Tag: poem
member name: Con Chapman
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January 21, 2009 08:32 AM EST --
Suicide is the occupational hazard of female poets, like falls from buildings for window washers. The western suburbs of Boston form a sort of Bermuda Triangle of this phenomenon: Sylvia Plath, . . .
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October 28, 2009 03:42 PM EDT --
Boston may no longer be the Hub of the Universe, but its Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area remains the undisputed capital of America in at least one respect--home of suicidal poetesses.
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October 02, 2006 10:10 AM EDT --
I'm thinking about a poem . . . .
you know the kind I mean
it has words scattered all over the page
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November 12, 2008 09:37 PM EST --
News item: A Boston-area radio station began playing Christmas music on Veteran's Day this year, the earliest date ever.
Holiday people, being too cheerful.
I'd like to give one . . .
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October 21, 2009 06:39 PM EDT --
Where does the foam from the lattes go?
I’m not being flip-I want to know.
When I don’t say “no foam” at the espresso bar
It sticks . . .
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October 29, 2009 07:09 PM EDT --
There once was a young man who from date of birth
Showed promise of one day achieving great worth.
His parents sure thought so, his teachers did too--
He’d really be something . . .
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October 25, 2009 12:47 PM EDT --
A rainy Saturday afternoon in the offices of plangent voices, the poetry quarterly I helped found nearly three decades ago, and from which I was summarily ousted in a hostile takeover in the early . . .
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August 18, 2007 01:30 PM EDT --
STRAFFORD, New Hampshire. Charles Simic, a 69 year-old resident of this small New Hampshire town who has been nominated to be the nation's next poet laureate, faces charges of plagiarism . . .
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December 20, 2008 03:23 PM EST --
Elizabeth Alexander, a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, has been selected to read an original poem at President-elect Barack . . .
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November 25, 2008 12:33 PM EST --
There is an axiom, often attributed to Henry Kissinger but actually the discovery of political scientist Charles Sayre, that goes as follows: "In any dispute, the intensity of . . .
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February 18, 2009 08:03 AM EST --
Federal agents are warning leaders at top universities to be on the lookout for foreign spies or potential terrorists . . .
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August 21, 2009 07:52 AM EDT --
BOSTON. Jack Flavin is an untenured "gypsy" professor who tries to keep body and soul together by teaching wherever he can among the Boston area's many colleges and universities, but most months . . .
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September 27, 2008 09:32 PM EDT --
Upon the Poet's Learning That His Cats Had Chased Off a Pack of Coyotes
You wish for assistance?
No, my cousin Okie.
If we die, it is our master's loss,
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September 01, 2009 08:08 AM EDT --
I'd never been in a building built before 1940. Even my dorm--I'd never seen anything with that much history. Everyone else was really relaxed about it, but I was like tripped out. . . .
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October 06, 2009 09:33 PM EDT --
To lie fallow for awhile--
at least for a season--
and then, revived by disuse,
to bear a different crop than before.
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