Poetry postings
*on AZBlog
note: all AZ captions are bits of free verse, some of them of some length; there is a Page on AZ captions here:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/the-language-of-comics/captioning/az-captions/]
…..
☛ 8/26/10: Lounges and motels:
[http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/8641.html]
AMZ, Tom Chandler, Ned Sublette
☛ 5/25/11: Double dactylic sniff:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/05/25/double-dactylic-sniff/]
☛ 10/23/11: Found poetry:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/10/23/found-poetry/]
in the Atlantic
☛ 11/3/11: David Fenton:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/11/03/david-fenton/]
my possum/raccoon song
☛ 11/17/11: Found poetry:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/11/17/found-poetry-2/]
in NYT Book Review
☛ 11/18/11: More found poetry:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/11/18/more-found-poetry/]
2 examples
☛ 12/5/11: Rudy the Christmas elf:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/12/05/rudy-the-christmas-elf/]
☛ 12/25/11: Poet among the painters:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/12/25/poet-among-the-painters/]
Frank O’Hara
☛ 1/20/12: Beatnik poetry, invented and found:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/01/20/beatnik-poetry-invented-and-found/]
☛ 3/31/12: Adrienne Rich:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/03/31/adrienne-rich/]
☛ 4/8/12: Double dactyl for Easter:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/04/08/double-dactyl-for-easter/]
☛ 12/1/12: Poetic intersection:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/12/01/poetic-intersection/]
food poetry
☛ 12/9/12: The underwear elves of 2012:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/12/09/the-underwear-elves-of-2012/]
☛ 12/10/12: Double dactyl in Dutch:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/12/10/double-dactyl-in-dutch/]
☛ 8/10/14: Yesterday’s anniversaries:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/08/10/yesterdays-anniversaries/]
Frank O’Hara
☛ 10/28/14: Drunk on words, and a lot of whiskey:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/10/28/drunk-on-words-and-a-lot-of-whiskey/]
Dylan Thomas
☛ 11/24/14: I hurt myself today:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/11/24/i-hurt-myself-today/]
Trent Reznor
☛ 12/12/14: Verbing awry:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/12/12/verbing-awry/]
1991 poem “An ordinary man in an ordinary car”
☛ 12/21/14: Snowy lanes:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/12/21/snowy-lanes/]
Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and a Zippy parody
☛ 1/15/15: Façade:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/01/15/facade/]
Edith Sitwell’s poetry
☛ 2/28/15: Poets in Their Youth:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/02/28/poets-in-their-youth/]
Eileen Simpson’s 1982 book, on John Berryman and his circle of poet friends
☛ 3/24/15: Elise Partridge:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/03/24/elise-partridge/]
one Partridge poem; death notice for her
☛ 4/15/15: A personal poemorse:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/04/15/a-personal-poemorse/]
a little poem in code
☛ 4/22/15: Poem for hot February day:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/04/22/poem-for-hot-february-day/]
with Daily Jocks photo
☛ 4/26/15: A playful poetic footnote:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/04/26/a-playful-poetic-footnote/]
the poetic form the clerihew
☛ 5/4/15: The names of birds:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/05/04/the-names-of-birds/]
a compressed double dactyl
☛ 6/28/15: Claude Funston thought …:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/06/28/claude-funston-thought/]
Lewis Carroll’s “The Walrus and the Carpenter” and a parody
☛ 7/25/15: Name rhymes:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/07/25/name-rhymes/]
schemes that rhyme personal names with other words: Cab Calloway’s “Everybody Eats at My House”, Paul Simon’s “Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover”
☛ 7/26/15: Land of 1,000 Dances:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/07/26/land-of-1000-dances/]
Wilson Pickett’s “Land of 1,000 Dances” and its rhyme scheme
☛ 8/11/15: Found poetry:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/08/11/found-poetry-3/]
in New Scientist
☛ 9/25/15: Boy in the sand:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/09/25/boy-in-the-sand/]
AZ erotic poem “Boy in the sand”
