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POETS Day! Yeats and Graves and the Moon
Robert Graves, W.B. Yeats, Mother, Maiden, Crone... But most importantly, I make my poetic debut.
7 hrs ago
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Ben Sears
August 2025
POETS Day! From Henley to Plath
He's Long John Silver with a Lost Girl daughter and she's the real live lost girl inspiration behind a million composition notebooks filled with bad…
Aug 29
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Ben Sears
Elections in Birmingham, Thoughts on Weasels
The city council is bad, but the mayor is worse and all need to be run out of town as fast as the stupid anti-street racing speed bumps they put all…
Aug 25
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Ben Sears
POETS Day: LSU and Robert Penn Warren
I have no idea what run[ning] forward into experience means. I don’t think Bedient does either, as it were...
Aug 22
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Ben Sears
POETS Day! Percy Wyndham Lewis
Percy Wyndham Lewis was friends with Eliot, Pound, and many renowned poets, all of whom I hope gave him hell for the “Hindu/two” rhyme.
Aug 1
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Ben Sears
May 2025
POETS Day! Philip Pain and MJ
When he dies and they lay him to rest, he wants to go to the place that's the best, so he’s wondering if he crossed all the Ts.
May 30
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Ben Sears
POETS Day! The Honorable Archibald MacLeish
MacLeish sought Pound’s approval, sending him his long poem "Conquistador" for critique. Per MacLeish, Pound said it was “damn bad.”
May 16
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Ben Sears
POETS Day! Walter James Turner, “Australia’s Georgian Poet”
This is too easy.
May 9
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Ben Sears
POETS Day! Things from William Carlos Williams
People who read a lot mispronounce words.
May 2
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Ben Sears
April 2025
POETS Day! Anne Bradstreet
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is out!
Apr 25
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Ben Sears
Easter with Family
My mother died on Halloween, 2008.
Apr 18
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Ben Sears
POETS Day! The Admirable Oliver St. John Gogarty
There’s a bar near me that goes all out for the Masters.
Apr 11
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Ben Sears
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