The prodigal blogger has returned to poetry and now is trying to get caught up. We met at Frances’ house (last November) and discussed the upcoming election. Of course, since we all seem to share the same political sentiments, there wasn’t a whole lot of spirited debating, at least not about who to support [...]
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We Examine the Politics of Poetry
Posted in Billy Collins, Carl Adamshick, Eugene McCarthy, Lanston Hughes, Madeleine Begun Kane, Robert Hayden, Rudyard Kipling, Uncategorized on February 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We Laugh in June
Posted in Billy Collins, Dorothy Parker, Edward Lear, Emily Dickinson, John Hollander, Ogden Nash, Roger McGough, Shel Silverstein on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We laughed and laughed to welcome the summer sun of Karen’s kitchen on June 8. Billy Collins inspires us.
Humor is just an ingredient. It’s one of the humours if you will of the human spirit, as well as grief and loneliness and whatever other emotional notes we are able to flag on ourselves. I don’t [...]
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