Poetry Explorer

Search Classic and Contemporary Poetry

Search Results

Back to search

Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!


Searching...
Subject: EDITORS
Matches Found: 32

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF ANTHOLOGISTS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An urchin at his father's knee
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Editors


A CERTAIN EDITOR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He was personally fatuous and horrid
Last Line: And contrive a handsome dividend from dirt!
Subject(s): Editors


AS YOU LIKE IT, by ALICE NOTLEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm so with it I can't believe it
Last Line: Boogie boogie boogie.
Subject(s): Editors; Poetry & Poets; Publishing; Publishers


BEAUTIFUL LADY EDITOR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was a beautiful woman, I used to see photographs of
Subject(s): Editors


EDITOR, by WENDY WILDER LARSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In his air-conditioned room
Subject(s): Editors


EDITOR, by GLENNA LUSCHEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I kept having to shoo off
Subject(s): Editors


EDITOR, by MARVIN MALONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Obvious
Last Line: They are perhaps %my only defense
Subject(s): Editors; Malone, Marvin (d. 1996)


EDITOR, by RICHARD O'CONNELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Phoebus the poet turned pimp
Last Line: But his connectiuons are good %and his muses are nine
Subject(s): Editors


EDITOR, by JAMES TATE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a foggy day anyway
Subject(s): Editors


EDITOR, by JAMES TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a foggy day anyway
Subject(s): Editors


FOR ANGUS MACLEOD (HEADMASTER, AND EDITOR OF GAELIC POEMS), by IAIN CRICHTON SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: To-day they laid him in the earth's cold colour
Last Line: The truest work is learning to be human %definitive texts the poorest can afford
Subject(s): Editors; Teaching And Teachers


FRIENDS, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even after j.B. Left and went to a better house
Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Editors; Educators; Professors


LITERARY PORTRAITS, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I write you this because, to your surprise
Last Line: This book. To look inside: %not into me, into you
Variant Title(s): Poetry Edito
Subject(s): Davison, Edward (1898-1970); Editors; Fitzgerald, Robert Stuart (1910-1985); Poetry And Poets


MAKIN' AN EDITOR OUTEN O' HIM, by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good mornin,' sir, mr. Printer; how is your body today?
Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will
Subject(s): Editors


NOTEBOOK VERSION, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flicking through my notebook %I come across 'black butterflies'
Last Line: This is the time they stand the test of
Subject(s): Books; Editors; Poetry And Poets


REGINALD SMITH, K.C.; IN MEMORIAM, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A house in london's heart. A first-floor room
Last Line: I stay. And not I, only ... Publisher and friend.
Subject(s): Editors; Friendship; Publishing; Publishers


RUNNING THE WEEKLY, by ROBERT JONES BURDETTE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the twilight in his sanctum sat the editor alone
Subject(s): Editors


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: EDITOR WHEDON, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To be able to see every side of every question
Last Line: And abortions are hidden.
Subject(s): Editors; Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


THE BEAUTIFUL LADY EDITOR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was a beautiful woman, I used to see photographs of
Subject(s): Editors


THE COUNTRY EDITOR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A thoughtful brow and face
Last Line: Gnaweth his pen and glareth rabidly.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Editors


THE DOUBLE STANDARD, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Important is the nation's health
Last Line: Says advertising mr. Hyde
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Editors; Newspapers; Publishing; Writing & Writers; Journalism; Journalists; Publishers


THE EDITOR'S CRIME, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With a gloomy air
Last Line: Of taking a nap in your sanctum chair!
Subject(s): Editors


THE EDITOR'S WOOING, by ROBERT HENRY NEWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We love, thee, ann maria smith
Last Line: A larger circulation.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kerr, Orpheus
Subject(s): Editors; Happiness; Love; Joy; Delight


THE SEAMY SIDE OF MOTLEY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lady, when we sat together
Last Line: Funny every day.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Books; Editors; Humor; Writing & Writers; Reading


THE SPORTING EDITOR, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The morning finds him with a thousand friends
Last Line: So they all squawk and hand the scribe the razz!
Subject(s): Editors; Sports


TO A GREAT EDITOR, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In every human life, however filled
Last Line: You shall remain when it has passed away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Alden, Henry Mills (1836-1919); Critics & Criticism; Editors; Praise


TO AN EDITOR (ON THE RETURN OF A MANUSCRIPT), by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: So my 'lines are too heavy'-you 'want something / light'
Last Line: Than reams of the stuff you are printing for verse.
Subject(s): Editors; Poetry & Poets; Printing & Printers; Publishing; Publishers


VICTORIAN JOURNALISM, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: An old song sung by an aged old pate
Last Line: And the queen's old editor.
Subject(s): Editors; Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


WHAT IS AN EDITOR?, by JOSEPH CHANEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A mind. A machine. A maniacal
Last Line: Your fears. All along you were writing %to no one. A machine. A machine
Subject(s): Editors


WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A strong and simple-souled ohio boy
Last Line: So triumphed this firm-fibred westerner.
Subject(s): Editors; Howells, William Dean (1837-1920); Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


WORKSHOP: WRITING THE PUBLISHABLE HIGH-END POEM, by MICHAEL ATKINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The title should be reflexive somehow
Last Line: You see, it isn't easy, it's art, try again
Subject(s): Editors; Language; Publishing; Writing And Writers


YE EDITOR'S PERPLEXITIES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: An editor is mister squibbs
Subject(s): Editors