- Sep 27, 2023
- 1 min
A Poetry Reading in Gerry Park
This past Friday, September 22nd, The Bryant Library hosted an open mic poetry reading in the Gerry Park gazebo. Organized by librarians...
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- Apr 20, 2023
- 5 min
Poetic Analysis: Christopher Morley's “Two O' Clock”
“We heard a critic remark that no great sonnets are being written nowadays.” This editorial statement opens Christopher Morley’s “The...
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- Feb 27, 2023
- 3 min
Translation as Poetry: Langston Hughs & Gabriela MIstral
As February morphs quickly into March, and Women’s History Month follows in the wake of Black History Month, it seems appropriate to note...
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- Jan 3, 2022
- 7 min
Edgar Allan Poe Reviews the Poetry of William Cullen Bryant
Excerpted from Edgar Allan Poe’s April 1846 lengthy analysis of the publication of The Complete Poetical Works of W. C. Bryant, the...
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- Jan 3, 2022
- 2 min
The Snow Shower: A Poem by William Cullen Bryant
November 3, 2019 marks the 225th birthday of William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), our Library’s namesake. In 1875, Bryant built a “Reading...
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