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Two Prose Poems (by Nin Andrews)
"Yes" and "Never Say Yes" (by Nin Andrews) Yes Orgasms are bad news. In the town where I grew up, orgasms were against the law. No one had an orgasm, not even God. By…
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Billy Collins and cartoons
<< American poet laureate, Billy Collins has a wonderful article in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal on his principal source of influence, the Warner Brother’s Saturday morning cartoons that he watched as a child. He…
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WWEDD? [by Sally Ashton]
288 (redux) I’m Nobody! Who are you?Are you — Nobody — Too?Then there’s a pair of us!Don’t tell! they’d advertise — you know! How dreary — to be — Somebody!How public — like a…
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Sharpen Your Pencils – Enter the Clerihew Contest!
The Boston Globe’s Miss Conduct Blog is sponsoring a Clerihew contest in honor of Clerihew day (July 10). Go here for contest rules. The winner will receive a copy of The Best American Poetry…
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Academic Graffiti
Auden collected his clerihews under the title Academic Graffiti (1952, 1970). Here are several of my favorites from the Auden oeuvre: When Karl MarxFound the phrase ‘financial sharks,’He sang a Te DeumIn the British…
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Poetry and Music
Lloyd Schwartz is Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Classical Music Editor of The Boston Phoenix, and a regular commentator for NPR’s Fresh Air. His most recent book…