☛ 10/17/15: That’s a moray:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/10/17/thats-a-moray/]
poetic form of “That’s Amore” and “That’s a Moray”
☛ 10/18/15: Morning: monotreme, marsupial:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/10/18/morning-monotreme-marsupial/]
trochaic tetrameter; SW.SW.SW.S lines; poetic form of “Hush Little Baby”
☛ 10/29/15: To the liquor of your laughter / And the lacquer of your limbs:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/10/29/to-the-liquor-of-your-laughter-and-the-lacquer-of-your-limbs/]
Spectra poetry
☛ 11/1/15: Follow-up: Heino:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/01/follow-up-heino/]
the nursery rhyme “She’ll be coming ’round the mountain”; its German “translation” “Zu der Ponderosa reiten wir”
☛ 11/17/15: Alaskan-cod-pieces:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/17/alaskan-cod-pieces/]
the poetic form the TankaWanka
☛ 11/30/15: Rhyme or reason:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/30/rhyme-or-reason/]
the nursery rhyme “Humpty Dumpty” and its poetic form
☛ 12/31/15: The Crew with packages and boxes:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/12/31/the-crew-with-packages-and-boxes/]
prose poem, lyrical prose, long-line free verse
☛ 1/14/16: Pittman, Dickinson, and Goya:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/14/pittman-dickinson-and-goya/]
Emily Dickinson’s “After great pain, a formal feeling comes”
☛ 2/23/16: Who is Silvia?:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/02/23/who-is-silvia/]
lyrics of the song “Who is Silvia?” from The Two Gentlement of Verona; its poetic form
☛ 3/14/16: Unnerving Chicano art: Vincent Valdez:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/03/14/unnerving-chicano-art-vincent-valdez/]
music/poetry fusion of Gil Scott-Heron
☛ 3/!8/16: Morning name: Roll Over, Beethoven:
beethoven/
inconclusive remarks on the form of this Chuck Berry song
☛ 5/26/16: Thurber the illustrator:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/05/26/thurber-the-illustrator/]
Thurber illustrations for Housman’s “Oh, when I was in love with you”
☛ 6/2/16: Morning news: death of radio star:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/06/02/morning-news-death-of-radio-star/]
poetic form of “Video Killed the Radion Star”
☛ 8/25/16: Good poetic lines:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/08/25/good-poetic-lines/]
poetic lines in John Ashbery and Delmore Schwartz
☛ 8/29/16: Osmunda, Königin des Waldes:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/08/29/osmunda-konigin-des-waldes/]
Ozymandias
☛ 9/5/16: Spontaneous poetry:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/09/05/spontaneous-poetry/]
1955 poem by Frank O’Hara
☛ 9/7/16: How sweet the daphne smells:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/09/07/how-sweet-the-daphne-smells/]
Waggerl’s poem “Seiderbast”
☛ 9/9/16: Julian and Sandy:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/09/09/julian-and-sandy/]
Façade
☛ 9/22/16: Bare bear poets ion their youth:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/09/22/bare-bear-poets-in-their-youth/]
poetry of Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky
☛ 10/2/16: The old oaken desk:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/10/02/the-old-oaken-desk/]
poem “The Old Oaken Bucket”
☛ 10/16/16: Huzzah!:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/10/16/huzzah/]
Dylan’s poetry; “Like a Rolling Stone”
☛ 10/30/16: Don’t get me wrong, the sex is great:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/10/30/dont-get-me-wrong-the-sex-is-great/]
long AZ poem
☛ 10/31/16: Annals of verbing (and poetic form):
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/10/31/annals-of-verbing-and-poetic-meter/]
iambic pentameter in a line from a gay porn story
☛ 11/2/16: Giantess Jackie:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/02/giantess-jackie/]
Baudelaire’s “The Giantess”
☛ 11/2/16: Prose poem:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/02/prose-poem/]
2 prose poems by Charles Rafferty; on prose poetry and related notions
☛ 11/7/16: November 7th, in the liminal zone:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/07/november-7th-in-the-liminal-zone/]
Longfellow’s “The Children’s Hour”
☛ 11/14/16: Trisyllabic feet in tetrametrical orgy:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/14/trisyllabic-feet-in-tetrametrical-orgy/]
dactylic and anapestic tetrameter
☛ 11/17/16: Magnificat:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/17/magnificat/]
end-accented tetrameter in a burlesque version of the Magnificat
