The Plebeian Poetry Review

Morituri Te Salutamus!

Before fighting to the death in a ring of mortal combat, Roman gladiators would face their emperor and shout, "Hail Caesar, We who are about to die salute you!" Writing poetry is not unlike being a gladiator, only poets are compelled to bleed in words rather than blood...

About Me

Name: The Editor
Location: Camdenton, MO, United States

In addition to attending his poetry, writing, and research, the Editor teaches English to at-risk high school students. He received his BA in English cum laude with minors in Art, Psychology, and Writing from Missouri University of Science and Technology, and his M.Ed. in English Curriculum & Instruction from the University of Missouri (MU). He is a Teacher Consultant with the National Writing Project, having participated in the Missouri Writing Project in 2005 and the Advanced Missouri Writing Project in 2007, both at MU. Inducted into Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society, at Missouri S&T, he reactivated the MU Chapter, holding the position of President from 2005-2006 while pursuing his graduate degree at the University. He was Editor-in-Chief of The Missouri Miner, Missouri S&T's campus newspaper, from 2000-2002, and Editor-in-Chief of Southwinds Magazine, "Missouri S&T's Only Literary Magazine," from 1997-2001. He has received numerous awards for his poetry.

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"To-day we make the poet's words our own
And utter them in plaintive undertone;
Nor to the living only be they said,
But to the other living called the dead,
Whose dear, paternal images appear
Not wrapped in gloom, but robed in sunshine here;
Whose simple lives, complete and without flaw,
Were part and parcel of great Nature's law;
Who said not to their Lord, as if afraid
"Here is thy talent in a napkin laid,"
But labored in their sphere, as men who live
In the delight that work alone can give."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow