Lite Verse with No Cholesterol or Trans Fat, by 33 Already Dead Poets, 6...
~~~~~ The following poems are selected from the 1920 collection The Book of Humorous Verse, edited by Carolyn Wells (1862-1942). Each poet is represented only once, and in alphabetical order....
View ArticleThe Long Abandon’d Hill, for Frank Wilson as he retires
~~~~~ It is not quite right to say that Frank Wilson, books editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, is retiring today. It is better to say that The Inquirer is retiring. In parts of the world where...
View ArticleTen Thousand Thanks
_____ Thank you ten thousand times. Just a few hours ago, the most popular post yet here at Clattery MacHinery on Poetry, Alley War Poetry, received its 10,000th hit. That’s a lot of readers...
View Article. . . and don’t forget these Christmas poems
Anonymous At the Last The stream is calmest when it nears the tide, And flowers are sweetest at eventide, The birds most musical at close of day, The...
View ArticleAll-World Wrestling Poetry—a collection of 52 wrestling poems
_____ _____ The poems in this collection are on wrestling—the collegiate and amateur styles—but also how we wrestle with life, where we find wrestling in our lives, plus our gods, prophets...
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