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

Mar 29, 2011

Boehner's Tears

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In the last two years or so, Wall Street has flicked off the American people because we on Main St. didn’t pay attention. We assumed there ...
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Mar 22, 2011

Emily Dickinson, "There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House"

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There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House by Emily Dickinson : The Poetry Foundation [poem] : Find Poems and Poets. Discover Poetry. Photo...
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Mar 18, 2011

Edward Hirsch, "Wild Gratitude"

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I cannot find Edward Hirsch's "Christopher Smart" on line, which is very puzzling. Here instead is "Wild Gratitude,"...
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Mar 15, 2011

Christopher Smart, "Jubilate Agno"

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The Clown, Georges Rouault, around 1907, D.I.A. Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, [For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry]- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, ...
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Mar 13, 2011

Edward Hirsch, "Edward Hopper and The House by the Railroad"

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Hirsch, "Edward Hopper and the House by the Railroad" I like Edward Hirsch's poem "The House by the Railroad" becaus...
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Mar 8, 2011

A Lighter "Names of Horses." Charlie Sheen. Madness and the Arts

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PA and everyone, you won't want to miss this short clip. Best horse name ever. [VIDEO] In case you're new here or have forgotten, he...
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Mar 3, 2011

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "God's Grandeur" and Kay Ryan's "Blandeur"

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Given Kay Ryan's coined word "Blandeur" as a title, I strongly suspect that she has in mind Gerard Manley Hopkins' famous ...
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