I wrote this maybe 20 years ago and it was published in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature in April, 1993. Zen and the Art of Rainfall 1. Out last night, […]
World Poetry Day: Thomas Nashe: "Spring, the Sweet Spring"
SPRING, the sweet Spring, is the year’s pleasant king ; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing, Cuckoo, jug, jug, […]
"The Right Thing," by Theodore Roethke
More Roethke for WPD: The Right Thing Let others probe the mystery if they can. Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will- The right thing happens to the happy man. The bird flies […]
S&R celebrates World Poetry Day: what's your favorite?
Today is World Poetry Day. We here at S&R appreciate great poetry (we even launched our own literary journal) and we invite you to share with our readers your favorite poem or […]
New for poets and fiction authors: online literary magazines and creative writer resources
Scholars & Rogues recently launched the S&R LitJournal in order to promote creative writing in the form of new poetry, fiction and nonfiction. We’ve received and published several works from talented authors […]
Of Mice and Men…and more mice
by Terry Hargrove It’s the beginning of March, and if I was teaching somewhere, which I am not, I would be teaching poetry right about now. There was always a brief window […]
The painted kipper (pt. 3): public service vs. the brute force of money
by Michael Tracey Part 3 in a series. On 20 July 1925, Reith’s 36th birthday, the British Post-Master General, Mitchell-Thomson, informed the House of Commons that there would be a committee of […]
Happy Valentine's Day: "William and Maud"
I am haunted by numberless islands… – WB Yeats Walking by the shore at dusk, air leaden with a faith in words. William looks up, says Maud, the sky is full of […]
Old Ethan, Halfway Home
– Imbolc 2011, 2:17am MST Old Ethan like a walking stick, daylong shadow: sets him after a halfway pole fifty mile through a dankling woods. October throwed his scarecoat down. November framed […]
We're looking for poems that we didn't know we were looking for: Scholars & Rogues launches poetry journal
S&R readers have probably noticed that we like poetry around here. Something we have been talking about for quite a while, in fact, is why we didn’t take the next step and […]
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