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In Defense of Poetry Poetry

In Defense of Poetry

Tess Kovach May 4, 2016

Old poetry is laden with the baggage of centuries of hidden metaphor and archaic references. New poetry...

DensityDuck in reply to Philip H on Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025"Amazon Haul", actually, which is their in-house version of Alibaba -- direct-from-the-factory Chine…
Jaybird in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025California should lead the way with their HSR and show those hillbillies how to do it right! Califor…
Jaybird in reply to Philip H on Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025Here you go.
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025We have enough taxes to make this work if we'd make HC a lot more efficient. Similarly our infrastru…
LeeEsq in reply to Marchmaine on Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025Americans want first world service on third world levels of taxation. They get angry about why it is…
LeeEsq in reply to North on Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025The propaganda on what a good neighborhood even proceeds radio let alone television. When Manhattan…
Philip H in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025The DNC needs to get over itself. The JD Pritzkers of the world don’t actually need them to get elec…
Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025Lawyer types! A question! America First Legal (whomever they are) has filed a bar complaint against…
Jaybird in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025Good neighborhoods are the ones near the schools that have more than X% proficiency in math/reading.…
Jaybird in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025We talked about it a little bit last week. For what it's worth, I think that the DNC Chair has it ri…

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