Thursday, September 28, 2006

Didi Menendez's miPOradio

First is the latest podcast from Didi Menendez's post at her new blog "miPOradio Poetry": Episode 15 of The Countdown. Following this are earlier podcast feeds from The Goodnight Show.


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miPOradio Poetry: Episode 15 of The Countdown





Here are the featured poems:

A Supermarket in California by Allen Ginsberg

"Chemotherapy Omnibus" by Riley Dog

"The Bough Has Broken" by Laurel K. Dodge

"One Side of the Heart" by David Raphael Israel

"Panegyrize" by Erica W. Adams, 42 Opus

"so maybe there" by Mark Young

"Tonight I Walked Into the Sunset" by Christine Klocek-Lim

"After Meat" by Alison Stine, No Tell Motel

"Causes for Celebration" by Amy King

"The Eye" by Jill Chan


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The Goodnight Show Podcasts







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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Poetry Festivals Worldwide: This weekend, the Dodge



This Thursday, September 28th, the bi-annual Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival begins, and will last through Sunday afternoon. The organizers have planned a star-studded line-up of poets for 20,000 poetry fans, music, educational programs, food, the works, all for a bargain price of about $1 Million (to the foundation--tickets are less). It will be held at Waterloo Village in Byram Township in New Jersey.

Here is the detailed program, in pdf:

Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival Program

Here is the weekend weather in Stanhope NJ:

Weather.com: Stanhope

And here is the web site of the foundation:

The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation


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Poetry Festivals Worldwide


(The Hay)


Poetry festivals sponsored by good organizations take place around the world throughout the year, especially spring and fall. Below is a list of some of them. If you know any of them that are missing, please let me know.




            Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
            Austin International Poetry Festival
            Beall Poetry Festival
            Belfast Poetry Festival
            Berkeley Poetry Festival
            Burning Word Festival
            Carrboro Poetry Festival
            The Chicago Poetry Fest
            The Cork International Poetry Festival
            Dancing Poetry Festival
            Denver Poetry Festival
            Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival
            Edmonton Poetry Festival
            The Guardian Hay Festival
            Hay Fringe Festival
            The International Poetry Festival of Medellín
            Jerusalem Poetry Festival: One Square Meter
            Kwani? Lit Fest Blog
            Ledbury Poetry Festival
            Los Angeles Poetry Festival and Noir Corridor
            Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!
            Manchester Poetry Festival
            Massachusetts Poetry Festival
            Newburyport Literary Festival
            North Carolina Festival of the Book
            Overload Poetry Festival
            Palm Beach Poetry Festival
            Poetry Africa
            Poetry Can
            The Poetry Now Festival
            Portland Library Poetry Festival
            Rotterdam International Poetry Festival
            Sarah Lawrence Festival
            Saratoga Poetry Festival
            Seacoast Poetry & Jazz Festival
            Seattle Poetry Festival
            Silverton Poetry Festival
            Skagit River Poetry Project
            Sparrows Poetry Festival
            StAnza
            Trois-Rivières International Festival of Poetry
            Tucson Poetry Festival
            WA Spring Poetry Festival
            Wisconsin Book Festival


(Overload)





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Monday, September 25, 2006

Punky Dunk and the Spotted Pup


PUNKY DUNK AND
THE SPOTTED PUP



THIS LITTLE STORY IS TOLD
AND THE LITTLE PICTURES
WERE DRAWN FOR A GOOD
LITTLE CHILD NAMED



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Published in the Shop of
P.F. VOLLAND & CO.
CHICAGO

COPYRIGHT, 1912,
P. F. VOLLAND & CO.,
CHICAGO, U. S. A.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


Author Anonymous


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            Punky Dunk on a day in the middle of May
            Looked around like a wise little cat,
            And he said with surprise: "Can I trust my own eyes?
            Well, what do you know about that?"


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            For a wagon of blue, with a man in blue, too,
            At the sidewalk was just backing up.
            And the man brought a crate that was heavy of weight
            And inside was a gay spotted pup.


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            Now Punky felt hurt as he gazed very pert
            At the gay spotted pup in the box,
            For the pup was all white, save for spots black as night
            On his back and his tail, ears and sox.


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            "Meow!" said the cat, "That pup is too fat
            To run or to climb up a tree.
            The baby won't like that gay spotted tike
            As well as I know he likes me."


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            Punky said: "He may run, but he won't be much fun,
            He may set, or may bark, or may point."
            You see, Punky's heart was beginning to smart
            And his nose was put clear out of joint.


