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Who fails to consider the/Flim and flam of the world

12 February 201024 December 2022 joannemerriam

Barack Obama’s undergraduate poetry is pretty weird, but not bad, and if nothing else better than Jimmy Carter’s. (via, which includes lots of other poems

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just watch me

12 June 200922 May 2015 joannemerriam

In a friends-locked livejournal entry from a year ago, I wrote: “I just figured out what it is I like about Barack Obama. He reminds

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We can have this national conversation about poetry and it won’t hurt a bit.

31 January 200922 May 2015 joannemerriam

Baltimore Sun interview with Elizabeth Alexander, on her inaugural poem “Praise Song for the Day.”

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Aether and Ego Aether and Ego

How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens

The Museum of All Things Awesome and that Go Boom The Museum of All Things Awesome and that Go Boom

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