Thursday, October 8, 2009

Top 10 Roadside Rhymes: Number 1

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The Poetry & Popular Culture office has received queries, suggestions, threats, and expressions of both wonderment and dismay about how...
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Monday, October 5, 2009

Man Wanted for Using Counterfeit Bills at State Fair

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—appeared in the Statesman-Journal October 1, 2009 Why is it whenever I go to the fair with a twenty-dollar bill and lose it all at the sof...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

R.I.P. Henry Gibson (1935-2009)

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Henry Gibson (nee James Bateman in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1935) died on September 14 of cancer. An actor most recently known for the...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

From the Poetry & Popular Culture Mailbag: Gumball Poetry

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This week, Rachel Dacus writes in from the Bay Area, giving Poetry & Popular Culture a little bit of history to, uh, chew on for a whi...
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Friday, September 18, 2009

I Couldn't Make the Grade with Mister Morgan: A Ticket to Your Heart

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As far back as 1884, the Astoria Schuetzen Park in Queens was being billed as "the most beautiful in the vicinity of New York" and...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Poetry & Popular Culture Heroes: An Interview with Jim Buckmaster of Craigslist

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Poetry & Popular Culture was pleasantly surprised when it opened up the September 2009 issue of Wired magazine and discovered that a s...
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Sunday, September 6, 2009

We Can Do Better Than That

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Appeared in the Statesman-Journal on September 5, 2009 For “luxury living in the heart of Salem,” The Rivers has asked for a loan. “We des...