Tag: poetry
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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May 24, 2009 01:35 PM EDT --
Today is the 71st anniversary of Raymond Carver's birth. Carver, who died at the age of 50 in 1988, was a writer who produced poems that were like short stories, and short stories that were like . . .
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July 19, 2008 12:16 PM EDT --
There are two types of people--those who "get" poetry, and those who don't.
My wife is honest, nay proud that she is one of the first type.
I, on the other hand, was once forced by . . .
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July 28, 2008 03:41 PM EDT --
FAIRFAX, California. Kay Ryan, the newly-annointed poet laureate of the United States, vowed today to use the enormous powers of her office to strike back at the "snobs" who kept her out . . .
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November 22, 2009 03:48 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 or two a good . . .
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October 26, 2007 08:15 AM EDT --
NEW YORK. The small circle of top Wall Street takeover lawyers is a highly competitive bunch, and for good reason. "If you get one big deal, it can mean a multi-million dollar year," . . .
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May 01, 2009 09:05 AM EDT --
It was the form letter that sent me over the edge. "Thank you for submitting your poem to plangent voices, " it began. "Please excuse the form letter, but due to the volume . . .
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May 28, 2009 09:44 AM EDT --
Some corners of the world seem to be consigned to an eternal hell of never-ending strife. The Middle East; Northern Ireland; the faculty lounge at Oxford University.
"You call that bloody . . .
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September 03, 2009 08:09 AM EDT --
Portable crappers, and phat gangsta rappers
Overdressed lawyers, who think that they're dapper
Blonde second wives who are festooned with bling-
These are a few of my least favorite . . .
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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 21, 2008 04:20 PM EDT --
MAYNARD, Mass. It's Tuesday night at the Sitting Duck Pub, a biker bar in this Massachusetts town of 10,000. A reporter asks Darlene Rivers, a thirty-something woman in a tube top, whether . . .
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January 22, 2009 08:58 AM EST --
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the World.
"A . . .
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January 24, 2009 03:55 AM EST --
Call me crazy, but I like to write poetry. For cats.
Cats are a good training ground for poets. They are largely indifferent to poetry, like the overwhelming majority of people, . . .
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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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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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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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August 12, 2008 08:44 AM EDT --
Sometimes as I sit at my desk at night, my hands pressed to my temples, trying to come up with a post that will be rejected by McSweeney's Internet Tendencies and earn me valuable Gather Points, I . . .
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September 18, 2008 09:23 AM EDT --
Where are the goofy hairdos of the past--
the ones my mom gave to my sisters, I ask?
They'd bring home a box of Lilt Home Permanent
To propel the girls' locks to the tonsorial . . .
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