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            The pup was let out, and he ran all about
            So happy was he to be free.
            Then Punky said: "Meow!" the dog said: "Bow-wow!"
            And Punky said: "Look out for me!"


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            He raised up his hair and tried hard to scare
            The pup, so he would run away,
            But the pup shook his head and in dog talk he said:
            "No, Punky, I've come here to stay."


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            Then Punky, quite rash, at the pup made a dash,
            But the pup stood his ground very bold.
            And Punky then stopped so quick that he dropped
            And over and over he rolled.


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            Then the pup with a bark started in for a lark
            But Punky thought he meant to fight,
            And he ran up a tree just as fast as could be
            And he stayed there until it was night.


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            Punky Dunk has made up with the gay spotted pup
            And with Baby they play every day.
            Don't you think, little friends, that this little tale ends
            In the very best kind of way?


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Sunday, September 24, 2006

Verse Libromancy updated: poetry (with love) from the Cosmos to you

You can have a "Verse Libromancy" button at the top of your sidebar, like mine to the right. Each time you click it, you will be sent to any one of 554 sites that publish poetry. It's like walking in a library, and a poetry periodical, selected by the Cosmos just for you, falls off the shelf to your feet.







I just removed 10 poetry sites that are no longer on the web, added 10 others (per chance only), and updated numerous URLs that changed.

Easy instructions on how to install a "Verse Libromancy" button onto your blog or web site, are posted at Bud Bloom Poetry, in the July 2nd entry here:

Verse Libromancy.


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The Babes in the Woods: a Randolph Caldecott Picture Book


Printed in Great Britain




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author anonymous


THE BABES
IN THE WOOD


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The Babes in the Woods








        Now ponder well, you parents deare,
            These wordes which I shall write;
        A doleful story you shall heare,
            In time brought forth to light.

        A gentleman of good account
            In Norfolke dwelt of late.
        Who did in honour far surmount
            Most men of his estate.

        Sore sicke he was, and like to dye,
            No helpe his life could save;
        His wife by him as sicke did lye,
            And both possest one grave.





        No love between these two was lost,
            Each was to other kinde;
        In love they liv'd, in love they dyed,
            And left two babes behinde:

        The one a fine and pretty boy,
            Not passing three yeares olde;
        The other a girl more young than he
            And fram'd in beautye's molde.

        The father left his little son,
            As plainlye doth appeare,
        When he to perfect age should come
            Three hundred poundes a yeare.

        And to his little daughter Jane
            Five hundred poundes in gold,
        To be paid downe on marriage-day,
            Which might not be controll'd:





        But if the children chanced to dye,
            Ere they to age should come,
        Their uncle should possesse their wealth;
            For so the wille did run.





        "Now, brother," said the dying man,
            "Look to my children deare;
        Be good unto my boy and girl,
            No friendes else have they here:

        "To God and you I do commend
            My children deare this daye;
        But little while be sure we have
            Within this world to staye.

        "You must be father and mother both,
            And uncle all in one;
        God knowes what will become of them,
            When I am dead and gone."





        With that bespake their mother deare:
            "O brother kinde," quoth shee,
        You are the man must bring our babes
            To wealth or miserie:







        "And if you keep them carefully,
            Then God will you reward;
        But if you otherwise should deal,
            God will your deedes regard."





        With lippes as cold as any stone.
            They kist the children small:
        'God bless you both, my children deare;'
            With that the teares did fall.







        These speeches then their brother spake
            To this sicke couple there:
        "The keeping of your little ones,
            Sweet sister, do not feare:

        "God never prosper me nor mine,
            Nor aught else that I have,
        If I do wrong your children deare,
            When you are layd in grave."







        The parents being dead and gone,
            The children home he takes,
        And bringes them straite unto his house,
            Where much of them he makes.







        He had not kept these pretty babes
            A twelvemonth and a daye,
        But, for their wealth, he did devise
            To make them both awaye.

        He bargain'd with two ruffians strong,
            Which were of furious mood,
        That they should take the children young,
            And slaye them in a wood.





        He told his wife an artful tale,
            He would the children send
        To be brought up in faire London,
            With one that was his friend.





        Away then went those pretty babes,
            Rejoycing at that tide,
        Rejoycing with a merry minde,
            They should on cock-horse ride.







        They prate and prattle pleasantly
            As they rode on the waye,
        To those that should their butchers be,
            And work their lives' decaye:

        So that the pretty speeche they had,
            Made murderers' heart relent:
        And they that undertooke the deed,
            Full sore did now repent.

