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An Interview with Poet Brian Yapko: Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown

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May 5, 2024
Classical Poets Live, Essays, Interviews, Poetry
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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR0MktU78bA . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in a few journals. His epic-in-progress, Legends of Liberty, will chronicle the major events of...
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Classical Poets Live: An Interview with C.B. Anderson, Readings of Paterson and Wilbur

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October 25, 2023
Classical Poets Live, Interviews, Poetry, Readings
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. Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown Episode 7 Part 2: C.B. Anderson, Poetical Gardener If you enjoy this video, please like and subscribe on YouTube to support the...
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CPL: Why Amanda Gorman Is Not a Poet, and an Interview with Adam Sedia

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June 30, 2023
Classical Poets Live, Interviews, Poetry, Readings, Video
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. Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown Episode 5 Parts I & II: Why Amanda Gorman Is Not a Poet / Building a Renaissance  If you enjoy this video, please like and subscribe on YouTube to...
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CPL: ChatGPT Poetry Quiz, Lillian-Yvonne Betram, Interview with James A. Tweedie, and More

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June 11, 2023
Classical Poets Live, Interviews, Poetry, Readings, Reviews, Video
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. Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown Episode 4: Poetry in the Age of AI If you enjoy this video, please like and subscribe on YouTube to support the...
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CPL: Reading of FoFG Poetry Competition Winner, Interview with James Sale, and More

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May 30, 2023
Classical Poets Live, Epic, Human Rights in China, Interviews, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Readings, Video
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. Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown Episode 3: Embrace the Epic, Not the Opaque If you enjoy this video, please like and subscribe on YouTube to support the production. . Podcast on Spotify:...
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CPL: Pulitzer Prize Winner, Sally Cook, Interview with Susan Jarvis Bryant, Thomas Gray, and More

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May 13, 2023
Classical Poets Live, Interviews, Poetry, Readings, Video
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. Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown Episode 2: Fake Poets and Hollow Prestige . Audio version available here: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7nbFbs2YtvlgZ2B4RtQOcG Apple Music:...
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Classical Poets Live (CPL) with Andrew Benson Brown – Episode 1: Why Classical Poetry?

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April 28, 2023
Classical Poets Live, Interviews, Poetry, Video
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. This inaugural episode features an interview with Society of Classical Poets' co-founder and editor Evan Mantyk who talks about the founding of the SCP and its growth. He also discusses the FoFG Poetry...

An Interview With Leading Poet and Petrarch Translator A.M. Juster

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September 21, 2021
Essays, Interviews, Poetry, Translation
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A version of this interview originally appeared in The Epoch Times by Evan Mantyk A widely published translator of ancient Latin texts, a former high-ranking government bureaucrat, and an incredible poet who...

A Straight Shooter: Interview with C.B. Anderson

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July 31, 2019
Alexandroid, Beauty, Culture, Essays, Interviews, Poetry
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Roots in the Sky, Boots on the Ground: Metaphysical Poems C.B. Anderson, Kelsay Books, 107 pages paperback, ISBN-10: 1949229688 2019, $17.00 by Carol Smallwood Smallwood: Joseph S. Salemi commented on...

Rediscovering the Sonnet: An Interview with Poet Theresa Rodriguez by Carol Smallwood

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July 10, 2019
Essays, Interviews, Poetry, Poetry Forms
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  This interview was conducted by Carol Smallwood with poet Theresa Rodriguez following the release of the first edition of Sonnets by Rodriguez; the second edition is published by Shanti Arts, 2020;...

Interview with Samuel Gilliland: ‘The Finest Lyric Poet in Scotland’

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September 17, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Essays, Interviews, Poetry
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By Joseph Charles MacKenzie, for the Society of Classical Poets Born in 1939 Samuel Gilliland attended the ancient Dreghorn School in an old mining village on the right bank of the river Irvine, said...

‘A Spirit of Creativity’: Interview with Sally Cook

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May 8, 2017
Essays, Interviews, Poetry
4 Comments
By Evan Mantyk A veritable Renaissance woman, Sally Cook is both an accomplished poet who's regularly published in National Review and an accomplished artist whose paintings are on display at the...

‘Rhetorical Power’: An Interview with Joseph S. Salemi

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April 8, 2017
Deconstructing Communism, Essays, Interviews, Poetry
8 Comments
By Evan Mantyk In the sea of free verse, drifting downward into the bottomless whirlpool of aesthetic relativism, it is hard to not get lost; but poet, editor, and professor Joseph S. Salemi seems to have...

Interview with Unofficial Trump Inaugural Poet Joseph Charles MacKenzie

The Society
March 5, 2017
Deconstructing Communism, Essays, Interviews, Poetry
13 Comments
By Evan Mantyk One week in mid-January this year, in the relatively obscure world of poetry, Joseph Charles MacKenzie’s “Pibroch for the Domnhall” exploded like an atomic bomb, shattering...

‘A Healthy Bath of Exquisite Beauty’: An Interview with Michael Curtis

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October 13, 2016
Essays, Interviews, Poetry
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By Evan Mantyk Michael Curtis A classical architect, sculptor, painter, and poet, Michael Curtis is, in no uncertain terms, a Renaissance man. He has taught and lectured at universities, colleges, and...

‘Communicating Universal Truths’: An Interview with Betsy Hughes

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June 16, 2016
Essays, Interviews, Poetry
5 Comments
By Sharon Kilarski | Originally Published in The Epoch Times A sonnet by Betsy Hughes offers unmistakable relief; you can actually understand what you are reading. Words in glistening, clear images form...

Withstanding the Ravages of Time: An Interview with William Ruleman

The Society
March 18, 2016
Education, Essays, Interviews
3 Comments
By Kristina Pentchoukova Right from the first email from William Ruleman, I knew that I was interacting with a classicist who upheld traditional English in all manner of communication and behavior. Every...
  1. Russel Winick on ‘The Water Closet’ and Other Bathroom Poetry by Cheryl CoreyMay 16, 2025

    So Cheryl - this one is in your honor, for introducing the topic: HOW TO NOT RUIN YOUR DAY For…

  2. C.B. Anderson on ‘Pressed for Time’: A Poem by C.B. AndersonMay 16, 2025

    Exactly, James. We theosophers call it the mystery of existence.

  3. C.B. Anderson on ‘Pressed for Time’: A Poem by C.B. AndersonMay 16, 2025

    Well, Alan, you must have heard already that old trope: Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to…

  4. Cheryl A Corey on ‘Going Home to Campania’: A Poem by Patricia Rogers CrozierMay 16, 2025

    Very effective how you begin and end the poem with contrasting images of both road and pines, past and present.…

  5. Cheryl A Corey on ‘The Water Closet’ and Other Bathroom Poetry by Cheryl CoreyMay 16, 2025

    Thanks, Russel. I learned of Sir John Harrington in a book I'm reading, and that became the impetus for the…

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