A Call for Secession: An Essay on Poetry and the Arts by Adam Sedia The Society April 22, 2022 Culture, Essays, Poetry 60 Comments . A Call for Secession by Adam Sedia The fine arts currently lie atrophied in utter decline and degradation. Poetry is no exception. Ever since the...
‘The Poem that Built a Nation: Finland and the Kalevala’: An Essay by Adam Sedia The Society February 28, 2022 Culture, Epic, Essays, Poetry 13 Comments . The Poem that Built a Nation: Finland and the Kalevala by Adam Sedia Nowhere perhaps is the power of poetry more apparent than in its ability to...
Poetry by José de Espronceda, Translated by Adam Sedia The Society January 6, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 5 Comments . Sonnet by José de Espronceda (1808-1842) | translated from Spanish by Adam Sedia Fresh, lush, pure, and perfumed luxuriantly, The blooming...
‘A Flower’ by Alceste De Lollis, Translated by Adam Sedia, and a Sonnet The Society December 14, 2021 Beauty, Poetry, Translation 19 Comments . A Flower for Giannina Milli by Alceste De Lollis (1820-1887) | translated from Italian by Adam Sedia A fragile herb, this blooming flower, I...
‘Incense’ by Adam Sedia The Society August 2, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . A hundred tongues of smoke--- Translucent wisps, lithe specters--- __Rise, snaking languidly, Curling, grasping like tendrils At the light they...
‘Fireworks’ by Adam Sedia The Society July 4, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . The roar of battle rends the moonlit skyWith distant thunder as of cannons booming.And bursting, crashing, popping salvos flyAbove the roar, the...
A Poem on the Near-Earth Asteroid Apophis and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society May 14, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . Apophis Apophis is the name of a near-earth asteroid that passed by our planet a few months ago, a name it shares with the Ancient Egyptian evil...
‘Crocuses’ by Adam Sedia The Society April 18, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 13 Comments . You meekly poke your purple heads Through stubborn clumps of snow That yet persist in fallow beds Though balmy breezes blow; First to hail the...
A Monosyllabic Poem: ‘To West’ by Adam Sedia The Society February 18, 2021 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry, Poetry Forms 8 Comments . Too long, too long, my love, Have we lain out here. Too long, too long, my love, Have our ease, our cheer Fixed us fast, sprawled in cool...
‘Portrait of God’ by Chateaubriand, and Other Translations by Adam Sedia The Society January 15, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 7 Comments . Portrait of God drawn from Scripture by François-René de Chateaubriand (1768-1848), translated by Adam Sedia Know you the jealous God, who dare...
‘Laocoön’ and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society August 3, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments Laocoön To prophesy is not a gift to those So gifted, who can see in subtle signs What is to pass; they bear the double woes Of speaking...
To the Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana in Defense of Father Rothrock, and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society July 6, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 12 Comments Caiaphas To the Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana in defense of Father Rothrock High Priest of Israel’s nameless God __You were, and though...
‘Elegy on a Strauss Waltz’ by Adam Sedia The Society June 3, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 15 Comments The room fills with a charming melody— A choir of violins in soaring flight With basses, cellos pulsing—one, two,...
William Butler Yeats and the Occult: An Essay by Adam Sedia The Society May 19, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Essays, Poetry 27 Comments Clarity and Obscurity Part III Read Part I: The Essences of Classicism and Modernism Compared Read Part II: "Concrete" Poetry and the Fall of...
‘Approaching Storm, Night’ and Other Poems on Spring by Adam Sedia The Society May 3, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments Spring Snow Tyrant Winter reaches __Beyond its frozen tomb, Dares cast its icy mantle __On bud and crocus-bloom. Long it reigned...
‘The New Year’ and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society January 8, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments The New Year The fields stretch out, bare, icy: __Wide, blank, yet-unetched slates, Tabulae rasae, waiting __The chisel of the Fates, But...
‘Cape Horn’ and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society September 7, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, The Environment 9 Comments Cape Horn They lifted anchor, spread the sails, __Quit shores where they were born, Bound for spice isles from doubtful tales __By way of far...
SCP Symposium Readings (Videos): Joseph S. Salemi, James Sale, Adam Sedia, Michael C. Maibach The Society August 7, 2019 Beauty, Culture, From the Society, Humor, Poetry, Readings, Symposium, Video ...
‘Let None Dare Call It Beauty’ by Adam Sedia The Society February 28, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments Let none dare call it beauty that commands Feigned praise from those whom fashion deems refined But deep revulsion from an honest mind Derided for...
‘Arise, You Bones’ and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society January 1, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 15 Comments Arise, You Bones “Come, spirit, from the four winds, and blow upon these slain, and let them live again.” –Ezechiel 37:9 Arise, you bones of...
