Monday, June 16, 2025

Poetry

The Trump-Era Boom in Erasure Poetry
How a poetic form gained new political purpose online in 2017.
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Friday, June 13, 2025

Kill Your Darlings


The title is a reference to the often-misquoted advice of Arthur Quiller-Couch, that writers must be willing to edit out their most finely written passages if they fail to serve the piece as a whole: "Murder your darlings."

The story is about the college days of some of the early members of the Beat Generation (Lucien CarrAllen GinsbergWilliam S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac), their interactions, and Carr's killing of his long-time friend David Kammerer in Riverside Park in Manhattan, New York City.

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Sunday, June 8, 2025

Alliteration

   "Claude G. Bowers, distinguished American diplomat, talking to the Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Yale said, 'The American Democracy is mobilized today to wage a war of extermination against privilege and pillage. We prime our guns against bureaucracy and plutocracy.' 'Privilege and pillage,' 'bureaucracy and plutocracy' are ringing phrases because of the alliteration."

 "The Public Speaker's Treasure Chest"
Herbert V. Prochnow
Harper and Brothers Publishers
New York 1942