Showing posts with label Chicago Poetry Scene. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicago Poetry Scene. Show all posts
Saturday, July 06, 2013

Chicago Poet - JJ Tindall: Wallace Stevens Without The Insurance Plan and Ezra Pound With All of His Marbles

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  My pal, Chicago poet JJ Tindall smoking a corn-cob pipe ( dang!).  My mistake reciting his brilliant poetry to a worthy audience. Po...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Light - The Paradox in Verse and Inverse Verse: The Foundation for Light Verse

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Poetry is hard work. I am lazy. It is not something that one tosses against the Frigidaire to see if it sticks, unless of course you are a...
Friday, February 25, 2011

My Alderman Must a Poet, I Pray; Like Bathhouse John, Be Matt O'Shea

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On May 16, 2011, Matt O'Shea of St. John Fisher Parish in West Beverly, north of 107th Street, will take the oath as Alderman of 19th Wa...
Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Seamus Heaney - Anything Can Happen 2004

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In 2004 Seamus Heaney, wrote this beautiful imitation of Horace's Odes -many people recognize the terror assault of America on 9/11 here...
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Winter Nights Enlarge - Make Straight The Path of the Toro!

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Winter's allure to delicate and romantic individuals who delight in the miracle that is snow is magic! Click my post title for such sce...
Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Poetic Justice - Poetry Wants No Parole for Norman Porter

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A Louse, is louse, is louse. Worked for Gertie Stein. Poetry is the means by which man best articulates what he sees, feels, thinks, tast...