Salon limerick contest
This week, Salon's reader-poets get kind of meta
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Is poetry dead? Nonsense, says John Deming
The Washington Post's Alexandra Petri claims that poetry is "obsolete." She couldn't be more wrong
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“One sun rose on us today”
Read the full text of Richard Blanco's inaugural poem and watch his performance VIDEO
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Salon limerick contest
Salon readers write the news in doggerel
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Readers rhyme the news
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Richard Blanco will be first openly gay, Latino poet to read at Obama’s inauguration
He will also be the youngest poet to participate in the ceremony VIDEO
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Stifled poet in India
Studying engineering is killing me!
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High schooler suspended for poem on understanding Adam Lanza
17-year-old taken out of school when teacher saw her notebook with poem on Newtown VIDEO
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Salon limerick contest
Salon readers rhyme the news
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With the election over, Salon's poetical readers find new targets
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New education standards elbow out literature
Is nonfiction more rigorous than literature? An important education initiative thinks so
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Can books endure in a 140-character world?
Millennial writers, like Beau Sia, prove that social media and serious literature can coexist
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Election post-mortems in five line verse
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“Bilbo’s Last Song”
J.R.R. Tolkien's poem, first published in 1966, has been reissued this fall
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Triumphant and silly poems about the election
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The last batch of silly verse before election day
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Readers write funny poems about the presidential election
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Five-line rhymes about the week in politics
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America’s forgotten poet
James Franco's playing him in a movie now, but Hart Crane's genius has gone largely unrecognized since his death
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Poets take on the 47 percent
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