Archive For The “Other People’s Poetry” Category

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

By | September 23, 2011

As a Lit major, I love poetry. If you had told me that the hours I spent analyzing it and writing papers would make me actually memorize passages I would have told you I’m not that hardcore. And yet. It comes to me at unexpected moments. When I wrote the post about the latest in [...]

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By | September 6, 2011

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We are sitting in the waiting room at Mayo Clinic and Pete is reading Cat Fancy. It’s Biopsy Day #2. Biopsy Day #1 was a waste of time and money. The doctor at Florida Hospital did not take enough of a tissue sample and sent it to what I’m now calling a nephropathology farm, so [...]

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This is It

By | July 12, 2011

                This is It by James Broughton This is It and I am It and You are It and so is That and He is It and She is It and It is It and That is That O It is Thus and It is Them and It is [...]

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Afraid So

By | December 9, 2010

Afraid So by Jeanne Marie Beaumont Is it starting to rain? Did the check bounce? Are we out of coffee? Is this going to hurt? Could you lose your job? Did the glass break? Was the baggage misrouted? Will this go on my record? Are you missing much money? Was anyone injured? Is the traffic [...]

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The Dead

By | October 4, 2010

By Billy Collins

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