☛ 11/27/16:Face work:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/27/face-work/]
AZ playful poem “Lonely Man Shots”
☛ 12/31/16: Surrealists, but especially Jess:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/12/31/surrealists-but-especially-jess/]
poet Robert Duncan
☛ 1/2/17: Two poems:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/01/02/two-poems/]
James Galvin poem; piece of found poetry; Jimi Hendrix, T.S. Eliot
☛ 2/8/17: On the road from Frog Rock:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/08/on-the-road-from-frog-rock/]
Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”
☛ 2/21/17: Briefly: today’s metrical pleasure:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/21/briefly-todays-metrical-pleasure/]
double dactylic line
☛ 4/4/17: Quick, Bruce, the blat!:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/04/04/quick-bruce-the-blat/]
two bits of AZ free verse
☛ 4/24/17: Is that a Paschal Peep in your pouch?:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/04/24/is-that-a-paschal-peep-in-your-pouch/]
AZ parody of Isaac Watts / Lewis Carroll poetry
☛ 5/2/17: To be Young, Gay, and Chinese-American:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/02/to-be-young-gay-and-chinese-american/]
poet Chen Chen
☛ 5/17/17: Larkin and the Gray Lady, again:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/17/larkin-and-the-gray-lady-again/]
Larkin’s “This Be the Verse”
☛ 5/18/17: Complementary ignorances:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/18/complementary-ignorances/]
Anne Clark vocal version of Larkin’s “This Be the Verse”
☛ 6/13/17: Poems about sluts:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/13/poems-about-sluts/]
Tennessee Williams poem, AMZ poem
☛ 7/4/17: Fay Zwicky:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/07/04/fay-zwicky/]
Australian poet FZ and her poem in memory of Primo Levi
☛ 7/5/17: More news not for penises:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/07/05/more-news-not-for-penises/]
short AZ poem “Spurring him on”
☛ 7/26/17: I sing the body elastic:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/07/26/i-sing-the-body-elastic/]
elaborate half rhymes in Mikey Bustos’s “I Wear Speedos”
☛ 7/26/17: Electric charges:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/07/26/electric-charges/]
Whitman’s “I Sing the Body Electric” from Leaves of Grass
☛ 8/2/17: Three names:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/02/three-names/]
Lord Byron’s The Prisoner of Chillon
☛ 9/20/17: Rewind the music, cover your bones with rainbow:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/09/20/rewind-the-music-cover-your-bones-with-rainbow/]
“Remaking the Music Box” by Geoffrey Hilsabec; “Funeral Blues” by W.H. Auden; King Lear
☛ 10/25/17: Eggcornic verse:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/10/25/eggcornic-verse/]
Twitter poet Brian Bilston and a poem on eggcorns; Calvin Trillin, Deadline Poet (a book of news-related doggerel)
☛ 11/12/17: Food rebellion:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/11/12/food-rebellion/]
A.A. Milne, “Rice Pudding” from When We Were Very Young
☛ 12/18/17: The news for mammoths: toy stories:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/12/18/the-news-for-mammoths-toy-stories/]
portion of an AZ Sundance and Butch poem
☛ 12/27/17: Morning tetrameter naming:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/12/27/morning-tetrameter-naming/]
trochaic tetrameter; Pindar
☛ 1/6/18: But that’s not you nor I:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/01/06/but-thats-not-i-nor-you/]
19th-century didactic verse for children
☛ 1/6/18: This week’s terrible literary food pun:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/01/06/this-weeks-terrible-literary-food-pun/]
poets Derek Walcott, Charles Bukowski
☛ 2/11/18: Briefly: edible trochaic tetrameter:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/02/11/briefly-edible-trochaic-tetrameter/]
☛ 3/15/18: I wandered lonely as a pink cloud:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/03/15/i-wandered-lonely-as-a-pork-cloud/]
Wordsworth’s “I wandered lonely as a cloud”
☛ 3/21/18: nameless sodomites:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/03/21/nameless-sodomites/]
AZ poem “Judgment Day”
☛ 3/25/18: Haiku Robot:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/03/25/haiku-robot/]
the haiku form
☛ 3/29/18: Bits of culture:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/03/29/bits-of-culture/]
Morgan Parker’s poetry
