POETS Day! Poet-pourri
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] You’re still at work? What do you think you’re getting done between now and quitting time? Cut out and stop pretending. Take a POETS Day. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. First, a little verse. *** I read a lot of poetry that I like but don’t write about. There…
POETS Day! The Scoundrel, Sir John Suckling
You’re still at work? What do you think you’re getting done between now and quitting time? Cut out and stop pretending. Take a POETS Day. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. First, a little verse. *** This week I turned cartwheels in the surf. I exuberated. One passer-by was heard to exclaim, “By Goodness! He’s filled…
POETS Day! The Surprising Alice Meynell
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] I found Alice Meynell in Yeats’s Oxford Book of Modern Verse. The Oxford verse series indexes by poem number, rather than page. So if you look in the back for Meynell’s “I am the Way,” you find it referenced as number 32, meaning the thirty-second poem in the volume rather…
POETS Day! WH Auden’s “Musée de Beaux Arts”
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] You’re still at work? What do you think you’re getting done between now and quitting time? Cut out and stop pretending. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. *** I’ve never heard of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. I’ve read about him. Until earlier this week I knew he was a Dutch…
POETS Day! Elinor Wylie
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] You’re still at work? What do you think you’re getting done between now and quitting time? Cut out and stop pretending. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. *** Elinor Waylie, née Hoyt, was born in Sommerville, New Jersey. My experience with New Jersey folks tells me that she would have…
POETS Day! William Morris
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] You still at work? What do you think you’re getting done between now and quitting time? Cut out and stop pretending. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. First, a little verse. *** Before JRR Tolkien’s Gandalf, there was William Morris’s King Gandolf. Before Tolkien wrote about the horse Shadowfax, Morris…
POETS Day! Leonora Speyer
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] You still at work? What do you think you’re getting done between now and quitting time? Cut out and stop pretending. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. First, a little verse. *** There’s a photograph of Leonora Speyer where she looks to be in her early twenties. She was born to some…
POETS Day! Edwin Arlington Robinson
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] Why are you still at work? 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. *** “We mourn, but with the qualification that, after all, his life was a revel in the felicities of…
POETS Day! Hendecasyllabics
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] Happy 250. I don’t guess many need POETS Day encouragement, but Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s the Semiquincentennial. How blessed are we as a nation that this falls on a weekend? They pledged their Lives, their Fortunes, and their sacred Honor. *** Thomas Campion (1567-1620) tried to squish English poetry…
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…
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