Evidently Daniel Day-Lewis, who was only fifteen when Cecil Day-Lewis died, claimed to have seen the ghost...
Ben Sears
Ben Sears is a writer and restaurant guy in Birmingham, Alabama. He lives quite happily across from a creek with his wife, two sons, and an obligatory dog. You can follow him on Twitter and read his blog, Might Stain Your Shirt.
In a poem in which William Wordsworth asks Milton to right the ship of England he imperfectly...
I’ll soon be among the rod and creel magi interjecting into other people’s conversations, with my far-off...
Rupert Brooke is considered one of the War Poets but he’s remarkably different in tone from what...
There are no set rules to organize a voting process, so there are no set rules that...
Léonie Adams wrote a wonderfully structured poem about emerging into a new phase of life; a poem...
elow is Walter de la Mare’s most anthologized, which I take to mean most popular but what...
Should the Utah Utes football team lose she would “detonate the nuclear reactor that is located in...
I went with Sir Walter Ralegh because that’s the way he spelled it most commonly during the...
I’ve barely scratched the surface of Philip Larkin's public work but what I have read I have...
In my opinion instead of writing a poem Thomas Grey attempting to write poetically. It doesn’t work.
Today’s poet is Paul Lawrence Dunbar, a man called “poet laureate of the Negro race,” by Booker...
I’ve been thinking about the nature of friendship lately. I’m sure of one thing: roundabout friends are...
Happy POETS Day ladies and gentlemen, lads and lasses. The hour is near to Piss Off Early,...
The kids may act along with their better angels, but inexperience leads the astray. Thankfully I lived...
I can’t say that I hate searching for the right word or playing around with the sound...
It is Friday. You have slithered out of your commitments. Enjoy the nachos at the bar. Today’s...
I pronounced Willamette as “will-a-met” rather than as “will-ah-met”. She told me “Nope.” “It’s Willamette, Dammit.” Emphasizing...
It’s a silly bit of nothing, I’m not blown away, but my name is not emblazoned in...
You’d think someone immersed in the horrors of the 20th century would hold a lesser opinion of...
