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Poems by William Carlos Williams
Originally posted on The Monkey Prodigy: So the Dad Poet and I will be posting poems by 4 different poets this month (National Poetry Month). You better appreciate this because we’re not very good at it. Anyway, I have 3 poems by William Carlos Williams here. Listen to them and your day might become 10…
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Happy Poetry Month
“Exactly what this country needs . . . we are what we believe.” For the first day of National Poetry Month in the US (Cue comments from friends who write essays about why we don’t need poetry month hoopla. As the kids say, “Whatever.”) Here is a Saturday SongHere is a Saturday Song, well-chosen by…
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Tuesday Tune Unbelievers
It’s not that I don’t believe in Tuesday Tunes, but since I already feature Monday Music and Saturday Songs, I usually leave the Tuesday Tunes to my son, the Monkey. But I kinda needed a song to bring the mood up a bit here on this blog and I missed Monday, so now I’m cheating.…
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In Memory of Okla Elliot, Three Poems
On Monday morning, the first day of spring, I stepped out my door and looked up to the clouds that were breaking. I smiled to think how the chill this morning would be warming up as the day went on, according to the weather forecast. Still gazing at the sky, I remember saying, “Good morning,…
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Lara Dolphin, Winter 2017
It’s hard for me to pick favorites from either of the two Word Fountain issues that I’ve had a part in bringing to life. But here is one that got me excited back when we first received the submission. I love when a poet takes something old, twists it around, and makes me look at…
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Two Letters, Two Brothers, Ten Years Apart
A TBT for today about two letters, written about a decade apart, one by me and one by my brother Jeff when we were 9 and 10 years of age. It still gives me giggles and foggy glasses every time. Source: Two Letters, Two Brothers, Ten Years Apart
