Read the rest of “Epiphany” by Joanie Mackowski here.
Today’s counselor played by Catherine Zickgraf.
Isaac Asimov calls the Poetry Crisis Line
Happy 100th birthday to Isaac Asimov!
Bei Dao calls the Poetry Crisis Line
Epic Cat Battles of Hissery: The Minister’s Cat vs Schrödinger’s Cat–Round 2
Read Round 1 here.
If The Who were Who
Poets answer an age-old question: Why did the chicken cross the road? (part 4)
Gil Scott-Heron
The chicken crossing will not be televised
It will not be sponsored by Colonel Sanders or
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From Chik-Fil-A
The chicken crossing will not be televised
(It might be on YouTube.)
- e. cummings
anychick lived in a pretty how coop
and str e t c h e d
her chicken legs(white feathers
furled in the even
ing breeze)across
the sunset road because(pick peck)she
wanted(peck)to see
the
Capital(they didn’t
have those where she was from).
Ogden Nash calls the Poetry Crisis Line
If All Poems Were Limericks: Porphyria’s Lover
Porphyria loved me, and yet
A moment was all I could get,
So I strangled her there
With her own yellow hair–
I do hope she isn’t upset!
John Milton calls the Poetry Crisis Line
Happy 411th birthday to John Milton!
Bukowski and Neruda walk into a bar
Mr. Neruda’s lines are from The Book of Questions, by Pablo Neruda.
Mr. Bukowski’s line is from When Harry Met Sally, by Nora Ephron