Archive - Might Stain Your Shirt

POETS Day! Katharine Tynan

I can't help but feel like she was so involved in the Irish cause because it was cool; that at a later date she would have been a woman Tom Hayden swore…

Oct 10 •

POETS Day! EB White

I was disappointed to learn that his niece was named Janice rather than Charlotte. I assume she was too.

Oct 3 •

September 2025

Carr, Kimmel, and the Threat

Try as I might, I can't get worked up over this one.

Sep 30 •

POETS Day! Emily Brontë

I was of the assumption that all women read Emily Brontë as girls. I never had cause to question.

Sep 26 •

POETS Day! Robert Bly

Bly looked the stereotypical new ager: mid-life clinging longish gray hair, loosely knotted tie peeking out from under his sarape, and surety smile.

Sep 19 •

Entangling the Kirk Assassination in Romance

What would be shocking is a killer who killed for politics that didn’t loom large in his or her life.

Sep 18 •

POETS Day! Katherine Mansfield

She’s flighty, hops from love to love, racist but only around kids, and though capable of putting together a good poem, rarely does.

Sep 12 •

POETS Day! Yeats and Graves and the Moon

Robert Graves, W.B. Yeats, Mother, Maiden, Crone... But most importantly, I make my poetic debut.

Sep 5 •

August 2025

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