Emily Dickinson in her own words: ‘As if I asked a common Alms’ (Collected Letters)
I wrote back and begged him to be my Preceptor, whatever the hell that meant.
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The Theme of the Week is Sports Chafing
Elizabeth Barret Browning was famous for her hot zumba rashes, of which she complains in Sonnets to the Portuguese XIX.
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‘Paean of the High Plains Drifter’ by Guy Duvet
SHOULD WE NEVER SPEAK WHAT WE SAY /
IN THREAT OF BRITTLE LOVE
YOU WRITE POETRY, UNCLE TOBY?
TweetTOBY’S POETRYA Poetry Chapbook by Toby Poem One: Love Love is like a pumpkin pieCooling on a window sill. Butterflies…
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The Theme of the Week is Cup-O-Joe
TweetEvery week our Theme Expert, Teddy, goes into detail on a new theme. This week’s theme is Cup-O-Joe. You are a…
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Emily Dickinson in her own words: ‘A Tooth upon Our Peace’ (459)
I was sitting primly in the Parlour, holding my head proudly erect because I was about to skunk my brother Austin four games in a row in cribbage and the tinkling little ice cubes in his untouched lemonade had melted into soft little nubs where the glass sat on its damp coaster next to his pale fat hand…
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The Theme of the Week is Ragamuffins
TweetEvery week our Theme Expert, Teddy, goes into detail on a new theme. This week’s theme is Ragamuffins. If you…
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Children’s book excerpt: ‘GAFFE THE GIRAFFE’ by Dr. Mitchell M. Seuss
TweetOur film reviewer Mitchell Kennedy has apparently decided to branch out into the field of children’s literature, perhaps pursuing in…
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‘Gulliver Soles’ by Gulliver S. Gulliver
TweetGulliver Soles Not the suns of your son Welford pistons in the night off the spat, tobacco river Flees La…
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New Poem ‘Love’
Frankengirl is the pen name of Mary Gulliver, daughter of the famous Modernist poet Gulliver S. Gulliver. Contrary to expectations, she was in fact quite easy on the eye.
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The Theme of the Week is Fruit
TweetEvery week our Theme Expert, Teddy, goes into detail on a new theme. This week’s theme is Fruit. This week’s…
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THIS IS WHAT LITERARY CRITIC AND ASSHOLE DON MARKENBALDI IS WEARING TODAY
Tweet17 July 2021 So the three-time Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism winner, Harvard Professor Emeritus jackass was volunteering at…
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‘Thunder King Sprinkler at Dawn’ by Jeebs Finzach (Summer 1932)
Tweet Thunder King sprinkler at dawnOne foot tippledT’other sawnlogs. Antonio shifted in the outbuildingSkillet spit, phono-graph’s pho-nemePlowed. Rare wind from…
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BOOK EXCERPT: ‘FRIED GREEN RUTABAGAS’ BY MITCHELL O’HARA
But Margaret would not be consoled, and fell into a heap on the fancy carpeting.
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This Week’s Theme is Antibacterial Gel
As more and more poets are vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, many will begin to experience a strange nostalgia for the year that was 2020-21, with its masks, chlorine doormats, oxygen tanks, and of course Antibacterial Gel.
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OH, I JUST DIED IN YOUR ARMS TONIGHT
Who would have thought a boy like me could come to this.
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‘A soft Sea washed around the House’ (1198)
TweetEmily Dickinson in her own words Colin Gee ‘Get up on the couch, Susan,’ I cried, already up there myself.…
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BOOK EXCERPT: ‘PRINCESS LEATHERHELM’ BY MITCHELL DARKWING
TweetCHAPTER I “Princess Leatherhelm!” cried the gnome Jerrod, and he held out a small parcel wrapped in rough brown paper…
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Lemondrop reads poetry: ‘This Fair Oak’ by Maria Steinburg-Piccadilly
TweetToday we will be reading a poem from one of my favorite authors, Maria Steinburg-Piccadilly, an eloquent poetess and Earth…
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The Theme of the Week is Muscle Cars
TweetEvery week our Theme Expert, Teddy, goes into detail on a new theme. This week’s theme is Muscle Cars. This…
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‘in the sad bin of dusters be’
One of the angriest members of Los Decepcionados, f. f. francés led a truly checkered life as poet, revolutionary, and renegado.
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