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 5, 2011

Kensington Metropark

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Tufted Titmouse Tufted Titmouse   For early November, this was a fine sunny day in the 50s at Kensington Metropark, a...
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Oct 31, 2011

Shakespeare's "That Time of Year" and Kooser's "A Letter in October"

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Blogspot is fighting me; please ignore the odd spacing. Besides, it's easier on the eyes, I guess. Here are two poems in whic...
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Oct 26, 2011

Robert Graves' "A Boy in Church" and Emily Dickinson's "Some Keep the Sabbath"

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But a dumb blast sets the trees swaying With furious zeal like madmen praying. I hardly hear the tuneful babble,     Not kn...
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Oct 24, 2011

"Thoughts on One’s Head" by William Meredith: Brain and Heart in Poetry and Politics

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Indiana University Thoughts on One’s Head by William Meredith : The Poetry Foundation Today it may seem I’m reversing myself on the ...
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Oct 22, 2011

"In Spite of Ourselves," John Prine, Iris DeMent, Steve McClain, and Michaela Terrien of Iowa

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Over the years, a few friends, knowing my musical tastes, have asked about John Prine. Were we soulmates? Fact is, I never fully connected ...
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Oct 21, 2011

Iris DeMent: In the Spirit of Hopkins?

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Some say that they're comin' back in a garden, bunch of carrots and little sweet peas. I think I'll just let the mystery be. ...
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Oct 19, 2011

"Lying in a Hammock at William Duffys Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota" by James Wright

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Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota by James Wright : The Poetry Foundation Off Indi...
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Michigan, Ohio River Valley, United States
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