‘Old Clem’: Song from Dickens’ Great Expectations Set to Music by Jeff Eardley
. Old Clem In his novel Great Expectations, Charles Dickens refers to a song sung by blacksmiths at the forge...
Found Poems
‘If You Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank
. If You Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter If solidified oil with chemical clutter That helps it look yellow and...
‘At Thirteen’: A Poem Inspired Across Generations, by Lucia Haase
. At Thirteen At thirteen, I received a birthday card from Buffalo, my aunt sent my Dad’s poem he’d written...
An Incidentally Anti-Woke Poem from 1992 by Kevin Shearer
. Race and Color, 1992 I see white and you see black and other shades of skin in fact. Though...
‘Calendar Poems’: An Essay by Margaret Coats
. Calendar Poems by Margaret Coats January loves what goblets hold, And February complains of cold. March plows the fields...
Poems Against Birth Control, from Joshua C. Frank
. Two Empty Chairs “We did the NFP bit for awhile ... and have felt revulsion over it ever since....
‘Forever and Evermore’ by Margaret Hunt Brisbane, Put to Music by Gunny Markefka
. Introduction In a second-hand bookshop, located in the French Quarter (New Orleans), I discovered a poetry book by Margaret...
Rhyming Drugstore Advertisements,1885
Selected by Beverly Stock ---From Liver Pills to stuff that kills, and makes it smooth to die, The last is...
Poem Found on Our Lady of Guadalupe Painting, Translated by Margaret Coats
The Painting of the Virgin God, seeing in America a child Embracing Faith with jubilation meet, Took up His paints,...
Verses from the Irish Peace Park
In the first World War, taking and holding the high ground was everything. The battle of Messines Ridge, in Belgium,...
English Tomb Poetry, With an Introduction by James A. Tweedie
by James A. Tweedie On my most recent visit to England in 2017, I paused to record a number of...
‘Carmen Cygni, a Retourne’ by Mike Bryant
Carmen Cygni, a Retourne She holds the sickle and the scythe, Dark clothed and hooded, glimpse of white. A...
‘Believe It True’ (A Found Poem circa World War I)
Believe It True That you have made my world a wondrous garden Fair with your lips, and glad with your...
Poetry Found: ‘The Battery Horse’ by E.R. Henry
Presented by Monty Phillips Given that the recent days have been rightfully occupied by the remembering of the humans who...
Thank you Bhikkhu — that’s quite kind. Mr. Anderson also makes a good point in his comment above.
You’re welcome, Paul. Thanks. I wonder if you’re speaking primarily of professors or students, or both equally?
Thank you Gerard. I wish I was that way too!
Good point — thanks. I presume that situation would harken back to the first poem above.
Thank you Joe. Your insights are always so valuable, and that’s a great story about Professor Ward. Thanks for writing!
