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“You’re An Idiot, Babe. It’s A Wonder That You Still Know How to Breathe.”
On Robert Frost, “He is the only straight white man on this list and you should take my recommendation of a straight white man really heavily because you know he really had to do something good to get on this … Continue reading
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Tagged arts and letters, cancel culture, discrimination, literary criticism, poetry reading, white privilege, woke
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You Kissed Me by Josephine Slocum Hunt
You Kissed Me Josephine Slocum Hunt (? -?) Has that magic moment ever been better described? I can’t immediately find any information on Hunt. Can you help? Leave a comment or email: thomasfarley@fastmail.com Update: January 27, 2022 Mr. Farley, I … Continue reading
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Tagged female poets, ghizlea rowe, josephine slocum hunt, Poetry, poetry reading, slocum hunt, video, YouTube
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Richard Dawkins Reads A.E. Housman
Richard Dawkins Reads A.E. Housman From Poems that Make Grown Men Cry, Anthony and Ben Holden, ed., Simon and Schuster, Limited (2015) This video was for the UK’s National Poetry Day in 2014: https://nationalpoetryday.co.uk/previous-years/ (external link) Turn on the close captioning. … Continue reading
The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot
The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot Mistah Kurtz—he dead. A penny for the Old Guy I We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together … Continue reading