Category: Poetry
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Pity the Poor Newspaper Poets!
A 1922 New York Times Magazine article analyzed the contemporary state of newspaper poetry, which was a widespread feature in journalism publications back then. Today, it’s almost completely disappeared. Even the few journalism publications which run poetry in their print editions today, like the New Yorker and the Atlantic, are magazines. For newspapers, though, it’s basically…
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Where Were You?
Every stanza in Schoonmaker’s 1918 poem Where Were You? ends with a question, challenging the poem’s readers to ask themselves whether they were truly and fully doing their part to help America’s effort as World War I raged. The poet, Edwin Davies Schoonmaker, would live until 1940 and write many plays and books including The Americans, The World Storm…
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Where Were You? (poem)
Every stanza in Schoonmaker’s 1918 poem Where Were You? ends with a question, challenging the poem’s readers to ask themselves whether they were truly and fully doing their part to help America’s effort as World War I raged. The poet, Edwin Davies Schoonmaker, would live until 1940 and write many plays and books including The Americans, The World Storm…
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