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Print PDFBy Brendan Galvin Thistle, you look like another of evolution’s jokes, impossible as a great blue heron seems impossible, though you both are brilliant survivors. Still, mixed metaphor, it looks like someone hung you all over with shaving brushes … Continue reading
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Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
Print PDFIt was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than … Continue reading
Presidential Poem of the Week
Print PDFI Hear America Singing By Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892) I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, … Continue reading
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On the Value of Art
Print PDFValue is subjective. Without readers, a poem is worthless. In this sense, the value of art is analogous to the value of our world. Without those who experience it, our world may as well not exist. Given such a … Continue reading
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What him say?
Print PDFBrendan Galvin and the late George Garrett briefly edited a mischievous journal intended to parody Poetry, A Magazine of Verse. If memory serves, it was called Poultry, A Magazine of Voice. Or maybe it was “voyce.” At any rate, … Continue reading
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James Dickey’s “Deer Among Cattle,” a Warm-up to Snopes
Print PDFWho reads Roethke anymore? In the late sixties his work was widely loved, and Jim Dickey seemed the heir to Roethke’s great dramatic force and his sense of the non-human living things. When I decided to feature Dickey’s “Deer … Continue reading
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“Break, Break, Break” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Print PDFBreak, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O, well for the fisherman’s boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! O, … Continue reading
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