Wait, Dr. B—I can see where this is going with Whitman clearly a rocker but with Tennyson and Dickinson, I think you’re kind of stretching it, no? and Eliot? With all due respect ma’am you may be out there just a bit beyond the limb? So to speak . . .  Just saying. . .  Well, stay tuned, dear Poetry Slow Down good listener you! And thank you for tuning in, to OUR POETRY SLOW DOWN, making the morning last, and we’re going to rock it today, what Emily Dickinson referred to as Chaos—stopless-cooooooooool, amplitude and awe Continue reading →

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homage and quaff to Sir Peter Shaffer, Charles Wright, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, Mary Oliver, James Wright, Yeats, Chuck Tripi, notes of e.e. cummings, Dylan Thomas, Shakespeare, Homer, and Dave Barry.

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