New Works of Classic Byzantine Iconography The Society September 14, 2012 Art By Tim Gebhart In a little studio in Madison, Wis., Drazen Dupor carries on a tradition that flourished in the sixth century—the art of Byzantine iconography. The techniques of Byzantine iconography...
9/11 Poem: No Cheeks Turn The Society September 13, 2012 Poetry By Aubrey Henderson Reluctantly I emerged from natures Soothing womb; forsaking the assuagement Of community, for the dark lament Emanating from the hearts of strangers In a greyhound station. ...
Prayer Flags The Society September 12, 2012 Poetry By Aubrey Henderson You battle with our demons in the dark. You wake up screaming from your troubled dreams. Memories of the dark day you embarked, On a journey far from the red regime, And left your...
9/11 Poem: Two Streams The Society September 11, 2012 Poetry By Evan Mantyk There is a dark and forceful urge to blame The nine-eleven terrorist attacks On religion, on security gone slack, On our country, for all that we feel shame, There’s also an opposite...
Meredith Bergmann’s ‘September 11th’ The Society September 10, 2012 Art A moving sculpture that vividly depicts a woman with two airplanes crashing into her forearms, Meredith Bergmann's monumental bronze sculpture “September 11th” was unveiled this month in its permanent home...
Play: An Iliad for Our Generation (Act II) The Society September 7, 2012 Poetry 1 Comment In this refashioned version of Homer’s Iliad, the mystical hero Achilles’ clashes with the doubting King Agamemnon over a woman, throwing the fate of the Trojan War, and more, into jeopardy. Click here...
Reverence The Society September 7, 2012 Poetry 1 Comment By Joshua Philipp So deep grown were our rings of sin, lost hope had humankind, lost hope for sight of spring again, our fates could not unwind. Blind and lost, a darkened world, no peace could this...
Writing Poetry with Meter—Beginners’ Level and Beyond The Society September 7, 2012 Education, Essays, From the Society, Poetry Forms 3 Comments . Writing Poetry with Meter---Beginners' Level and Beyond by Evan Mantyk There is very little difficulty behind writing classical poetry from a technical perspective. Classical poetry is simply poetry that is...
Resources for Educators The Society September 7, 2012 Education, Poetry Lesson Plans, Readings with Questions, and Sample Essays: Lesson on the Poetry of Bruce Dale Wise (Society of Classical Poets Competition Winner) Bruce Dale Wise poetry (includes questions) Essay...
Patricia Watwood: Art That Reaffirms Value in Human Life The Society September 6, 2012 Art NEW YORK—Patricia Watwood and two other artists came together in June at the Forbes Galleries, where she held an exhibition to espouse the virtues of contemporary classical realist art while searching for...
Poetry The Society September 6, 2012 Poetry 3 Comments By Tom Zart God has always had his poets Who He watches with love from space. But Satan has his poets too Who try to lead us from our grace. King Solomon was a poet Who spoke of love, life, death and...
Germany Resurrecting Baroque Palace by Popular Demand The Society September 5, 2012 Art By Christian Watjen BERLIN—Standing in a green field in the cultural heart of the German capital, an Italian tourist desperately looks around, and then points at a concrete wall covered in graffiti. “Is...
Satirical Poems on Modern Chinese Society The Society September 5, 2012 Poetry Translated by Gary Pansey Ridiculing Social Status In Their Proper Places First come officials And then of course their boss, Next come the famous With so much dough to toss; Bodyguards hold down...
‘The Vanity of Human Wishes’ by Samuel Johnson The Society September 4, 2012 Poetry 1 Comment Let Observation with extensive View, Survey Mankind, from China to Peru; Remark each anxious Toil, each eager Strife, And watch the busy Scenes of crouded Life; Then say how Hope and Fear, Desire and...
The Watercolors of Jeffrey L. Benson The Society September 1, 2012 Art 1 Comment Jeffrey L. Benson, an artist living in Orland Park, Ill., paints landscapes with architectural elements, in part to preserve the history of old buildings. His realistic paintings are created with transparent...
The God of This World to his Prophet The Society September 1, 2012 Poetry By Bill Coyle Go to the prosperous city, for I have taken pity on its inhabitants, who drink and feast and dance all night in lighted halls yet know their bacchanals lead nowhere in the...
Eleanor Ettinger Gallery: Bastion of Contemporary Realism The Society August 31, 2012 Art NEW YORK—Thirty-five years since it opened its doors in SoHo, the Eleanor Ettinger Gallery is a rarity in New York City. It is one of the last bastions of realist and representational art in a market...
Examples to Follow The Society August 31, 2012 Poetry By Michael T. Young Traffic, a crowd, the tide flooding the bay, whatever will rise and fall, will begin, then end, forgive each moment for what comes along, like wind shoving the clouds, and clouds,...
Play: An Iliad for Our Generation (Act I) The Society August 30, 2012 Poetry In this refashioned version of Homer's Iliad, the mystical hero Achilles clashes with the doubting King Agamemnon over a woman, throwing the fate of the Trojan War, and more, into jeopardy. By Evan...
