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  • Bert Cooper of “Mad Men” believes in you!

    November 6, 2025

      Robert Morse in action. The song is from How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying. Words and music by Frank Loesser, and Morse is doing it here, solo, at an awards ceremony.

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  • “My November Guest’ [by Robert Frost]

    November 5, 2025

    My November Guest My Sorrow, when she's here with me,     Thinks these dark days of autumn rainAre beautiful as days can be;She loves the bare, the withered tree;      She walked the…

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  • No! [by Thomas Hood, 1799-1845]

    November 3, 2025

            No sun—no moon!        No morn—no noon—No dawn—        No sky—no earthly view—        No distance looking blue—No road—no street—no “t’other side the way”— …

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  • Earle R. Hitchner III presents Garrison Keillor presenting Terence Winch’s “Comfort”

    October 31, 2025

    https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2008%252F08%252F23.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aisg1mYTUfs   In that second link, click on the timeline at 3:00 to hear Garrison Keillor recite Terence's poem "Comfort," the text of which I pasted below.    This is the second time that Keillor circulated…

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  • “Mad Men” [by Jim Cummins]

    October 27, 2025

    Mad Men Two men walk through the boardroom.Each one carries a spear; each wears a mask.Each man is afraid of his own death,but is no less willing to strike, to rend, kill.Each mask is…

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  • Farewell from the BAP blog

    September 30, 2025

    We have decided to end the Best American Poetry blog on September 30, 2025, the last day that our host, Typepad, shall remain in business.That this outfit is going under signals, perhaps, the decline of blogs in the…

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