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“On the first of May, it is moving day” (Mountain Greenery by Rogers and Hart)
Try to beat these rhymes: — sdh
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A Feast for Bards: 13 Favorite Food Poems by Stacey Harwood (from Saveur.com)
Credit: Hiroko Ishikawa (Author's note: A couple of months ago Saveur.com asked for my favorite food poems along with a brief introduction. This piece ran yesterday.) Had he but world enough, and time, Jean…
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Happy Birthday, Srikanth Reddy! [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]
SRIKANTH REDDY (5/1)Chicu-chicu cheek-cheekReady on the setRelegate the televisionTo the bassinette Marmoset and marmaladeAre martyrin’ the dudeOh, how we gonna execute Without exactitudeBoutonnière, boutonnière, Buddha bourguignonAnd Chicu-chicu cheek-cheekRushin’ at the sunSigh away, Starlight!Leisure, suit…
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Speak the Speech, Part I [by David Yezzi]
Of poetry, Marianne Moore famously wrote: “I, too, dislike it.” I wonder what she might have said about poetry readings? Moore herself was, I think, a charming reader, but, like her poems, also idiosyncratic.…
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Cory’s Choral Story [by David Yezzi]
I like E. A. Robinson. I really do. No, I mean it. I really like his stuff much of the time. Especially the lyrics. The long poems, not so much (except maybe as sleep…
