Thursday, August 19, 2010

Small Business Profile: Personalized Poem Service in Downtown Portland

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Nearly two years ago, P&PC remembered the entrepreneurial efforts of minister and poet Carl Wilson—a.k.a. Tramp Star and Curly Shingles...
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Thursday, August 12, 2010

Poetry & the Movies: The Hot Tub Rhyme Machine

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Regular P&PC readers might have surmised by now that someone in the P&PC office has an abiding interest in Hollywood's ongoing...
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Herman Munster, Pragmatic Beatnik: A Guest Posting by Angela Sorby

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A while back, one of P&PC's summer research interns happened upon the following choice clip from the popular 1960s CBS TV show The M...
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Be Kind to Animals: Bookmarks, George Comings & Barry the St. Bernard

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George Comings (pictured here) was born in Vermont in 1848, one year before John Muir's family would move to the U.S. and start Founta...
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Monday, July 19, 2010

Just What Poetry's Spin Doctor Ordered: A Review of The Poetry Foundation's New iPhone Application

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The P&PC Office has just downloaded the Poetry Foundation's cool iPhone app , and we love it. In the Foundation's words, the ...
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Sunday, June 27, 2010

Ernie Kovacs as Percy Dovetonsils, Poet Laureate (circa 1955)

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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

The Book of the Undead, Part Two: Ce Rosenow Reviews Ryan Mecum's Vampire Haiku

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This past April, P&PC turned to haiku expert Ce Rosenow to get her take on Ryan Mecum's 2008 collection Zombie Haiku . Now—and j...