Category: art
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A Selection of Kitten Verse by Oliver Herford
_____ Oliver Herford was born in Sheffield, England in 1863 and moved with his family to Chicago, Illinois when he was twelve, then onto Boston seven years later. After schooling back in England and then in Ohio, he moved to New York City with his wife Margaret Regan, where he […]
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Misplaced Leisure Water: The Displaced Function of Poetry
In a Books Inq. blog post from yesterday, the Philadelphia Inquirer’s books editor, Frank Wilson, linked to this item in Poetry Magazine: Does Poetry Have a Social Function? Here is some of what he wrote: On New Year’s Eve, one of our dinner guests, a beautiful Chinese woman, read several classical […]
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I am sorry you had to leave Reine
in response to Linda Ronstadt singing Roy Orbison’s “Blue Bayou” alongside a Dag Hol painting of Reine, Lofoten, when unfinished I am sorry you had to leave Reine You could not stay with me, a middle-aged woman of the fjord, who from birth […]
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Wrestling With Poetry in November
by Homer (ca. 8th century BCE) translated by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) The Iliad Book 23: Funeral Games in Honour of Patroclus [wherein Achilles bestows on Nestor the unawarded fifth prize, the two-handled urn] Achilles this to reverend Nestor bears. […]