Category Archives: Poetry

The Best Lack All Conviction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Coming_(poem) https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/04/07/no-slouch/ https://www.npr.org/2020/11/28/939561949/opinion-reading-william-butler-yeats-100-years-later Happy 100th anniversary to the poem that every writer needs to know 00:00 Nick Fuentes goes off on Ann Coulter 14:00 CNBC shouting match over lockdowns 15:00 Should health be your #1 priority? 24:00 PUBLISHER YOUTUBE FULLY … Continue reading

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Yisroel Pensack: Berkeley Mohel Battling Oral Cancer Wrote Rosh Hashanah Poem

This poem by the seriously ill mohel and Torah teacher Rabbi Chanan Feld was read to his Beit Midrash Ohr HaChaim congregation in Berkeley by his wife Jody on Rosh Hashanah:  Rosh HaShanah words from Rabbi Chanan Feld [HaRav Chanan … Continue reading

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Loss Of Parent At Early Age Key For Developing The Compulsion To Write

I’m enjoying Catherine M. Andronik’s book for teens, Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets (The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous). She writes: "Like so many of his fellow poets, the key event in the early life of John Keats … Continue reading

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Conversations With Poets

At a party in Hollywood Wednesday night, I had the opportunity to converse with two published poets. Tahlia: "I’m 21. I’m not looking for love right now." "I’m taking Film Studies. I want to be a writer. I’ve always wanted … Continue reading

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Poetry For Teens

Nick Tolkien emails: "Heya Luke, Im starting a poetry movement for teenagers as I am one myself in California (i live in London right now its shit). I think teenagers really seem to be out of options in the age … Continue reading

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