POETS Day! Elizabethan Carpentry
The Elizabethan conception of poetry was tied to music more closely than ours is so in it words bent to song.
Author: Ben Sears
Tomato Jam (Extended Jam)
I had a version of this Tomato Jam recently at a boule court and mason jar glasses bistro in Idaho. It was great. Here’s a recipe…
POETS Day! “Against Romanticism” by Kingsley Amis
My son started school today, August 8. That’s absurdly early. Back in 2012 Obama’s Education Secretary Arne Duncan tried to start a conversation about extending the school year by shortening summer vacation. There were...
POETS Day! Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead
Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead is a collection of twenty poems capturing aspects of the Hawks Nest Disaster.
POETS Day! John O’Brien
John O’Brien, a pen name for Monsignor Patrick Jospeh Hartigan, was an Australian poet who tended to the needs of Catholics in New South Wales in the early twentieth century
POETS Day! Robert Frost
The Modern movement was turning toward urban. Robert Frost’s pastoral New England was, and remained, a Romantic throwback despite Modern sensibilities.
Stroganov’s Expanded Upon Beef Stroganoff
When a dish is as simple as beef Stroganoff it’s hard to sift through the claims of invention. It’s sliced beef in sour sauce.
POETS Day! Amy Clampitt
“Why wait until the middle of a cold, dark night / When everything’s a little clearer in the light of day / And we know the night is always gonna be here anyway?” So...
Getting Fries Right
These fires are so good. Every once in a while, I want them and I’m never disappointed. I have a sixteen year-old to do the messy clean up.
POETS Day! WH Auden’s “September 1, 1939”
I like it, but one of the problems of being a good poem by WH Auden is the comparisons to great poems by WH Auden.
I’m Told It’s Called Lamb Keema Curry
Lamb keema curry reminded me of something when I was a kid. The flavors are different, but we used to have ground meat over rice a lot.
POETS Day! WB Yeats’ “Easter, 1916”
Throughout Yeats’ changing tastes and experiments, there remains Yeats. The form can’t suppress his understanding.
Chicken Spiedini with Amogio Sauce
If it were up to me, we’d have pasta with a variant of tomato sauce for every meal. Instead, we have things like Chicken Spiedini
POETS Day! Translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Ovid’s Metamorphoses, an epic poem containing some two hundred and fifty plus myths, is one of the most important works to come down to us from antiquity, at least as far as we can be sure it did.
Nero Wolfe’s 45 Minute Scrambled Eggs
“Tell me forty minutes before you’re ready.” Her eyes widened. “Forty minutes?” “Yes. I knew you didn’t know.”
POETS Day! Robert Service
A lot of Robert Service’s poetry is “Casey at Bat” length. It’s long enough to tell a tale and wander off on a wistful tangent here and there but not so long as to let an audience start to ask where the story’s going
POETS Day! Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landor inspired great loyalty in those close to him and his legendary temper caused those not close to sue him, often.
POETS Day! Anne Sexton
Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton all spent time in McLean Hospital, a psychiatric hospital, in Massachusetts.
The Chic-faux-Lay Sandwich
I love replicating fast food at home. It’s like a game. But Chic-fil-A serves waffle fries and mandolins are so fickle.
POETS Day! Robert Lowell’s The Dolphin
I may think him a personal ass, but Robert Lowell was brilliant, among the greatest poets of his generation.
