Here’s to trying to write like Shakespeare! Take a draft of cognac, and proceed with caution. (By the way, I think it’s very useful to write in rigid metrical rhythms. Free verse is so undisciplined that most of the time it’s junk. Compare writing to training for a marathon, or practicing for a piano concerto…
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Telling their Story: Help Abolish The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
“We ought to do something about North Korea,” says Jo Schmo Politician, shaking his head, and the audience murmurs in agreement. A boat of food is shipped overseas, and a defector is shipped to the States. The salve has been applied to the itch, and North Korea fades, once again, from the public consciousness. American…
MUSTACHE Questions: Gallery of Philosophers With Facial Hair
A photo gallery, hall of fame, and awards night for philosophers with fabulous facial hair.
Evensong: “On Poetry”
Poetry is a demon’s discipline, a blood sweat in a darkened cell. Letting go the rope to reach for heaven and sinking slowly down towards hell.