Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Madison About You

It's no secret that folks at the P&PC home office love the language let loose by signs. We've covered the poetry of anti-Palin rallies in Alaska, driven through the jingles on Burma-Shave billboards, and counted down the top ten roadside rhymes we encountered on a road trip out West back in 2009. So here's a small gallery of the puns, witticisms, spoonerisms, and various other linguistic twists and turns on display in Madison, Wisconsin, over the past week and a half. Before you scroll down, though, check out these other links:

Call for Poems about the Wisconsin Protests
Poems about the Protest
Protest Poetry Slam
Poetry in Madison
Wisconsin Poets
Berton Braley Cyber Museum
Wisconsin, Poetry, & Animal Rights
Carl Sandburg, Badger & Socialist by Choice
Lorine Niedecker
Kenneth Patchen
Wisconsin State Ballad
Council for Wisconsin Writers
Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets
Wisconsin Book Festival
Wisconsin Center for the Book
Jawbreaker Poetry
and
"The Poetry of Revolt" by Elliott Colla