Read the poem by Tristan Tzara here.
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Happy 114th birthday to Samuel Beckett
Happy 199th birthday to Charles Baudelaire!
Read “The Flawed Bell” by Baudelaire here.
693 years ago today, Petrarch had his first vision of his dream girl. So of course we’re honoring Petrarch with a Shakesperean sonnet.
Read the rest of Denise Levertov’s “Goodbye to Tolerance” here.
Happy 146th birthday to Robert Frost!
Patrick Henry’s iconic speech was 245 years ago today.
Read part 1 here.
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).