Poets With Awesome Beards

Friday, May 18, 2012 PHOTOS: Poets Ranked By Beard Weight Hello, everyone! Madeleine here. National Poetry Month and Poem In Your Pocket Day may have come and gone, but that doesn't mean it's time to forget about the craft. Poetry is everywhere -- your children's homework, your favorite songs, and apparently in the hearts and minds of heavily bearded old men. Skyhorse publishing has released the once coveted, now affordable "Poets Ranked by Beard Weight," a hilarious book that classifies and, yes, ranks the quality of Whitman and Tennyson's scraggly facial hair. Amazon describes this gem thusly: "...a tongue-in-cheek classic of Edwardian esoterica, a privately printed leaflet offered by subscription to the informed man of fashion and as a divertissement au courant for the reading bins and cocktail tables of parlor cars, and smoking lounges of gentlemen's clubs. Typifying a once-popular but nowadays seldom-encountered species of turn-of-the-century ephemera, it has become a rarity much prized by bibliophiles." More on HuffPost Books: 'The Marriage Plot' To Be Adapted For Film Flavorwire » Extremely Silly Photos Of Extremely Serious Writers TEST: How Fast Do You Read? How Lincoln Used Words To Get His Way The Stigma Against Self Publishing BLOG POSTS Adharanand Finn: Why are Kenyans the Fastest Runners? (PHOTOS) If you ask Kenyan runners why they are so fast, you usually get what feels like an unsatisfactory answer. It's all down to hard work, they'll say, or they'll talk about having a passion for running. But surely there's more to it than that. Jack Hitt: 14 Ambitious Amateurs Who Made It Big (PHOTOS) America's amateur status has produced one generation after another of tinkerers and fiddlers--kids in dorms, grownups in garages--poking around with a new idea, some of which occasionally become a pair of bifocals, a desktop computer, or a whole new way to organize human society. Mariela Dabbah: Writer Carlos Fuentes Dies Whether you agreed with his point of view or not, Carlos Fuentes always had something to say about literature, culture and politics. Sue Coe: Graphic Novel Illustrates Animal Cruelty (PHOTOS) Hidden in dark sheds, force fed other species body parts and waste, animals exist and die for the propaganda of "meat," that it tastes good, and is good for us. Nothing is further from the truth. Jordan Smoller: The 10 Most Common Phobias (PHOTOS) So what are the most common irrational fears and phobias? Terrorism? Cancer? Commitment? Nope. According to research studies of the U.S. population, the top fears and phobias are closely tied to the kinds of threats our ancestors had to worry about.

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