning for Castles and Gargoyles Among the towers never made of ivory, protruding lewdly over walls of mottled stone, misshapen forms,...
‘News of the Revolution’ by Daniel Kemper The Society October 7, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 4 Comments News of the Revolution Revolt or riot? Both? Or civil war? No matter what, who hasn't realized the revolution's being televised. The...
‘The Harvest of an Ancient Past’ by Daniel Kemper The Society October 7, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments The harvest of an ancient past can waft to mind as we enjoy a measured taste of last year's blend. The darlings who were chased down...
‘Before the Plague’ by Daniel Kemper The Society September 5, 2020 Beauty, Covid-19, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments Before the plague I never knew my hands. The need to purify the human touch has turned my vision inward, but though much is taken; much...
‘Alexander’ by Daniel Kemper The Society April 14, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments As Alexander rose upon a hill, somewhere east of King Darius’s dust, at once a pure, serene and awful still undoes the man. For conquer...
Request for Papers on Poetry and Poetics for PAMLA 2024 Conference The Society April 3, 2024 Essays, Poetry 1 Comment (Advertisement) Request for Papers---PAMLA 2024 Conference Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association . Deadline for Proposals: April 30,...
Society of Classical Poets Journal X Published The Society May 24, 2022 From the Society, Poetry 9 Comments . The Society of Classical Poets Journal X has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those published on the SCP...
Society of Classical Poets Journal IX Published The Society June 27, 2021 From the Society, Poetry 3 Comments . The Society of Classical Poets Journal IX has been published. It features poetry selected from poetry published on the SCP website between February...
‘Back to The Beginning’ by Mike Bryant The Society June 10, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 45 Comments . “I want answers. I want all the words the poem whispers to be made flesh, to sit opposite me, and to shout out the reason for our existence…”...
Metrical Variation: Part I, Freedom from Concession The Society May 29, 2021 Essays, Poetry 35 Comments by Daniel Kemper “Metrical variation” is widely used in discussing late twentieth and early twenty-first century poetry writing. Although this...
The Best Poems of 2020 The Society February 1, 2021 Best Poems, From the Society, Poetry, Poetry Contests 28 Comments The Best Poems of 2020: Winners of the 9th Annual International SCP Poetry Competition JudgesJoseph S. SalemiJames SaleEvan Mantyk Past First Place...
The Divine Significance of the Coronavirus: Three Poems on the Wuhan Flu The Society March 12, 2020 Covid-19, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 93 Comments The Crown of Wuhan by Daniel Kemper "Hast thou forgot me then?" says she of dreams, "A Goddess arm'd Out of thy head I sprung... Come see...
The Society of Classical Poets Journal XI Published The Society April 16, 2023 From the Society, Poetry 10 Comments . The Society of Classical Poets Journal XI has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those published on the...
