Poetry

Americans can relate to this Spanish Flu poem from 1918

From The Greenville (S.C.) News Nov. 23, 1918

Slam

The new transcendentalism

Thoreau would be proud. According to the News 14 Carolina story, The peach tree at Wiley International Studies Magnet Elementary School near downtown Raleigh is already starting to sprout fruit.…

Bad poetry is good fun

?The Hatemonger?s Quarterly? announced the winners of the Fifth Annual Horrible College-Student Poetry Competition. Here are a few of my favorite stanzas/lines: From ?sonnet of (equaliteez)? how R U racist?…

What does Carrboro’s official poet do?

Outgoing Carrboro town poet Todd Sandvik will decide who will replace him this summer in the two-year post. Sandvik told The Herald-Sun the position is an ambassador to the arts.…

Some post-Christmas poetry

Still in that holiday spirit?  Here’s a great poem to bring you back to earth that I found on Arcamax.   “Twas the day after Christmas, and all through the…

Quoth the Rodham

Jon, I wonder what Dr. Pritchard would think of this poem by Steve Skaggs, a poetry blogger friend of mine in Oregon: Raptor Up The Rodham looks a downy bird…

Begone, Bruce Springsteen!

Understanding Poetry, by Dr. J. Evans Pritchard, Ph.D.: “To fully understand poetry, we must first be fluent with its meter, rhyme, and figures of speech. Then ask two questions: One,…

A wonderful tribute to Mr. Pope

I don’t want our LR readers to miss John Hood’s elegant paean to John William Pope, one of the most gracious gentlemen and Tar Heels ever to bless the Old…

A call to action

An old Air Force buddy of mine blogs in rhyme out in Oregon. One of his recent works, “Tax the Rich,” seems just the ticket for regular readers of The…

Lord S. Does a Body Good!

Some Lockerroom readers know about my affection for the regular meetings of the Shaftesbury Society. Luncheon speakers provide thoughtful ? oftentimes entertaining, and occasionally provocative ? presentations on a wide…

More fodder for my burgeoning “Roses Are Red, Poems That Blew” file

These come care of Mike Adams’ column today and are part of the required reading of a graduate student in the UNC system. Owing to space concerns here, I’ll just…