Category: dead poets

Jack Kerouac’s Childhood Homes in West Centralville–66 West St. Turns into Rt. 66 West

_____ Jack Kerouac’s Childhood Homes in West Centralville—66 West St. Turns into Rt. 66 West The collage shows Jack Kerouac with all six of his homes in the West Centralville section of Lowell Massachusetts, plus the St. Louis School, part of the parish. The photo of Kerouac is taken…

September 16, 2010
All-World Wrestling Poetry—a collection of 52 wrestling poems

_____ _____ The poems in this collection are on wrestling—the collegiate and amateur styles—but also how we wrestle with life, where we find wrestling in our lives, plus our gods, prophets and heroes past, those who have wrestled the classic bouts. It is modern and boundary-busting, and at the…

November 29, 2009
. . . and don’t forget these Christmas poems

Anonymous At the Last The stream is calmest when it nears the tide, And flowers are sweetest at eventide, The birds most musical at close of day, The saints divinest when they…

December 21, 2008
Ten Thousand Thanks

_____ Thank you ten thousand times. Just a few hours ago, the most popular post yet here at Clattery MacHinery on Poetry, Alley War Poetry, received its 10,000th hit. That’s a lot of readers for a poetry blog post. I’ve had ten thousand thoughts come and go, about how good or…

June 14, 2008
Posing Aemilia Lanyer (as Shakespeare; as his Dark Lady; and as she posed)

______ ______ Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645), was born in London to Baptista Bassano and his possibly common-law wife Margaret Johnson. At age 23, the then Aemilia Bassano married her cousin Alphonso Lanyer, supposedly after becoming pregnant by Henry Carey, Lord Hudson. She had two children, a son Henry and a daughter Odillya, who…

June 8, 2008
The Long Abandon’d Hill, for Frank Wilson as he retires

~~~~~ It is not quite right to say that Frank Wilson, books editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, is retiring today. It is better to say that The Inquirer is retiring. In parts of the world where there is tyrannical rule, our journalists and poets are politically silenced as threats, because they start…

February 8, 2008
Lite Verse with No Cholesterol or Trans Fat, by 33 Already Dead Poets, 6 Unknown Anyway

~~~~~ The following poems are selected from the 1920 collection The Book of Humorous Verse, edited by Carolyn Wells (1862-1942). Each poet is represented only once, and in alphabetical order. However, links are provided so that you can investigate each one. ~~~~~ by L. J. Bridgman (1857-1931)…

January 28, 2008