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…
POETS Day! CS Lewis and Roy Campbell Agree to Disagree
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] Major League Baseball season is upon us. The Sweet Sixteen is under way. You need not to be at work. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. First, some verse. *** Roy Campbell says that in February of 1936 he was forced at gunpoint to vote, using a dead Spaniard’s identity, for…
POETS Day! Ford Madox Ford’s “In the Little Old Market-Place”
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] In the Little Old Market-PlaceFord Madox Ford (1873-1939) (To the Memory of A. V.) It rains, it rains,From gutters and drainsAnd gargoyles and gables:It drips from the tablesThat tell us the tolls upon grains,Oxen, asses, sheep, turkeys and fowlsSet into the rain-soaked wallOf the old Town Hall. This is…
POETS Day! D.H. Lawrence
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] I wish I’d never written T.S. Eliot or C.S. Lewis or even E.E. or e.e. cummings because I’ve established a period pattern where now I think TS, CS, and EE/ee is more elegant. The Chicago manual makes a distinction between initials used in combination with a full name – F.D. Roosevelt – and initials used…
POETS DAY! James Dickey
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] Officially, the work week’s nearly done; barely a few hours. What are you doing? You’re not getting anything done between now and then. Cut it out and stop pretending. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. First, a little verse. *** My favorite librarian passed away. I didn’t seen him the…
POETS Day! Lies, Damn Lies
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] Officially, the work week’s gonna be over in a few hours. What are you doing? You’re not getting anything done between now and then. Cut it out and stop pretending. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. First, a little verse. *** “Because, if I am not mistaken, we shall have…
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