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Bert Cooper of “Mad Men” believes in you!
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]
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]
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”
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]
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
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…
