We’ve got a couple of new articles up today. The first is a new poetry review, “The Whitman (Walt not Slim) of Popular Culture” by Richard C. Crepeau, who is also a regular blog contributor.

Poetry and pop culture often seem diametrically opposed in modern American culture. Crepeau’s review, however, reveals a potentially much more intimate relationship:

Poetry is not generally thought of as a vehicle for posing the eternal question, ?Ginger or Maryann?? or to contemplate the centrality of “Hawaii Five-O” within the cultural milieu of our postmodern existence.

For David McGimpsey, however, these are just the sort of subjects that are most suitable to poetry.

Read the full article here.