Banjo52

Conversation. Especially literature and language, education, football and baseball, movies, history, then and now, birds, two-lane roads. "Banjo" is a fun word, and the instrument can make fine music. But this isn't really a blog about banjos, except in the metaphorical sense of interesting sounds riding across a valley from one porch to another. Click on any photo to enlarge. Students, remember to footnote. All text and photos: © 2009-2014 Banjo52

Sep 30, 2010

Frost's "Birches." SELF-ESTEEM AND LUCKY STRIKES.

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Birches by Robert Frost : The Poetry Foundation [poem] : Find Poems and Poets. Discover Poetry. I'm back. Thanks for your patience. Left...
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Sep 28, 2010

Internet Problems

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I hope to back to full speed Friday or Saturday.  Thanks for checking. Banjo
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Sep 24, 2010

Dear Rachel Maddow, I Tried To Be Brief, But . . .

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Dear Rachel Maddow: I agree with about 90% of your positions, and I learn a lot from your show (which I tape and watch with breakfast at lea...
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Sep 22, 2010

James Tate, "A Wedding"

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Here is more of James Tate, one of those poems that's all about the unexpected "turn" toward the end. The question then become...
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Sep 21, 2010

James Tate, "The Motorcyclists"

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I was browsing at Poetry Foundation, realizing I haven't posted anything by James Tate, a significant contemporary poet. I do believe I ...
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Sep 20, 2010

DOGS AND DIGNITY

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In Chile, both man and dog seem to be having fun in these clips, and the pooch is amazing. So why don't I completely enjoy it? Am I a pa...
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Sep 17, 2010

Ohio’s State Parks. Salt Fork State Park. Richard Wilbur.

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For those who came for a poem, I must offer again Richard Wilbur's magnificent "Still, Citizen Sparrow." I cannot think of Sal...
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Michigan, Ohio River Valley, United States
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