Category: One-liners
Schrödinger’s Cat in the Hat
Can’t decide if you should be cute or spooky this Halloween?
Try a costume that’s two things at the same time!
Carrie Fisher calls the Poetry Crisis Line
The Poetry Crisis Line honors Carrie Fisher, who would have been 62 today, had she not drowned in moonlight, strangled by her own bra.
Kublai Khan fact-checks Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In Mr. Coleridge’s defense, the word stupa may sound illicit to anyone with even a passing familiarity with Yiddish.
In the glorious Emperor’s defense (not that he should need one), Mr. Coleridge was, in fact, high.
Happy 804th birthday to His Majesty Kublai Khan!
Hamlet calls the Poetry Crisis Line
Kermit the Frog calls the Poetry Crisis Line
Happy 40th anniversary to The Muppet Movie!
Alexander Pushkin calls the Poetry Crisis Line
Read the original (in translation) here.
Happy 200th birthday to Walt Whitman (belated)
A belated happy birthday to Walt Whitman, who turned 200 on Friday, May 31
Ezra Pound* calls the Poetry Crisis Line
*Mr. Pound’s opinions do not necessarily reflect the views of the Poetry Crisis Line. However, you can read the rest of the poem here.
Suggested by Vincent Zepp.