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The Best Poems of 2022: Winners of SCP International Poetry Competition

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February 1, 2023
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The Best Poems of 2022: Winners of the 11th Annual SCP International Poetry Competition Judges Joseph S. Salemi, James Sale, Evan Mantyk Past First Place Winners James A. Tweedie (2021) Susan Jarvis Bryant...

The Best Poems of 2021

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February 1, 2022
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The Best Poems of 2021: Winners of the 10th Annual International SCP Poetry Competition JudgesJoseph S. SalemiJames SaleEvan Mantyk Past First Place Winners Susan Jarvis Bryant (2020)Joseph Charles MacKenzie...

The 10 Best Love Poems of 2021

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January 30, 2022
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. The 10 Best Love Poems of 2021 What makes a great love poem? Love is such an emotionally charged topic that the answers to that question are going to vary tremendously depending on who you ask. But all the...

The 21 Best Haiku of 2021

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September 5, 2021
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Winner and Runners-up of the Society of Classical Poets 2021 Haiku Competition Judged by Margaret Coats (see her remarks below) See all entrants here. . WINNER . Fog enshrouds the nightWoven in the heavy...

The Best Poems of 2020

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February 1, 2021
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The Best Poems of 2020: Winners of the 9th Annual International SCP Poetry Competition JudgesJoseph S. SalemiJames SaleEvan Mantyk Past First Place Winners Joseph Charles MacKenzie (2019) Adam Sedia (2018)...

The 17 Best Haiku of 2020

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August 15, 2020
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Winner and Runners-up of The Society of Classical Poets 2020 Haiku Competition Judged by Mike Bryant and Susan Jarvis Bryant See all entrants here.   Thunder-bellied clouds Move slow over heathered...

The Best Poems of 2019

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February 1, 2020
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The Best Poems of 2019: Winners of 8th Annual International SCP Poetry Competition Thank you to everyone who participated! It was an epic year with an incredible number of exceptional poets contributing their...

Lord Byron’s Darkest Secrets and Greatest Poetry

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October 19, 2019
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This piece is sponsored by KidSecured by Evan Mantyk and Kathy Brellan Lord Byron was born George Gordon Byron in London on January 22, 1788 and died just 36 years later in 1824. Yet, despite his short...

The Eight Greatest Poems of William Wordsworth

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October 6, 2018
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by Charles Eager William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in 1770—the same year as gave us Beethoven, Hegel, and Hölderlin—and died at the age of eighty, rich in the knowledge of his...

10 Greatest Shakespeare Sonnets: An Immortal Series

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April 8, 2018
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By David B. Gosselin William Shakespeare (baptized April 26, 1564 - died April 23, 1616) is arguably the greatest writer in any language. His poetry is not only one of the most exalted examples of what an...

Essay: On Edgar Allan Poe’s Search for Supernal Beauty and His Five Greatest Poems

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February 12, 2018
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. by David Bellemare Gosselin Today, seldom is Edgar Allan Poe's voice heard as it's drowned out by the popular notions of Poe as some sort of deranged man whose stories and poetry are simply the product of...

Rediscovering Percy Shelley’s Greatest Work: ‘Prometheus Unbound, with Other Poems’

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January 25, 2018
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By Brett Forester Writing but one fine, enduring poem is a remarkable achievement. Writing a book of great poems is an even rarer triumph. Yet in 1820, British Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (born...

10 Greatest Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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January 2, 2018
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (born February 27, 1807 - died March 24, 1882) was an American poet of the Romantic period. He served as a professor at Harvard University and was an adept linguist, traveling...

10 Greatest Poems by John Keats

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December 22, 2017
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by Annabelle Fuller John Keats (born October 31, 1795 - died February 23, 1821) began life as the son of a stable-owner, and ended it as an unmarried, poor and tuberculosis-ridden young man. Somewhere along...

Ten of the Best Poems by Robert Frost (that you’ve probably never read)

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November 24, 2017
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by Dusty Grein The Man 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...

10 Greatest Poems Written by John Milton

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November 7, 2017
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John Milton (Born December 9, 1608 – died November 8, 1674) was an English poet of the late Renaissance period. He is most noted for his epic poem on the fall of Satan and Adam and Eve’s ejection from the...

10 Greatest Novels Ever Written

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January 1, 2017
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By Evan Mantyk From The Iliad, Beowulf, and Shakespearean literature in the West to the Chinese Classic of Poetry, the Indian Ramayana, and the Middle Eastern Epic of Gilgamesh, classical poetry is the...

10 Greatest Love Poems Ever Written

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October 27, 2016
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by Conrad Geller People are always asking "What are the best love poems?" or "Where can I find something beautiful to say to the woman I love?" or "...to the man I love?" If you are looking for love poems in...

10 Greatest Poems about Death: A Grim Reader

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September 29, 2016
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By Conrad Geller Poets demonstrably know nothing about death since it is, in Hamlet’s phrase, “the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns.” Yet from the Egyptian Book of the Dead...

10 Greatest English Sonnets Concerning Other Poets

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February 7, 2016
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by Reid McGrath I forewarn you that these are the 10 greatest English Sonnets addressed to or concerning other poets and are not even the 10 greatest short poems concerning other poets. There are innumerable...

10 Greatest Poems Ever Written

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January 7, 2016
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Updated: September 4, 2021 by Evan Mantyk What is poetry? What is great poetry? The poems below answer these questions. From least greatest (10) to greatest greatest (1), the poems in this list are limited to...

Five Greatest Poems by Robert Frost

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August 20, 2012
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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...




  1. Mary Gardner on ‘The Great War’: A Poem by Mary GardnerMay 29, 2023

    Thank you, Joseph. Trochaic meter commands the reader's attention; iambic tends to be dreamy.

  2. Mark Stellinga on ‘America’: A Memorial Day Poem by Susan Jarvis BryantMay 29, 2023

    A superb tribute to our seriously ailing nation and to all those who fought and continue to fight for her,…

  3. Joshua C. Frank on ‘America’: A Memorial Day Poem by Susan Jarvis BryantMay 29, 2023

    I agree: America can’t return to its former greatness unless we return to Christian faith. Sadly, even professing “Christians” in…

  4. Joshua C. Frank on ‘America’: A Memorial Day Poem by Susan Jarvis BryantMay 29, 2023

    Susan, as a native-born American, I have to say, this is wonderful, especially coming from one who was born outside…

  5. Margaret Coats on ‘Red Flags’: A Sestina Sonnet by Joshua C. FrankMay 29, 2023

    Very rarely do I say, "these are all great," but this collection shows you as a poet of power, Josh.…

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