POETS Day! Sir Philip Sidney Didn’t Get the Girl
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] Welcome once again to POETS Day, where we usher in Henry Ford’s greatest creation – the weekend – a few hours ahead of schedule by embracing the ethos of the day: Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. Life’s too short for work, and nobody’s gonna notice if you hoof it…
POETS Day! Poems from Wallace Stevens’s Harmonium
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] TGIF is POETS for those without initiative. Make it happen. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. First, a little verse. *** Wallace Stevens started late. His first poetry collection held an impressive, by debut poetry collection standards, eighty five titles, but when the book, Harmonium, was published in 1923, its author…
POETS Day! The Present in TS Eliot’s “The Dry Salvages”
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] Welcome once again to POETS Day, where we usher in Henry Ford’s greatest creation – the weekend – a few hours ahead of schedule by embracing the ethos of the day: Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. Life’s too short for work, and nobody’s gonna notice if you hoof it…
POETS Day! Ezra Pound’s Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] The work week’s nearly finito; barely a few hours left. What are you doing? You’re not getting anything done between now and quitting time. Cut out and stop pretending. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. First, a little verse. *** Ezra Pound was a very good poet but not a master…
POETS Day! Dorothy Wellesley
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] The work week’s nearly finito; barely a few hours left. What are you doing? You’re not getting anything done between now and quitting time. Cut out and stop pretending. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. First, a little verse. *** from FireDorothy Wellesley (1889-1956) (‘Does not our life consist of…
POETS Day! Hugh MacDiarmid Thistled While He Worked
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] I just got an email from my son’s college informing parents that our little darlings have to be out of the dorms by May, 9. That went quickly. Tempis fugit, carpe diem, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it,”…
POETS Day! Apes in Hell
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] The work week’s nearly done and you’re spending these last few hours doing what exactly? Trying to look busy? Surreptitiously scanning restaurant reviews? Checking game times? Texting your friends about restaurants and game times? Cut it out and cut out. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. First, a little verse.…
POETS DAY! Keats Gets Snippy About Wordsworth
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] In the summer of 1818, John Keats and his friend Charles Armitage Brown went on a walking tour of Scotland. It looks like the pair covered somewhere between six hundred to six hundred and fifty miles over forty-four days, so about fifteen miles a day, give or take and accounting for…
POETS Day! George William Russell, Co-Host of the Irish Literary Revival
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] For those who care about golf, this is your time. The Masters and its NPR whisper-excitement for four televised days is a duck out of work away. For those who don’t care about golf, it’s going to be a pain in the ass getting a table at the neighborhood…
POETS Day! St John of the Cross as Translated by Roy Campbell
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] Happy Easter and Ziessen Pesach, if I have that right. All to all. There may not be work to get out of, but here’s some pseudo-POETS Day mystic verse. *** When Juan Yepes, ordained John Matthias and later changed to John of the Cross, died in 1591, crowds thronged…
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