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P&PC is thrilled to introduce our new South Dakota correspondent Sarah Ehlers (pictured here), an Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Dakota who teaches and writes about modern poetry and poetics. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Modern Language Quarterly , Paideuma , and Contemporary Literature , and she is completing a book titled Left of Poetry: Depression America and the Formation of Modern Poetics . In the following posting about the poetics of radical children's verse, Ehlers hints at what Left of Poetry has in store and how the development of modern poetics—at least in some spheres of American life—had more to do with nineteenth century verse cultures than folks generally assume. If you want to know how communist poetry, Little Miss Muffet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mother Goose, and even the poetry of Robert Southey could come together to make poetry "modern," dear reader, then read on. Now relatively unknown, Martha M...

For this week's posting, P&PC is sitting in with the Columbia University Press blog as part of its special National Poetry Month programming. There, you can not only enter to win a six pack of poetry, but you can also read a mini-memoir about how and why one person in the P&PC Office was moved this past year to get part of Robert Creeley's poem "I Know a Man" tattooed on his arms . Even better than all of that, however, is how, for a limited time, you can take advantage of CUP's Spring Sale to score a 50% discount on Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America . If you're a customer in the U.S. or Canada, just enter the coupon code SALE in your shopping cart, click "apply," and your half-off savings will be calculated. Why not take a moment out of your National Poetry Month festivities and head on over today?