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Conrad Aiken The Vampire (1916) A Poem For Halloween

October 31, 2014

Conrad Aiken is an American poet, playwright, novelist and essayist. He was born in 1889 in Savannah, Georgia. His parents William and Anna were from a wealthy and prominent New England family. His father was r... Read More...

Who Wants To See Patrick Stewart Read John Cooper Clarke’s Chickentown?

C S Hughes

October 17, 2014

Poet's Stage

They say the Yorkshire accent is the closest thing to the way English sounded in Elizabethan times, except for Bostonians, who make the same claim. Also, Klingons, but they are mostly fictional despite appearin... Read More...

Jaye Tomas Two Poems

C S Hughes

October 15, 2014

Poet's Stage

Maybe It Was The Wine Maybe it was the wine the way it went to my face and bloomed there like a dragon's kiss maybe it was the way your eyes crinkled as you looked at me like I was important to you. Maybe... Read More...

George Boleyn: Forgotten Poet

Clare Cherry

October 14, 2014

Poet's Stage

It is known that George Boleyn was a court poet. His earliest biographer, Edmond Bapst, considered George and Henry Howard to be the two gentlemen poets of Henry VIII's court who were the harbingers of the Engl... Read More...

Khaled Juma Oh Rascal Children Of Gaza

C S Hughes

October 9, 2014

Poet's Stage

Oh Rascal Children Of Gaza Oh rascal children of Gaza, You who constantly disturbed me with your screams under my window, You who filled every morning with rush and chaos, You who broke my vase and stole th... Read More...

Christopher Lee Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven

C S Hughes

October 9, 2014

Poet's Stage

James Earl Jones's version is haunting and resonant, Vincent Price's adds a certain cackle, a hint of the demented to Edgar Allan Poe's narrative of lost love, obsession, delusion, coincidence and regret, first... Read More...

Light, Dark And Angels: The Gothic Poetry Of James Butler

C S Hughes

October 9, 2014

Poet's Stage

Sorrow's Quest Entombed within a church of flesh, My shadow seeks the night. A ghost among the living dead, An angel seeking light. For where is thine heaven now? Burned to ash, and dust? Fallen to the s... Read More...

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