Football, Presidents & Prizes
“Lineman uses poetry to reflect on football,” by Aaron Gray from Capitol Online, tackles how a “5-foot-11, 272-pounder” uses poetry as a way to chronicle his football games playing for Navy as…
"Lineman uses poetry to reflect on football," by Aaron Gray from Capitol Online, tackles how a "5-foot-11, 272-pounder" uses poetry as a way to chronicle his football games playing for Navy as an offensive lineman. While Gray is shy about sharing his poetry, it does show one of the many great uses of poetry--that is, recording events and preserving memories. Recording the nitty gritty details of everyday life can often lead to more interesting poetry than just playing with words in a vacuum.
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"Poetry and the Presidency," by Andrew Sullivan from The Atlantic Online, offers some interesting little facts about U.S. Presidents and their relationship to poetry.
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"Don Domanski wins Governor General's award for poetry," by Nancy King from The Cape Breton Post, reports that Domanski's collection, All Our Wonder Unavenged, won the $25,000 prize.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