‘My Garden’ and Other Sonnets by Adam Sedia The Society June 1, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments My Garden Lush, fresh-pruned verdure shades the cobbled path, It bursts with rich-hued blossoms strewn about Whence sweet aromas waft, blend, and...
Poet Bio: Adam Sedia The Society February 20, 2018 Adam Sedia was born in 1984 and lives in Lake County, Indiana, where was born and raised. Unable to decide between science and the arts, he...
‘At Lincoln’s Tomb’ and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society January 28, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 11 Comments At Lincoln’s Tomb Springfield, Illinois, 2016 Be glad you cannot rise to life and stand Outside that tomb to die again from shame At Illinois,...
‘Urban Butterfly’ and Other Poetry and Music by Adam Sedia The Society September 5, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment Urban Butterfly What business have you here, In acrid air, to strain Through jagged glass and steel On a cracked asphalt plain. Faint, shady...
The Best Poems of 2021 The Society February 1, 2022 Best Poems, From the Society, Poetry, Poetry Contests 16 Comments The Best Poems of 2021: Winners of the 10th Annual International SCP Poetry Competition JudgesJoseph S. SalemiJames SaleEvan Mantyk Past First Place...
Winners of the 2022 SCP Poetry Translation Competition Announced The Society February 1, 2022 Poetry, Poetry Contests, Translation 4 Comments . Judges Margaret Coats Evan Mantyk . First Place ($100) Talbot Hook, Connecticut "Mourning the Dead" by Li Qingzhao; "Bamboo-Grove Pavilion" by...
Reading [Classical] Poetry Will Save the World: Crisis Magazine The Society November 14, 2021 Culture, Essays, Poetry 5 Comments . Below is an excerpt from a Crisis Magazine article "Reading Poetry Will Save the World" by Auguste Meyrat, published November 13, 2021. (The...
The SCP Christmas and New Year 2021 Poetry Reading, Online The Society November 13, 2021 From the Society, Poetry, Readings 1 Comment . You are invited to a reading of exquisite poetry and conversations with the poets. This reading is part of a quarterly series of online poetry...
Neglected Gems: The Poetry of Walter de la Mare The Society August 30, 2021 Essays, Poetry 11 Comments by Adam Sedia The life of Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) spans earthshattering changes in history and art. The England into which he was born was a...
Whitman’s Curse: Contemporary Poetry as Solipsism The Society July 17, 2021 Essays, Poetry 28 Comments by Adam Sedia Contemporary poetry is plagued by several characteristic vices: obscurity, banality, nihilism---each a topic for examination in its...
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...
A Beacon in the Darkness: The Poetics and Poetry of Robert Frost The Society March 26, 2021 Essays, Poetry 9 Comments . “A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” ---Robert Frost An Essay by Adam Sedia To many in America, Robert Frost is the grandfatherly...
The Power of One: Monosyllables in Classical Poetry The Society February 18, 2021 Essays, Poetry, Poetry Forms 16 Comments by Adam Sedia The origin of poetry is inextricably tied to music. The earliest poems---the Homeric epics, the Chinese Book of Songs---were all...
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...
Winners of 2021 Poetry Translation Competition Announced The Society February 1, 2021 From the Society, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Translation 4 Comments . Judges Margaret Coats Evan Mantyk . First Place ($100) Francesca Leader, Virginia "The Iroha Poem" by Kūkai (空海) (774–835) . Second...
Poetry Readings from 2020 SCP Symposium – ‘A Celebration of Meter and Rhyme’ (Session II) The Society July 28, 2020 Children's, From the Society, Poetry, Readings, Symposium, Video 1 Comment All of the below poems were read on May 31, 2020 at The Society of Classical Poets Symposium, which was held online due to the pandemic. Below are...
The Spice of Life: Metric Variation in Formal Verse (An Essay) The Society July 13, 2020 Culture, Essays, Poetry, Poetry Forms 15 Comments by Adam Sedia John Dryden In 1688, John Dryden, England’s first official poet laureate, was deprived of that title for remaining Catholic...
The Society of Classical Poets Releases Journal VIII The Society June 12, 2020 From the Society, Poetry 5 Comments The Society of Classical Poets website receives millions of views every year. Visitors read engaging, beautiful, topical verse that...
Online SCP Poetry Symposium 2020 – “A Celebration of Meter and Rhyme” The Society May 1, 2020 From the Society, Readings, Symposium 8 Comments Due to the unprecedented circumstances regarding the CCP virus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Symposium has been moved online. The details of the event...
‘An Open Letter to a Fellow Poet’ and Other Poetry by Denise Sobilo The Society September 2, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 5 Comments An Open Letter to a Fellow Poet for Adam Sedia But why against one poor poet, a hundred men? —Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand) What dreams...
