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  The Poetry of Stephen Vincent Benét

  Stephen Vincent Benét

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  Benét was born on 22nd July in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His father was a serving Army colonel and his first decade dictated that family life and education was centered at the base his father was serving from.  
   
  From ten it became a little more stable when he was dispatched for a traumatic year to the Hitchcock Military Academy in San Rafael, California before graduating from the Summerville Academy in Augusta, Georgia and thence to Yale University, at age 17, where he quickly established himself in its deep literary traditions.  He edited as well as contributed a selection of light verse to the campus humor magazine, The Yale Record, and gave freely and generously of his time thereafter to keep Yale producing new literary talents.  
   
  Prodigiously his first book was published at 17 and for he obtained his M.A. in English when he submitted a poetry volume as his thesis. 
   
  Whilst travelling in France, in the early 20s, he met and quickly married a fellow writer and poet, Rosemary Carr.  She would also collaborate with him on several works.  In Paris he wrote the book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War ‘John Brown's Body’, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. 
   
  Benét was immensely gifted. A mere glance at his literary CV dazzles with literary gems.  Some of his poems seem to foretell both the rise of machines and of Fascism.  He won the O’Henry Award on three occasions, for his short stories as well as an incredible four Pulitzers; two for poetry and two for short stories.  Add in his several novels, speech-writing, radio scripts and various other pursuits and you have some measure of the man.  
   
  In 1930, Benét was hit with debilitating attacks of arthritis of the spine which made the rest of his life one of much pain and discomfort. 
   
  Stephen Vincent Benét died in his wife’s arms on 13th March 1943 of a heart attack in New York City. He was 44.  
   
  He was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for Western Star, an ambitious and projected five, six or nine book narrative poem (there are various accounts of its projected length) on the settling of the United States, for which he only finished the first book. 
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  1 - The Poetry of Stephen Vincent Benét - An Introduction 
  2 - A Minor Poet by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  3 - Difference by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  4 - Music by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  5 - The Quality of Courage by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  6 - Love in Twilight by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  7 - The Lover in Hell by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  8 - Breaking Point by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  9 - Nightmare Number 3 by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  10 - The Innovator by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  11 - For City Lovers by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  12 - The City Revisited by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  13 - Rain After A Vaudeville Show by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  14 - Minor Litany by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  15 - Days Pass, Men Pass by by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  16 - For All Blasphemers by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  17 - Poor Devil! by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  18 - Judgement by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  19 - Lonely Burial by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  20 - Litany for Dictatorships by Stephen Vinvcent Benét 
  21 - The Hemp by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  22 - Colors by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  23 - Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  24 - Portrait of a Baby by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  25 - Portrait of a Boy by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  26 - Campus Sonnets by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  27 - Elegy For An Enemy by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  28 - Architects by Stephen Vincent Benét

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  Plot

  Claudia Rankine

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  This poetry collection by the acclaimed author of Citizen presents an “inexhaustibly complex, varied, and . . . grimly inventive” meditation on maternity (Verse).In Claudia Rankine’s Plot, an expectant mother, Liv, and her husband, Erland, find themselves propelled into one of our most basic plots: boy loves girl, girl gets pregnant. Liv’s respect for life, however, makes her reluctant to bring a new life into the world.The couple’s electrifying journey is charted through dreams, conversations, and reflections. A text like no other, it crosses genres, existing at times in poetry, at times in dialogue and prose, in order to arrive at new life and baby Ersatz. This stunning, avant-garde performance enacts what it means to be human, and to invest in humanity. “Plot moves as in a picaresque novel, in which the body schemes and frightens, accompanied by Claudia Rankine’s instinct for poetic surprise.” —Barbara Guest, poet and author of Herself Defined

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  Kojak - The Prodigal Son

  Arthur Korb

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  A dramatic performance by the Power Performance Players of one of Kojak's cases from the fictional files of the New York Police Department.

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  The Funeral Director (NHB Modern...

  Iman Qureshi

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  Winner of the Papatango New Writing Prize - 2018
  Life as the director of a Muslim funeral parlour isn't always easy, but Ayesha has things pretty sorted. She and Zeyd share everything: a marriage, a business, a future.
  Until Tom walks in to organise his boyfriend's funeral. A snap moral decision, informed by the values of Ayesha's community and faith, has profound consequences.
  Forced to confront a secret she has hidden even from herself, Ayesha must decide who she is – no matter the cost.
  Iman Qureshi's play The Funeral Director is an incisive and heartfelt story of sexuality, gender and religion in twenty-first-century Britain. It won the 2018 Papatango New Writing Prize and premiered at Southwark Playhouse, London, in 2018.

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  Wine Songs Vinegar Verses -...

  Harambee Grey-Sun

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  Sometimes lovers enter a relationship with the best of intentions but wind up in a place far from love.   
  Sometimes poets attempt love poems, simple and pure, but . . .  
  Over breakfast, a husband trying to deny creeping out on his wife the previous night can’t help but give hints about the creepy things he really did. On a beach, a man minding his own business is accosted by a pretty woman before a strong tide embarrasses them both. A husband and wife debate over what to name a child conceived illicitly. A tone-deaf proposal for marriage ends in murder. A traditionally arranged marriage spins into a deranged and surreal nightmare.  
  These aren’t anti-love poems. These are poems born and burned out of love. 
    
  It’s not recommended that a reader attempt the entire book in one sitting. Many of the poems are dense, complex, and may go straight to the head. Best to peruse in small doses, with a preferred drink in hand.

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  Drowning Sorrows

  Douglas Post

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  A woman stumbles into a remote bar on the Carribean island of St. John - and faints. It isn’t the tropical drinks that befell Emily Miles, but the sight of the bartender, Duncan Crawford. In the restless Duncan, Emily is sure she recognizes the young man she has been searching for since he left her at the alter, twenty years ago.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Keli Garrett, Harry Hamlin, Martha Lavey, Andrew Leman and Paul Winfield.

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