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Author Archives: ksedinger
That Old Twitchy Feeling…
…of having 50 open tabs. Yes, 50. I leave Chrome open all the time, and on the rare occasion that I do have to close it, or it closes during computer updates and restarts, I always restore to the most recent … Continue reading
National Poetry Month, day 9: Tigers!
Minimalism is sometimes best, as the world learned four years ago when a poem by a then-six-year-old took the Internet by storm. Behold this bit of poetic genius: “The Tiger”, by a kid named Nael The tiger He destroyed his … Continue reading
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National Poetry Month, day 8: A hat tip to Sheila O’Malley
Sheila O’Malley marks the occasion of Billie Holiday’s birth date with a poem by Frank O’Hara, “The Day Lady Died”. Like many of the people Sheila writes about, I know entirely too little about Mr. O’Hara, who was a prominent … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Well, I suppose that having mentioned these two songs in today’s poetry post, I have to use them here. Take it away, Mr. Denver!
National Poetry Month, day 7: On Memorizing, Mrs. Havers, and Frost on Punkins
When I was in 7th grade, my English teacher, Mrs. Havers, required us to memorize and recite a poem. That was bad enough. I’ve never really understood the pedagogical value of this exercise, but my teachers were all deeply conservative … Continue reading
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National Poetry Month, Day 6
One of the best ways to build a poetry collection is to frequent used-book sales at local libraries. You can almost always find something good at those, and for my money, the real treasure is always the really old stuff, like … Continue reading
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Tone Poem Tuesday
As noted in today’s poetry selection, Edward Elgar–once viewed as the United Kingdom’s greatest composer–has suffered mightily for almost a century after his passing, though there has been some more recent reappraisal. Elgar was seen for much of the 20th … Continue reading
National Poetry Day #5: Two by Rudyard Kipling
She-Hulk has a joke for you! With apologies to Marvel and John Byrne, I’ve stolen this joke from a postcard that I remember reading about when I was a kid, in, of all places, The Guinness Book of World Records. According to … Continue reading
Elmer Bernstein at 100
Elmer Bernstein, one of the most consistently delightful of all film composers, was born one hundred years ago today. Bernstein died in 2004, after a long and prolific life of making our cinematic world better. Here’s a sampling of his … Continue reading
National Poetry Month, day 4: Christine Turner Curtis
An odd road to this one: my last two years of college, I lived in a rented house with a roommate, and thus I was off the campus meal plan as well. This meant cooking. As a college student with … Continue reading