☛ 3/31/18: Easter Anthem: the text:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/03/31/easter-anthem-the-text/]
Edward Young’s long poem Night-Thoughts
☛ 4/25/18: polydactyly:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/04/25/polydactyly/]
the Double Dactyl poetic form
☛ 4/29/18: acuminate:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/04/29/acuminate/]
Blumentod by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
☛ 4/30/18: Antimetricality:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/04/30/antimetricality/]
Stanford paper on poetics
☛ 4/30/18: Meadowland fauna!:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/04/30/meadowland-fauna/]
Double Dactyl on Bluebonnet Jackrabbit
☛ 5/1/18: Song for the day: rabbit rabbit rabbit:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/01/song-for-the-day-rabbit-rabbit-rabbit/]
4 lines of trochaic tetrameter, in two tempi
☛ 5/4/18: Then, if ever, come lusty days:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/04/then-if-ever-come-lusty-days/]
Dekker’s “The Merry Month of May”; Lowell’s “The Vision of Sir Launfal”
☛ 5/8/18: Spoiling:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/08/spoiling/]
Aimee Nezhukumatathil poem
☛ 6/1/18: Typewriter poets:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/06/01/typewriter-poets/]
Zippy with Dingburger Beatnik typewiter poets
☛ 6/3/18: Metered verse:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/06/03/metered-verse/]
☛ 6/27/18: Swiss spin-off: Wallisellen:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/06/27/swiss-spin-off-wallisellen/]
counting-out nonsense rhyme Aazelle, Bölle schelle and analysis of its form
☛ 7/31/18: BILLY COLLINS Billy Collins:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/07/31/billy-collins-billy-collins/]
Billy Collins the poet and three of his poems
☛ 8/11/18: P-alliterative and tetrametric lines:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/08/11/p-alliterative-and-tetrametric-lines/]
alliteration and front-accented (esp. trochaic) tetrameter
☛ 8/17/18: The crystal ball of cartoon understanding:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/08/17/the-crystal-ball-of-cartoon-understanding/]
4×4 rhyme for Carnation milk
☛ 8/26/18: The penis art of Dave the Robot:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/08/26/the-penis-art-of-david-the-robot/]
limericks
☛ 8/30/18: Mandarin orange at the Malamute Saloon:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/08/30/mandarin-orange-at-the-malamute-saloon/]
ballads of Robert W. Service; C.M.-like meter/rhyme scheme
☛ 9/17/18: Proustian paradise poems:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/09/17/proustian-paradise-poems/]
on a line from Proust: an Adam Giannelli villanelle, an AMZ occasional poem in free verse; on the villanelle as a poetic form
☛ 9/30/18: AZ on imperfect rhyme:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/09/30/az-on-imperfect-rhyme/]
5 papers of mine on half-rhyme and phonological similarity, especially in folk poetry of various kinds
☛ 10/1/18: Imperfect rhyme, part 2:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/10/01/imperfect-rhyme-part-2/]
inventory of postings discussing half-rhymes
☛ 10/6/18: Imperfect rhyme, part 3:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/10/06/imperfect-rhyme-part-3/]
inventory of publications citing AZ on half-rhymes
☛ 10/15/18: Fables of the trees:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/10/15/fables-of-the-trees/]
poetic form of Rush lyrics for “The Trees”
☛ 10/26/18: At duty on the moors:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/10/26/at-duty-on-the-moors/]
AZ poem as caption; Rupert Brooke poem
☛ 11/19/18: Revisiting 22: now berries and cherries:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/11/19/revisiting-22-now-with-berries-and-cherries/]
Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark”
☛ 12/2/18: A morning in the Blue Period:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/02/a-morning-in-the-blue-period/]
the amphibrach; double-amphibrach nonsense verse
☛ 12/7/18: O rosemary, my rosemary:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/07/o-rosemary-my-rosemary/]
dactyls
☛ 1/19/19: The poetry corner:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/01/19/the-poetry-corner/]
2 short AZ poems taking off on images from Facebook
☛ 1/29/19: A camelid from darkest Peru:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/01/29/a-camelid-from-darkest-peru/]
Ogden Nash light verse
☛ 2/13/19: Captain of our fairy band:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/02/13/captain-of-our-fairy-band/]
