Poesy and Memorial Day
When I was young, my grandparents made me a deal: Five bucks for every poem I could memorize and recite from a book of poetry they gave me that Christmas. It was an astonishing amount of money at the time, … Continue reading
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Today’s Poetry
In today’s New York Times the columnist Maureen Dowd perceptively links Robert Frost’s poem “The Lesson for Today” with President Barack Obama: I’m liberal. You, you aristocrat, Won’t know exactly what I mean by that. I mean so altruistically moral … Continue reading