A Villanelle and Video by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society November 5, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings, Video originally published on MacKenzie Lyric Poetry Oh, run with the sun and the wind in your hair! Before the day-star sets in the west: Love flowers best in the wide, open air. Behold! The noon-tide waxes...
How NOT to Hate Shakespeare: TED Talk by Rob Crisell The Society October 13, 2019 Classical Literature, Culture, For Educators, Poetry, Video 1 Comment ...
A Poem on Violinist Fiona Zheng and Other Poetry, by Evan Mantyk (Video) The Society October 1, 2019 Beauty, Classical Literature, Culture, Human Rights in China, Music, Poetry, Video 12 Comments Sonnet VI. Fiona Zheng Violinist Fiona Zheng and her father spent part of their lives fleeing communist authorities in China after her mother and grandmother were killed for refusing to renounce their...
Joseph Charles MacKenzie’s Sonnet 5 Inspires the World of Pop (Video) The Society September 9, 2019 Beauty, Culture, News of Note, Poetry, Readings, Video Originally published here. ALBUQUERQUE, NM — July 27, 2019 — Sonnet 5, a marriage poem from MacKenzie’s Sonnets for Christ the King, has inspired award-winning producer, composer, and vocalist D.G. Hall...
Bryant Park Poetry Reading: Two Poems by Theresa Rodriguez (Video) The Society September 4, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, From the Society, Poetry, Readings, Video 9 Comments ...
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, Video ...
On the 200th Anniversary of John Keats’ Odes (A Video Essay by Daniel Leach) The Society May 2, 2019 Poetry, Readings, Video 5 Comments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9LEnZ9T4F0&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats When I have fears that I may cease to be __Before my pen has...
Two Videos on the Reading of Poetry Out Loud The Society March 11, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry, Readings, Video 5 Comments The Bad The first video of Hannah Silva instructs us on the abyss that poetry reading has found itself in today. The irrationality and baseness of slam poetry has given way to experimental poetry that doesn't...
‘Listening to the Lark’ by Daniel Magdalen (with Video) The Society January 16, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Video 22 Comments On Ralph Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending, a romance for violin and orchestra inspired by George Meredith’s poem of the same title (see both below). Past years of smoke and pain, a tune in ether...
‘SonnetVision 27’ (Video) by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society June 21, 2018 Beauty, News of Note, Poetry, Readings, Video 9 Comments Note: Joseph Charles MacKenzie would like to offer a 25% discount on the first edition hardcover of Sonnets for Christ the King to his fellow poets and readers of the Society of Classical Poets, in gratitude...
Video: A Reading of Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare The Society June 14, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry, Readings, Video A short film by Gleb Zavlanov. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxnDmkKqaF4&feature=youtu.be Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds...
‘Canto 1’ by James Sale (with Video) The Society April 10, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, Readings, Video 70 Comments Canto 1 is the provisional name for a sequence of 33 Cantos that James Sale is attempting to write in the style - and using the terza rima - of Dante. His aim is to create a contemporary epic of heaven and...
‘Swallows’ by Leo Yankevich (with Video) The Society February 13, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings, Video 8 Comments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjc_6R0ang8&feature=youtu.be It was once thought that swallows wintered on the moon, or morphed into field mice beneath the autumn swoon of clouds, or...
‘A December Wish’ by Leo Yankevich (with Audio) The Society December 23, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings, Video 10 Comments https://youtu.be/dVnGlUaitiY You hear the sound of carols from afar. Bright bulbs and tinsel, cinnamon and cloves. Beyond a hill of snow you see a star. Here you can look at stacks...
Why Is Modern Art So Bad? (Video by Robert Florczak) The Society April 29, 2016 Art, Essays, News of Note, Video 11 Comments See full Epoch Times article on Robert...
