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Where are the great poems of parenting a four year old? [by Rachel Barenblat]
Last time I did a guest stint here I wrote about poems of parenting an infant. This time I'm here to ask: Where are the poems of parenting a growing child — perhaps a…
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Leave It to Beaver: The Lost Episode Guide [by Larry Sawyer]
Perhaps the archetypal “feel-good” family situational comedy, the television show Leave it to Beaver first aired on April 23, 1957 and provided viewers with a peek into the inner melodramatic turmoil of the Cleaver…
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OCTOBER LIMERICKS [by Anthony Madrid]
LIMERICKS 21.There was an old person named Fletcher,Who was carried away on a stretcher.When he said, “Put me down,” they one-eightied around,And then brought him back home on the stretcher.22.There was a young man…
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Russian music [by Rachel Barenblat]
Today I'm thinking about these lines from John Berryman: "Fall is grievy, brisk. / Tears behind the eyes // almost fall. / Fall comes to us as a prize / to rouse us toward…
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Happy birthday, Herbert Engelhardt (9/30/13) [by David Lehman]
I phoned Herbwhose last namemeans AngelHeart today onhis eighty-ninthbirthday and wished him"many happy returns"at which he balkedthough in general helikes my use of slightlyout-of-date cliches. "You said happy," Herbsaid. "You show mean eighty-nine yearold…