catalectic trochaic tetrameter, from me and from Puck in Midsummer Night’s Dream
☛ 2/14/19: Revisiting 25: Alligator Goodbyes, now in song:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/02/14/revisiting-25-alligator-goodbyes-now-in-song/]
one-line rhyme forms: Alligator Goodbyes, Everybody Eats, Fifty Ways
☛ 2/20/19: News for penises: notes on phallophilia:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/02/20/news-for-penises-notes-on-phallophilia/]
the phrase purple pouch thong, worked into a burlesque
☛ 4/13/19: Easter egg quotations:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/04/13/easter-egg-quotations/]
Gertrude Stein
☛ 4/21/19: Let’s have a kiki … in me:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/04/21/lets-have-a-kiki-in-me/]
dactyls
☛ 4/24/19: A Ceci disavowal:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/04/24/a-ceci-disavowal/]
Ceci poem “Babylon the Great” (and other poems); enjambment
☛ 4/28/19: All ˈlaundry ˈis a ˈblur of ˈstatic ˈcling:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/04/28/all-ˈlaundry-ˈis-a-ˈblur-of-ˈstatic-ˈcling/]
iambic pentameter
☛ 5/3/19: The hand that cradles the tree:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/05/03/the-hand-that-cradles-the-tree/]
nonsense verse; German translation “Der Jammerwoch” of “Jabberwocky”
☛ 5/29/19: On the dog food watch:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/05/29/on-the-dog-food-watch/]
dactylic tetrameter; poetic meters, syllable counts; art poetry and folk poetry
☛ 6/6/19: On the art patrol: Alice Neel, Larry Rivers:
[https://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/154869.html]
poet Frank O’Hara
☛ 6/6/19: What makes the world go ’round?:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/06/06/what-makes-the-world-go-round/]
poet Frank O’Hara; two of his poems
☛ 6/18/19: Portraits of Frank O’Hara:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/06/18/portraits-of-frank-ohara/]
more Frank O’Hara poetry
☛ 6/22/19: You shouldn’t do that:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/06/22/you-shouldnt-have-done-that/]
iambic trimeter line chide … deride … upbraid
☛ 7/4/19: Am I a bird?:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/07/04/am-i-a-bird/]
AMZ Sundance poetry
☛ 7/6/19: 4th of July displays:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/07/06/4th-of-july-displays/]
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Concord Hymn”
☛ 8/15/19: Blue and black at the Gamble Gardem:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/08/15/blue-and-black-at-the-gamble-garden/]
James Whitcomb Riley’s “Barefoot Boy”
☛ 10/11/19: The existential question:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/10/11/the-existential-question/]
Emily Dickinson “I’m Nobody”
☛ 10/19/19: Another Griffithian mantra:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/10/19/another-griffithian-mantra/]
trochaic tetrameter lines
☛ 12/15/19: The images quilt:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/12/15/the-images-quilt/]
Mark Strand, “Eating Poetry”
☛ 1/16/20: At the rim of the Mournful Valley, singing:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/01/16/at-the-rim-of-the-mournful-valley-singing/]
Christina Rossetti poems
☛ 1/19/20: Rent Spikes / Stoke Dread / By the Sea:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/01/19/rent-spikes-stoke-dread-by-the-sea/]
found poetry
☛ 1/22/20: Three little digits:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/01/22/three-little-digits/]
humorous verse of Ogden Nash
☛ 2/1/20: Revisiting 42: stalked by a giant anthropomorphic squirrel:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/02/01/revisiting-42-stalked-by-a-giant-anthropomorphic-squirrel/]
found poetry (in comment)
☛ 2/2/02: Another Super Bowl Sunday:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/02/02/another-super-bowl-sunday/]
found poetry (in ad copy)
☛ 2/10/20: Basil Ratburn:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/02/10/basil-ratburn/]
Scots poet Robert Burns
☛ 2/20/20: love nest:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/02/20/love-nest/]
re-posting of 8/26/10 AZBlogX piece with three poems
☛ 2/21/20: Magical Mystery Crotch Rocketman:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/02/21/magical-mystery-crotch-rocketman/]
AZ poem “The Unmanning”
☛ 2/24/20: Eel-eater and his kind:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/02/24/eel-eater-and-his-kind/]
AZ poem “Eel-eater and his kind”
