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Cicadas and a Poem by Jennifer L. Knox [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, Blue skies, pink cherry trees, yellow and red tulips, new-green leaves. As your correspondent from Brooklyn I report that all this color is exploding on the usual grey of asphalt and slate,…
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The Greening of Bohemia [by David Yezzi]
I want to tell you about one of my favorite poems at the moment. It’s from Lord Byron’s Foot, by George Green, which was selected last year by David Mason for The New Criterion…
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Speak the Speech, Part II [by David Yezzi]
If you can keep your head, while Dennis Hopper recites Rudyard Kipling’s “If” on the Johnny Cash Show, then you are a better man than me, my son. Check it out: The poem…
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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…
