James K. Baxter
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“To Any Young Man Who Hears My Verses Read In A Lecture Room” by James K. Baxter
When some cheese-headed ladder-climber reads A poem of mine from the rostrum, Don’t Listen. That girl in her jersey and beads, Second row from the front, has the original nostrum I blundered through nine hundred parties and ninety-eight pubs In search of. The Words are a totem Erected long after the scholars and yobs Who’d Continue reading
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National Poetry Month 2025
I don’t remember my first poetry book. Not even the first poem I read, though I imagine both might have been something written by Shel Silverstein. I have come to believe that Silverstein’s poetry is the gateway drug for most of us. Though despite not remembering where it started, poetry has become a major part Continue reading
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