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

Nov 24, 2010

The Holidays with Hopkins' "The Windhover." Falcon video.

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You'll enjoy today's poem more if you permit yourself the pleasure of this falcon on film. Flying With The Birds on Devour.com The W...
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Nov 19, 2010

ROBERT MOSKOWITZ, artist, Hard Ball III, 1993

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I went to the Detroit Insitute of Arts yesterday, always a pleasant place for lunch and a stroll. But for the third time, one painting, mor...
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Nov 17, 2010

Charles Simic, "The Melon." Hay Bales.

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The Melon by Charles Simic : Poetry Magazine [poem/magazine] : Find Poems and Poets. Discover Poetry. "The Melon" by recent Poet L...
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Nov 14, 2010

Robert Frost, "After Apple Picking." November Continues.

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After Apple Picking by Robert Frost : The Poetry Foundation [poem] : Find Poems and Poets. Discover Poetry. Here’s a classic, as well as a q...
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Nov 12, 2010

November and Keats' "La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad"

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left: earth's first modest swan La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad by John Keats : The Poetry Foundation [poem] : Find Poems and Poets....
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Nov 10, 2010

Football Outside the Box, Donald Hall's "Olives"

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Speaking of military strategy (sort of, on Nov. 8) and flanks and such, in case you haven’t seen this clip of a middle school football trick...
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Nov 8, 2010

Gettysburg and "After the Wilderness" by Andrew Hudgins

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I write this from a hotel in Gettysburg, a picturesque, appealing Pennsylvania town if ever there was one. If Vonnegut is right when he says...
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Michigan, Ohio River Valley, United States
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