Sunday, December 20, 2015

From the P&PC Vault: Getting Ready for Christmas—An Advent Calendar from Hallmark

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It's not the first poem that P&PC ever encountered—that distinction probably goes to the quirky " I went to the animal fair ...
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Saturday, December 19, 2015

From the P&PC Vault: Saint Nick and the Poetry of Santa's Ring Toss

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Nothing dogs the Christmas season at P&PC so much as the clash between the holiday’s commercial and noncommercial aspects—between sho...
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Thursday, December 10, 2015

"When you read page 73, think of me": Robert Frost on The Golden Girls (Season 6, Episode 15 [January 19, 1991])

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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Rhymes, Jingles, and Little Poems: The World War II Rumor Project Collection in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress

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"Rumor," wrote Shakespeare in Henry IV, Part 2 , "is a pipe / Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures / And of so easy ...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

P&PC in Beantown

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P&PC is thrilled to be heading to Boston tomorrow for a busy four days at Framingham State University and the Modernist Studies Assoc...
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Thursday, November 12, 2015

"Now You're Gonna Hear Some Real Talkin": Lord Tennyson and the Poetry of Our Gang (from "Two Too Young" [1936])

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Thursday, November 5, 2015

The Poetry of Dave the Potter

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If P&PC has seemed a bit distant of late, well, that's because it's true. We admit it. We've been negligent, distracted, ...