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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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Poetry

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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