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- 81 Views
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December 22: Making My List 4: Filter Them From Your Self
DECEMBER 22, 2011 9:24AM
Topics: stuff i want to help make possible, public scholarship, primary sources, teaching, song of myself, walt whitman
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- 625 Views
- 5 Comments
Reading Mark Twain
AUGUST 16, 2011 12:10PM
Topics: american literature, this american life, mark twain, danagram, daniel rigney, war prayer+twain, innocents at home, letter from the earth+twain, samuel clemens, david foster wallace, kurt vonnegut, martin luther king, dorothy parker, walt whitman, emily dickinson, samuel clemens was no mark twain, mark twain was no mark twain, mick jagger was no mick jagger, twain was no shakespeare, american provincialism, cosmoplolitan provincialism, humor, belief/religion, books, certainty is an emotion, william james+will to believe, greetings earthlings, reading project, shakespeare was no shakespeare, staycation, literary stay-cation, comedy, fiction, open+call, poetry
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- 286 Views
- 4 Comments
First Bull Run, part 3: The Aftermath
JULY 23, 2011 7:19AM
Topics: first battle of bull run, first manassas for them's as prefers, civil war, american civil war, abraham lincoln, general winfield scott, anaconda plan, strategy, maturation, irvin mcdowell, george brinton mcclellan, edwin stanton, thomas rr cobb, edmund ruffin, mary boykin chestnut, army of the potomac, army of northern virginia, walt whitman, horace greeley, the common soldier says it best
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- 198 Views
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Writers' Houses
JULY 14, 2011 7:09PM
Topics: walt whitman, writers' houses
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- 1371 Views
- 44 Comments
Dear Open Salon Poets: Please Read Poetry
MAY 9, 2011 6:26AM
Topics: poem, poetry, ted kooser, billy collins, john updike, dylan thomas, ray bradbury, william shakespeare, percy bysshe shelley, john keats, allen ginsberg, philip larkin, elizabeth bishop, delmore schwartz, walt whitman, emily dickinson, james wright, sylvia plath, jared carter, czeslaw milosz, wislawa szymborska, open salon
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- 198 Views
- 3 Comments
Walt Whitman, Census Taker
APRIL 19, 2011 10:16PM
Topics: walt whitman, bad poetry, poem, doggerel, parody, satire, comedy, spoof, humor
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- 226 Views
- 5 Comments
Off of the Train His Mother He Threw a Kiss
APRIL 18, 2011 8:33PM
Topics: poem, bad poetry, doggerel, walt whitman
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- 412 Views
- 13 Comments
Whitman found
APRIL 13, 2011 12:26PM
Topics: walt whitman, recalled to life, comedy, lyn lejeune, vampires, aristophanes, belief/religion, business, books, fiction, poetry
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- 362 Views
- 13 Comments
THAT THING OF BEAUTY
MARCH 13, 2011 12:15PM
Topics: lyn lejeune, elijah rising, walt whitman, mark twain, lou gehrig, ty cobb, roger angell, ken burns, pete rose, tommy lasorda, yogi bera, david halberstam, the teammates, the natural, bernard malamud, mark harris, bang the drum slowly, roger kahn, the boys of summer, ernest lawrence thayer, jackie robinson, alexander cartwright, excelsior baseball club, kickerbockers, baseball, expert opinion
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- Editor's Pick
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- 48 Comments
my romance
FEBRUARY 13, 2011 10:06AM
Topics: poem, walt whitman, all work is noble all workers are worthy of breath, sometimes we must love all and allow everything to thrum in us and around us, save someone with joy, give up, i love my wife deborah renee kaufman and i love all i love, open call
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- 295 Views
- 5 Comments
American Anthems
FEBRUARY 3, 2011 10:41AM
Topics: allen ginsberg, howl, thomas jefferson, delaration of independence, i hear america singing, american pie, don mclean, walt whitman, aaron copeland, american anthems
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- 469 Views
- 18 Comments
Dead Authors Speaking
JANUARY 16, 2011 10:12AM
Topics: video, politics, poetry, fiction, books, belief/religion, the road not taken, robert frost, faulkner at virginia, william faulkner, " captain! my captain!, walt whitman, gettysburg address, abraham lincoln, ode to a nightingale, f. scott fitzgerald, you can't be neutral on a moving train, howard zinn, teddy roosevelt, roosevelt
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- 72 Views
- 0 Comments
Who Is Singing These Songs With Us?
DECEMBER 27, 2010 1:04PM
Topics: walt whitman, earth-a-lujah, reverend billy and the church of stop life after shopping, reverend billy, peace, global warming, earth, climate change, jesus christ, jesus, florida, trash, christmas carols, consumerism, christmas, christianity, holidays
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- 266 Views
- 1 Comments
Mark Twain Goes to the Library
DECEMBER 9, 2010 2:45PM
Topics: isaac gewirtz, souvenir catalogue, declan kiely, book remainders, humor, satire, injustice, religious twaddle, hypocrisy, racism, anti-imperialism, fountain pen, wire-rimmed eyeglasses, artifacts, visiting a museum, websurfing, roughing it, james garner, whoopie goldberg, time's arrow, star trek the next generation, jerry hardin, mark twain tonight, hal holbrook, youth v. age, portraits, photography, robert frost, walt whitman, a skeptic's progress, morgan library, samuel clemens
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- 275 Views
- 3 Comments
November 8, 1990 "6 Degrees of Separation" opens
NOVEMBER 8, 2010 9:30AM
Topics: gay/lesbian, fiction, family, belief/religion, books, cajun. cajun louisiana, sonniers, short story, louisiana, walt whitman, 6 degrees of separation
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- 373 Views
- 5 Comments
Poetry Rules. Part 2
JUNE 27, 2010 3:50PM
Topics: li-young li, emily dickinson, walt whitman, sharon olds, alison deming, simon ortiz, langston hughes, robert frost, reading poetry, poetry
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- 514 Views
- 14 Comments
Poetic Influences
MAY 6, 2010 12:02AM
Topics: so this is what you get, poetry, walt whitman, rita shibr, wakingupslowly, scarlett sumac, sagemerlin, caroline hagood, edna st. vincent millay, not just anti-war, my post is taking too loonng to write, pro-peace, def poetry - suheir hammad - what i will
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- 379 Views
- 4 Comments
#70: Sands at Seventy
DECEMBER 19, 2009 3:02AM
Topics: emotional commitment, aging, walt whitman, poetry
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- 372 Views
- 4 Comments
Meditation on Writing
NOVEMBER 30, 2009 6:39PM
Topics: walt whitman, books, writing
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- 3518 Views
- 4 Comments
Thoughts on Walt Whitman
NOVEMBER 30, 2009 10:59AM
Topics: books, walt whitman, poetry
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