Tuesday, October 11, 2011

A Riddle - New Video from Poetica Victorian

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Time for A Little Poll

Which is your favorite poem from the second issue? 

The Composition of Shadows
The Playing Fields
For the People I Have Lived
B Allergy
Would I Were I A Wooded Man
Shakespearean Sky Sonnet
The Caverns of Thy Mind
Reply to Keats
I Have Heard Mermaids
Mother
or
The Leaf's Secret


Go to our home page or visit the side bar here on the blog to answer the poll. We want to hear from you. Once you answer this poll you can also answer the poll asking your opinion on the issue as a whole. Thank you for your feedback!


Not a subscriber? You can get the second issue for FREE today by going to http://poeticavictorian-subscribe.blogspot.com and read these beautiful poems above.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Friday, June 10, 2011

Some Poetry and History to Lighten Up Your Weekend

As we promised, every month we will be posting a poem on the blog for your to read. This month is our history month, and in honor of some famous historical events we have a hisotircal poem. Enjoy this poem by Brandon Berman, published poet in our first issue. Here is a satire on King Louis XVI.


For the People I Have Lived
                                                        By Brandon Berman 


The blade looms above his head
from the sunset's rays stained in red
The sound of birds fluttering about in the sky
not a cloud up in the heavens
what a beautiful day for King Louis to die!

The republic is his master
the French people want him dead
their cries for him to die faster
swim like fishes in his head

Oh, how the people he protected
now call for his demise
what had he ever done to be selected
to die in wake of the republic's rise

He had given them his army
he had given them his bread
he had fed them and watered them
like a flower in a garden bed

Yet all that care and nurture was for naught
for on the guillotine he was to end
and there his body was to rot
until the second coming heaven send

And as they march him up the creaking steps
to the guillotine’s waiting room
they are his last footsteps
and they carry him to his doom

They place his head against the rough wooden stoackade
His neck exposed to the glittering blade
for a king to die in this dark way is not right
after serving his people with all of his might
Then a single thought engrosses him as the blade nears his neck:

"Populus enim vixi: for the people I have lived"

Monday, June 6, 2011

New Sybmol #1

Above you will find the possibly new symbol of Poetica Victorian. We have become fed up with our old symbol and are looking for something new. So over the next few weeks we will be posting our choices of new symbols on the blog. Then, after all the symbol choices have been posted, we will have a poll on the website and here on the blog for you to decide the new symbol.

This is the first symbol out of the new choices. It features our former crest (the simple letters PV standing for our name) surrounded by two olive branches topped with a victorian era crown. Below this symbol is the name of our magazine written in a cursive font.

Tell Everyone About Us for a Chance to Win

For this month only, if you tell your friends about our magazine you will be entered for a chance to win a stack of poetry books and a $20 gift card (Visa prepaid credit card). Post about us on Facebook and let us know about it, tweet about us, or give us the e-mails of friends you would like to let us contact and you will be entered for a chance to win.

This offer lasts until July 20, 2011 so hurry up and tell everyone you know about us. For everyone you tell about us (only applies to the e-mail scenario) you will be entered one time. The more people you tell about us, the more you are entered, and the higher the chances of you winning.

Head to this link and enter the e-mails of everyone you want to tell about us and we will contact them with more information, and you will be entered for a chance to win:  Tell Everyone About Us... 

Friday, May 13, 2011

Our Readers Love the New Website!

In other poll related news (referring to the previous post), Poetica Victorian hosted a poll on the home page about our new website. The poll asked readers to give their opinion on our new website here at blogger.com. Readers were given the options:

-Amazing
-Okay
-Not bad, not good either
-Bad
-Horrible

The results were nearly all the same, with one exception having chosen "Not bad, not good either", and they all chose "Amazing". Just goes to show that our readers love our new website.  

Who's Poetica Victorian's Readers' favorite Victorian-Classical Poet?

As you know, or at least you should if you are active with Poetica Victorian, we have been hosting polls on both our blog and home page. The polls have ranged from opinions on our website to readers' favorite genre of writing.

One of five polls we hosted on our website was the "Who's your favorite Victorian Poet?" poll. The choices were between the following Victorian-Classical Poets:

-Alfred Lord Tennyson
-Emily Dickinson
-Rudyard Kipling
-Charlotte Bronte

and

-Robert Browning

17 votes on the poll came in so far (from both our home page and blog poll featuring the same question), and out of those votes 

0 went to Charlotte Bronte
1 went to Rudyard Kipling
2 went to Robert Browning
3 went to Alfred Lord Tennyson
 and 11 went to Emily Dickinson

It is obvious to us from these results that our readers love Emily Dickinson (maybe just as much as we do. If you haven't noticed she is our representative Victorian poet with her poem Chartless). So we have decided based on these results to do something special based on Emily Dickinson. But we're not telling yet! You'll have to come back soon to find out about our Emily Dickinson themed suprise, here on the blog.

For anyone who didn't know...

For anyone from our online community here who didn't know, Poetica Victorian is on Facebook and Twitter.

You can follow us on Twitter and/or like us on Facebook to get updates from Poetica Victorian. Head over to the contact us tab now to get the link to our Facebook and Twitter pages. http://poeticavictorian-contact.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Winner of the Victorian Poetry Contest Anounced

The Victorian Poetry Contest, intended for young and rising poets, concluded last month with over thirty submissions from different youths around the country. The competition was tough, but one poet's poem stood out for our editors.

The winning poem was "The Leaf's Secret" by Johnny Riley. Riley submitted his poem to us, and under the recommendation from one of our formerly published poets, we put his poem into the Victorian Poetry Contest. The result was a unanimous vote on the poem by our staff to be the one we accept.

The poem will be published here on our blog in a few weeks, and will also appear in our next issue of Poetica Victorian. Come back here soon and check out the beautiful poem by Johnny Riley.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

The NEW "Victorian Poets: A New Legacy" Contest

Poetica Victorian is proud to announce that it will be hosting a new contest designated for all the upcoming issues of the journal. This contest is actually a series of contests based off of the Victorian poets. The contest series is titled: Victorian Poets: A New Legacy. Each issue will feature one poem (by the winner of the contest), which mimics the poem of a selected Victorian poet (Tennyson, etc...). Basically, the contestant must choose one poem from the chosen Victorian poet, use the title of that poem, and write an entirely new one in the same general style.

For example:

Chartless 

I went out to find her
my beloved, the beautiful Madame Letree
but love knows no charter
so no chart to her heart was drawn for me

Although I searched and searched
I never found my love
I may never find her on this earth
yet certain am I I'll see her in heaven above

Since this poem has eight lines, and follows the pattern of abab rhyme scheme in the first stanza, then an abcb pattern in the second stanza, the poet must write the poem in the same rhyme scheme, with the same style, and the same theme, based off of the title (chartless is a broad theme so the contestant can take this theme in many different ways). As in the poem above (pardon us for its not being too good, we did make it up on the spot) there is the same rhyme scheme and the theme is chartless (no charter to make a map to find love shows an idea of being chartless).


Head over to the contests section of the website to view this issue's chosen poet for the contest, submission guidelines, prizes, deadlines, and requirements for this contest.