Happy 128th birthday to César Vallejo, who did indeed die in Paris as he predicted, but on a Friday in spring rather than a Thursday in autumn as the poem suggests. So far we have not found out the weather on that date (April 15, 1938).
Happy 128th birthday to César Vallejo, who did indeed die in Paris as he predicted, but on a Friday in spring rather than a Thursday in autumn as the poem suggests. So far we have not found out the weather on that date (April 15, 1938).
Happy 98th birthday to Jack Kerouac.
The Poetry Crisis Line misses a beat.
In memory of Charles Bukowski, who passed 26 years ago today.
Read the original here.
From “The Song of Hiawatha”
Happy 213th birthday to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From “Ash Wednesday” by T. S. Eliot
We real cool. We
Flew the coop. We
All showed. We
Crossed the road. We
Ranged wide. To
The other side.
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