Anna Stone, this year’s poet columnist, is a fifteen-year-old poet going into her fourth year at TPS when she starts tenth grade this fall. As is fitting for a poet columnist, Anna loves to write poetry and short stories. She also hopes to write a novel someday—though if she ever […]
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Edna St. Vincent Millay: Queen of Sonnets
Meet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950). She was a brilliant writer whose work has much to offer; her use of traditional and non-traditional forms made her a popular poet in the early 1900s among popular literary circles alike. She is not the sort of person one would like to be […]
Letters to a Young Romantic
Disclaimer: This post is intended to be humorous because of copying and grammar errors, not to make fun of the great works of author Rainer Maria Rilke. If you seriously want to learn about Letters to a Young Poet, go to this link to read the pre-translated article. Hello Readers […]
Lewis and Tolkien the Poets
Practically every young Christian reader has devoured (or been forced to read) C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy novels, if not also C. S. Lewis’ books of nonfiction and biography. However, both of their poetry is often overlooked despite making up a good portion of their work. […]
The Quiet Genius of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson, as scholars agree, was something of a free spirit– not just because of her unusual use of punctuation and spelling. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830. Having been educated at Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, she developed an interest in the sciences and botany […]