Portal:Poetry/Did you know archive/Week 35 2006

• ... that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's wife died after her dress ignited from an ember in the fireplace? Longfellow wrote a poem about this, The Cross of Snow, which is this week's selected poem.

• .... that Samuel Johnson is probably the man who coined the term Metaphysical poets?

• ... that the Black Mountain poets, sometimes called the Projectivist poets, were a group of mid 20th century American avant-garde or postmodern poets centered around Black Mountain College?