December 2011
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“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things;...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Let us devote to unselfishness the frenzy we once gave gold and underpants.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. It involves creating poetry...”
– Sarah Kay, spoken word poet
Clerihew
A clerihew is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. One of his best known is this (1905):
Sir Christopher Wren Said, “I am going to dine with some men. If anyone calls Say I am designing St. Paul’s.”
A clerihew has the following properties:
It is biographical and usually whimsical, showing the subject...
Books
I’m hopelessly, helplessly addicted to them. All of them. I don’t discriminate. Nonfiction, fiction. Fantasy, sci-fi. Anthologies, biographies. Handmade DIY books with the stitching coming undone. Cookbooks, lookbooks. Encyclopedias, dictionaries. Strictly picture books, art books, pop-up books, kid’s books. Books on dinosaurs, Tolkien, nebulas, Orson Welles or rock ‘n...
