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Pixies Frontman Black Francis Embedded This Poetic Form into His Songs: Did You Notice?
A form so simple we ask grade schoolers to use has a long history. But does its use qualify as an "Easter egg"?
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Caitlin Cowan
The Lost Daughter Elevates the Horror of Two Famous 20th Century Poems
Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut is chock full of poetry, seduction, threat, and mystery. And did I mention poetry?
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Caitlin Cowan
Superheros Spouting Poetry: You Love to See It
Marvel's Secret Invasion was just OK, but the writers' taste in poetry? Impressive.
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Caitlin Cowan
August 2023
Heartstopper Highlights the Internet's Favorite Book of Poetry
An asexual, aromantic TV character reads a book about obsession and gay identity. Among the many who noticed was the book's author, well-known to fandom…
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Caitlin Cowan
Decades Before Greta Gerwig's Barbie, This Poet Made Subversive, Feminist Art About the Iconic Doll, Too
Denise Duhamel's Kinky (1997) is receiving new—and deserved—attention as Barbie movie mania continues..
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Caitlin Cowan
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Sinéad O’Connor's Love of W. B. Yeats Shaped Her Life and This Fan-Favorite Song
The late singer's debut single was as a literary as it was lovesick.
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Caitlin Cowan
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The Late Sinéad O'Connor Made an Old Poem into Something New & Throbbing
"I Am Stretched on Your Grave" is as subversive and deeply Irish in character as the singer was herself.
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Caitlin Cowan
July 2023
Tina Fey Is on the Picket Line, So Let's Look Back at One of 30 Rock's Many Poetry Jokes
Solidarity!
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Caitlin Cowan
All That Glitters: We've Ruined Drake
Even for Drake superfans, Titles Ruin Everything—the rapper's co-written book of poetry—reads like a vapid testament to the price of a fame we're…
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Caitlin Cowan
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I Leave the Country for a Month and Drake Writes a Book of Poetry. Damn!
It's good to be back with a sneak preview of next week's post on the poetry of one Aubrey Drake Graham as well as a round-up of poetry and pop culture…
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Caitlin Cowan
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Unlocked from the Archive: What William Blake Has to Say to Zombie Television
Young people reciting poetry in the apocalypse? Why not. What else is there?
June 2023
Unlocked from the Archive: Did American Horror Story Do Its Romantic Poetry Homework?
Shelley, er... Ozymandias was a man, you philistine. Or so the quote goes.
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Caitlin Cowan
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