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Jacqueline Berger's "Gin"
Holiday stress melts away after a cocktail.
Dec 16, 2011
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Matthew Birdsall
Edgar Lee Masters' Ace Shaw
"Ace" Shaw features a typical Spoon River braggart whose report justifies his unseemly choice of profession.
Dec 16, 2011
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Linda Sue Grimes
Twas the Night before Christmas: A Case of Literary Fraud?
Did alleged "The Night before Christmas" author Clement Moore claim something he didn't write? Let's marshal up, like toy soldiers, some of the evidence.
Dec 10, 2011
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Rosemary E. Bachelor
Langston Hughes' Mother to Son
Comparing her life to a stairway in an extended metaphor, a mother encourages her son to face life, even though it can be full of difficult challenges.
Dec 9, 2011
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Linda Sue Grimes
The Night Before Christmas
No one has done more to create the image of Santa Claus than Clement Clarke Moore in his poem A Visit From Saint Nicholas or The Night Before Christmas
Dec 8, 2011
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John Howe
Robert Bly's "Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter"
Being cold and alone isn't such a bad thing in this poem.
Dec 2, 2011
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Matthew Birdsall
Edwin Arlington Robinson's Karma
An omniscient narrator dramatizes the musings of a man whose thoughts and actions vaguely imply the concept of karma-reaping and sowing.
Dec 2, 2011
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Linda Sue Grimes
Tamara Madison's "Drop Dead"
In this poem, an insulting phrase becomes an expression of endearment.
Nov 27, 2011
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Matthew Birdsall
Edgar Lee Masters' Dr. Siegfried Iseman
Dr. Siegfried Iseman is the typical Spoon River speaker who blames others for his own destructive path.
Nov 25, 2011
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Linda Sue Grimes
Arthur Chapman's Christmas Shopping at Cactus Center
Chapman's cowboy tells a humorous little tale about a "drug store toilet set," a new schoolmarm, and a brawl that sent her packing.
Nov 18, 2011
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Linda Sue Grimes
S. Omar Barker's Three Wise Men
This Christmas poem narrates an intriguing little story of three lonely cowboys camped far from home who yearn to celebrate a traditional Christmas.
Nov 11, 2011
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Linda Sue Grimes
Sam Hamill's "The Orchid Flower"
"The Orchid Flower" argues that death is beautiful.
Nov 10, 2011
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Matthew Birdsall
Edgar Lee Masters' George Trimble
George Trimble deems himself a victim of his wife's mischievous goading and now lies unmourned in his Spoon River grave.
Nov 4, 2011
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Linda Sue Grimes
David Hernandez's "Retirement Home Melee at the Salad Bar"
"Retirement Home Melee at the Salad Bar" pokes fun at the rumor mill from a safe distance.
Oct 31, 2011
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Matthew Birdsall
Robert Frost's Directive
In Frost's poem, "Directive," the speaker philosophizes about the nature of worldly temporality.
Oct 28, 2011
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Linda Sue Grimes
Dean Young's "Changing Genres"
The poem's speaker does an existential 180 in 20 lines.
Oct 24, 2011
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Matthew Birdsall
Edgar Lee Masters' Margaret Fuller Slack
Named for America's first feminist writer, Margaret Fuller Slack laments motherhood that crushed her dreams of greatness in becoming the next George Eliot.
Oct 21, 2011
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Linda Sue Grimes
Kay Ryan's "Corners"
In this poem, an idiom becomes more than just a tired saying.
Oct 18, 2011
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Matthew Birdsall
James Weldon Johnson's The Creation
Johnson's speaker offers an imaginative, dramatic rendering of the origin of creation.
Oct 14, 2011
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Linda Sue Grimes
Michael Blumenthal, Award Winning Poet, Author - No Ordinary Guy
Michael Blumenthal - award winning poet, an author, educator, lawyer, psychoanalyst and editor, views himself as "just an ordinary guy from the States".
Oct 13, 2011
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Lesley Lanir
