Founder of Dead Poets Society visited the graves of Bards

Cundy Harbor, Maine - On the big screen, the director of Dead Poets Society in an all boys prep school was a stimulating teacher played by Robin Williams. In real life it is sometimes an amateur poet who is in his "Poemobile," survey and document the graves of the dead poets and attention to their works. Walter Skold, founder of the Dead Poets Society of America, has recently launched a three-month stay, during which he visited the graves of 150 poets in 23 states. Skold has boasted of a record land speed of 1.66 GPD Literary Set (Bass / day) during the 15,000-mile trip. During his readings is falling - and the occasional sleepovers Cemetery - reminiscent of the macabre, Skold out their intentions are honorable. "This is not really a morbid project, but a way to revive in honor of our forebearers literary and historical works about" her "Skold. Its published reports, which may include art tombstone will be moved online, they encouraged others to go and the graves of the dead poets publish their videos and photos online. Skold, 49, of Freeport, founded in Dead Poets Society of America a year ago, so his track position as a technology of public school teachers, to his passion for poetry and photography. For his trip, he bought a secondhand van with a rack for cameras and accessories, bookshelves and a desk, which, strictly speaking, a double bed. During his 90-day trip, Skold visited the graves of the giants of poetry by Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, has, together with lesser-known poets like Dudley Randall, Broadside Press published many of the greatest writers of African - Americans. He made a documentary entitled "Finding Frost: Digging Up Dead Poets America." Next year he wants to identify buried the dead poets in America in Europe. He was especially by the poets who had completely forgotten fascinated. He calls it double "dead" because they have a second death, when their works are "slow sustained into literary oblivion. Some of them include Madison Cawein, Eugene Field, Virginia Boyle and Elizabeth Hollister Frost, he said. Skold has also been found that the final resting place of many poets - dead or doubly dead - are not known. In Maine alone, he found 29 poets whose final resting place is a mystery to the public. "Many of these people have poets like interesting stories and life so interesting that I really think it's a shame they were to our literary imagination, or lost our literary history, "he said." I try works and lives of the people, and were forgotten for one reason or another to bring value. "The Library of Congress believes Skold efforts is the commitment of the first literary work," said Peter Armenti, a specialist in digital reference centers including jib us is poetry. Many places severe in. are well documented, but only to scholars and lovers of poetry, "said Armenti. Skold effort trying to information on poets' available to the general public, and thus generate some interest among American poets. " I think it's an exciting project, "Armenti said." I'm glad somebody does. "Skold project has the blessing of nine poet laureate of the state was, each of them recruited to readings in his Road Trip Poet Laureate participate. Skold joined South Carolina in Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston for a reading of a poem by Henry Timrod, whose work is believed to have inspired Bob Dylan. "strange and interesting is the best way," said Marjory Wentworth, South Carolina. "I hope in the long run, that there are people of poetry that might not otherwise be interested in receiving. Everything that the audience for poetry is elevated a good thing. "In Tennessee, said the poet laureate of Vaughn Margaret Skold she respects ambitious goal. It was also the documentation of the graves of poets and write their own poems for all." I know what it takes. I have for 10 years. He's got the passion. That's what has to do for this passion, "she said from her studio in Bell Buckle, Tennessee afternoon the last few years has Skold Cundy Harbor on the grave of Robert P. Tristram Coffin was that the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1936th The Poemobile, named after Edgar Allan Poe was parked on the street with the slogan: "I brake for old graveyards." wears a T-shirt Poe's Tavern in South Carolina, where Poe for a year in the army soon, Skold resolve to create a camera on a tripod and then using a rake from a neighbor and a copy of the poem Coffin "An old man Raking Leaves" Art on a bright autumn day basis. He likes to surprise with his gravestone art. For example, it has launched a capital H "red" on the tombstone of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who wrote "The Scarlet Letter." At Longfellow memorial, he lit a portrait of the second wife of the poet to his certain death, the poet, and tortured inspired "The Cross of Snow." Skold encourages others to his cause to celebrate the saints go to cemeteries, preferably during the day can be the graves of poets and their poems document. read visit a cemetery at night a risky business and requires a special permit. Skold learned this lesson the hard last Halloween, when he was almost in Malden, Massachusetts, where he was arrested and his son torches on the grave of the priest Michael Wigglesworth, Puritan author of "Day of Doom." I do not know that there is a small woman who watches over the cemetery and said she told the police that there were people, satanic rituals, "he said. ___ On the Net: Dead Poets Society of America http://www.deadpoes. org /