Category: illustrators
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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…
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Wrestling Poetry Project
______ ______ Edited in December 9, 2009. This post was a call for wrestling poems. It was posted July 13, 2009. Four and a half months later, on November 29, 2009, the collection of 52 poems that came from this call was posted: All-World Wrestling Poetry—a collection of 52 wrestling poems…
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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)…
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A Gaping-Wide-Mouth Waddling Frog, illustrated by Walter Crane
_____ illustrated by Walter Crane (1845-1915) from The Buckle My Shoe Picture Book (1910) (see The Flip Book version at Internet Archive) A Gaping-Wide-Mouth Waddling Frog A gaping-wide-mouth-waddling frog, Two puddings’ ends would choke a…
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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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