☛ 3/2/20: In the political news: catalectic trochaic tetrameter:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/03/02/in-the-political-news-catalectic-trochaic-tetrameter/]
CTT examples
☛ 3/18/20: Jazzing goes to college:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/03/18/jazzing-goes-to-college/]
scansion of a line in a gay porn ad
☛ 4/4/20: Clouds of glory:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/04/04/clouds-of-glory/]
Wordsworth, “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”
☛ 4/10/20: Martin Van Buren, feeding nachos to a hyperactive squirrel:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/04/10/martin-van-buren-feeding-nachos-to-a-hyperactive-squirrel/]
“Twinkle, Twinkle Little Bat” from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
☛ 5/18/20: The things they touched:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/05/18/the-things-they-touched/]
Conrad Aiken’s “Music I Heard”
☛ 5/22/20: The Age of Anxiety:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/05/22/the-age-of-anxiety/]
the Auden poem
☛ 5/31/20: The death of images:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/05/31/the-death-of-images/]
Frank O’Hara’s “Lana Turner has collapsed!”; my poem “The images have died!”; take-off on “For All the Saints”
☛ 6/1/20: Aradesque?:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/06/01/aradesque/]
Frank O’Hara’s “Une Journée de Juillet”
☛ 6/4/20: I see London, I see France, I see Batman’s underpants:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/06/04/i-see-london-i-see-france-i-see-batmans-underpants/]
trochaic tetrameter in the chant
☛ 7/7/20: Navy flamingos and roseate spoonbills:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/07/07/navy-flamingos-and-roseate-spoonbills/]
dactylic tetrameter
☛ 7/12/20: Hot wings on a paper plate:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/07/12/hot-wings-on-a-paper-plate/]
Joyce Kilmer’s “Trees”; iambic and trochaic tetrameter
☛ 9/15/20: Cocktail music:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/09/15/cocktail-music/]
Longfellow’s “The Children’s Hour”
☛ 10/14/20: More onomatomania:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/10/14/more-onomatomania/]
a danceable tetrameter line
☛ 1/27/21: Fleurs des males:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2021/01/27/fleurs-des-males/]
Baudelaire’s Les fleurs du mal
☛ 2/24/21: The bristly brute:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2021/02/24/the-bristly-brute/]
the light verse form the clerihew; and a clerihew of mine
☛ 4/8/21: Beat Zippy said to Beat Griffy:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2021/04/08/beat-zippy-said-to-beat-griffy/]
Ginsberg poems
☛ 8/3/21: Twirly and girly:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2021/08/03/twirly-and-girly/]
limerick form in “Honey Bun” from South Pacific
☛ 8/5/21: The mirror of the manatee:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2021/08/05/the-mirror-of-the-manatee/]
word accent and poetic accent; double dactyl, iambic tetrameter
☛ 8/15/21: Jock Robin:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2021/08/15/jock-robin/]
the nursery rhyme “Who Killed Cock Robin?”
☛ 8/19/21: Harry’s Jockstrap:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2021/08/19/harrys-jockstrap/]
the nursery rhyme / round “Frère Jacques”
☛ 8/24/21: The Triceramisu:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2021/08/24/the-triceramisu/]
2 found poems
☛ 8/26/21: Pretty in neon pink:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2021/08/26/pretty-in-neon-pink/]
AZ poem on Pink Neon Jockstrap Man
☛ 8/26/21: Kiss my nuts, Sunny!:
AZ headline: couplet of trochaic tetrameter
☛ 8/29/21: Sweetly earnest and pleasantly gay:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2021/08/29/sweetly-earnest-and-pleasantly-gay/]
☛ 9/16/21: The pengring:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2021/09/16/the-pengring/]
poetic form: lines of trochaic tetrameter
☛ 9/24/21: He enjambed me:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2021/09/24/he-enjambed-me/]
enjambment; AZ free verse
☛ 2/3/22: Happy catamites:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2022/02/03/happy-catamites/]
AZ pedication poem; “Violate Me in Violet Time”
☛ 2/14/22: The Heinz birthday:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2022/02/14/the-heinz-birthday/]
nursery rhyme “Little Jack Horner”
☛ 2/10/22 Hustle and trick: the cruise pose:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2022/02/10/hustle-and-trick-the-cruise-pose/]
AZ free verse
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