Primordial Nostalgia The Society August 30, 2012 Poetry By Joshua Philipp At night alone, I sometimes dream of a place which seems so far away. Quietly sitting by a stream. With words this place so hard to say. In distant lands, its legends told of...
Amazing “Grand Central” Painting by Stone Roberts The Society August 29, 2012 Art Like a modern day Norman Rockwell, the monumental works of contemporary realist painter Stone Roberts capture in vivid form and color the beauty of modern America. Among the four works on display is his newly...
Comic: Practicing Falun Gong in China Today The Society August 29, 2012 Art For the full comic by Illustrator:Lam & Joel Benjamin click...
The New Renaissance The Society August 28, 2012 Poetry By Thomas Newton Just as the Renaissance was fueled by The printing press, the Internet has sounded A call for crafted poetry—a cry For quality that has the crude confounded. The plasma screen’s...
The Moral Compass The Society August 28, 2012 Poetry By Thomas Newton The Founding Fathers showed the way and built Our sturdy ships to last through all of time. Each has a moral compass showing guilt And innocence, thus exposing crime. The Western...
Ancient Chinese Poets’ Treatment of Time The Society August 27, 2012 Poetry (Clearwisdom.net) Ancient Chinese people cherished time, which was revealed in their pursuit for the truth and the Dao, the cultivation of one's mind, the establishment of one's virtue and longevity, and a...
Helenium The Society August 27, 2012 Poetry By Aubrey Henderson I remember vast fields of Helenium; Yellow, trembling, dancing with fireflies, In the fading light of nature’s atrium, As the storm rolled in; black clouds and thunder’s...
The Fall in Voter Turnout The Society August 27, 2012 Poetry By Michael T. Young The pine's elected to the maple's post, the fly's buzzword is vetoed by the day, streams in a presidential race all boast in speeches glittering with icy spray. The squirrels lobby...
Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Introduction) The Society August 26, 2012 Poetry 1 Comment On the shores of Gitche Gumee, Of the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood Nokomis, the old woman, Pointing with her finger westward, O'er the water pointing westward, To the purple clouds of sunset....
Math Haikus The Society August 26, 2012 Poetry 3 Comments By Yolanda Marín-Parker Mathematics is The language that nature speaks To the human fool. Fool – man is – for not Listening to the wonder, Patterns and numbers. Math is everywhere: From the...
Poetry by Damian Robin The Society August 26, 2012 Poetry The Wu Wei-ter The Contemporary Artist The Modern Artist On a Wind-brushed...
Zhen Shan Ren Art Exhibit in Wisconsin (Video) The Society August 24, 2012 Art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf-_d7iaRAs&feature=youtu.be The Art of Zhen, Shan, Ren (Truth, Compassion, Tolerance) International Exhibition is an extraordinarily moving, intimate and...
Crossing Samsara The Society August 24, 2012 Poetry 1 Comment By Joshua Philipp The winds of change, so soft they blow. In the blink of an eye, a thousand years. Immeasurable is the great river’s flow, to sail, one must remove his fears. So fine, the ship on...
The Life-changing Art of Li Jinyu The Society August 23, 2012 Art Li Jinyu is an artist living in Brooklyn, New York. Her paintings are strongly influenced by her practice of Falun Gong. According to Faluninfo.net: “Falun Gong is a traditional Chinese spiritual...
The Moon The Society August 22, 2012 Poetry By Dan Skorbach I sit with you the silent moon of May, After the chores of day are soundly sleeping. Here, once again, you come to guide the way, For those who in the night are lost and seeking. You...
President of the Society The Society August 21, 2012 From the Society Evan Mantyk is President of The Society of Classical Poets. He is a poet, writer, and English teacher in the Hudson Valley region of New York, where he lives with his wife and two children. His more recent...
Become a Member The Society August 21, 2012 From the Society 12 Comments The General Public Email [email protected] to be added to our monthly email Newsletter. You are free to read and comment on poetry on this website. You may also submit poetry and enter our...
Hantz Farms The Society August 20, 2012 Poetry By Evan Mantyk The Apocalypse: what would it look like? Half the people now gone, When the gods’ dike That holds back raging waters was half withdrawn. Weeds overgrown, buildings abandoned, Houses...
Heaven’s Gate Opens After History’s Long March The Society August 20, 2012 Poetry Heaven’s Gate Opens After History’s Long March Over 7,000 years of human civilization, how many heroes have taken the stage? Rise and fall, success and failure are like waves gone by, Love, hate,...
Five Greatest Poems by Robert Frost The Society August 20, 2012 Beauty, Best Poems, Culture, Education, Poetry 23 Comments The American poet Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, CA. He spent his first 40 years mostly unknown, and it wasn’t until after returning to the United States from England—where he...
Letting Go The Society August 20, 2012 Poetry By Evan Mantyk Get this thing out of my mind, It should never undermine, It should go and let me be, It should go and I’ll be free! Tear it out from in my heart, From its madness I can part, From...