        Yet one of them, more hard of heart,
            Did vow to do his charge,
        Because the wretch, that hired him,
            Had paid him very large.





        The other would not agree thereto,
            So here they fell to strife;
        With one another they did fight,
            About the children's life:





        And he that was of mildest mood,
            Did slaye the other there,
        Within an unfrequented wood,
            Where babes did quake for feare!







        He took the children by the hand,
            While teares stood in their eye,
        And bade them come and go with him,
            And look they did not crye:

        And two long miles he ledd them on,
            While they for food complaine:
        "Stay here," quoth he, "I'll bring ye bread,
            When I come back againe."





        These prettye babes, with hand in hand,
            Went wandering up and downe;





        But never more they sawe the man
        Approaching from the town.







        Their prettye lippes with blackberries
            Were all besmear'd and dyed;
        And when they sawe the darksome night,
            They sat them downe and cryed.





        Thus wandered these two prettye babes,
            Till death did end their grief;
        In one another's armes they dyed,
            As babes wanting relief.

        No burial these prettye babes
            Of any man receives,





        Till Robin-redbreast painfully
            Did cover them with leaves.






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Thursday, September 21, 2006

Green Grape Cakes




A compilation of the tongue twisters of verse, in alphabetical order.


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All I want is a proper cup of coffee
Made in a proper copper coffee pot.
You can believe it or not,
But I just want a cup of coffee
In a proper coffee pot.
Tin coffee pots
Or iron coffee pots
Are of no use to me.
If I can't have
A proper cup of coffee
In a proper copper coffee pot,
I'll have a cup of tea!


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Amidst the mists and coldest frosts,
with stoutest wrists and loudest boasts,
he thrusts his fist against the posts
and still insists he sees the ghosts.


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As he gobbled the cakes on his plate,
the greedy ape said as he ate,
the greener green grapes are,
the keener keen apes are
to gobble green grape cakes,
they're great!

(from Dr. Seuss's O Say Can You Say?)


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Betty Botter had some butter,
"But," she said, "this butter's bitter.
If I bake this bitter butter,
it would make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter
that would make my batter better."

So she bought a bit of butter,
better than her bitter butter,
and she baked it in her batter,
and the batter was not bitter.
So 'twas better Betty Botter
bought a bit of better butter.


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Big black bugs bleed blue black blood
but baby black bugs bleed blue blood.


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A bitter biting bittern
Bit a better brother bittern,
And the bitter better bittern
Bit the bitter biter back.
And the bitter bittern, bitten,
By the better bitten bittern,
Said: "I'm a bitter biter bit, alack!"


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Bobby Bippy bought a bat.
Bobby Bippy bought a ball.
With his bat Bob banged the ball
Banged it bump against the wall
But so boldly Bobby banged it
That he burst his rubber ball
""Boo!"" cried Bobby
Bad luck ball
Bad luck Bobby, bad luck ball
Now to drown his many troubles
Bobby Bippy's blowing bubbles.

(from mid-Willamette Valley theater)


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The bottle of perfume that Willy sent
was highly displeasing to Millicent.
Her thanks were so cold
that they quarreled, I'm told
o'er that silly scent Willy sent Millicent.


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But a harder thing still to do.

What a to do to die today
At a quarter or two to two.
A terrible difficult thing to say
But a harder thing still to do.
The dragon will come at the beat of the drum
With a rat-a-tat-tat a-tat-tat a-tat-to
At a quarter or two to two today,
At a quarter or two to two.

(from a college drama class)


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Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager
imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?


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Come, come,
Stay calm, stay calm,
No need for alarm,
It only hums,
It doesn't harm.


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Denise sees the fleece,
Denise sees the fleas.
At least Denise could sneeze
and feed and freeze the fleas.


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Did Dick Pickens prick his pinkie picking cheap cling peaches
in an inch of Pinch or framing his famed French finch photos?


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Dr. Johnson and Mr. Johnson, after great consideration,
came to the conclusion that the Indian nation beyond the Indian Ocean
is back in education because the chief occupation is cultivation.


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Federal Express is now called FedEx.
When I retire I'll be a FedEx ex.
But if I'm an officer when I retire, I'll be an ex Fedex Exec.
Then after a divorce, my ex-wife will be an ex FedEx exec's ex.
If I rejoin FedEx in time, I'd be an ex ex FedEx exec.
When we remarry, my wife will be an ex ex FedEx exec's ex.


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A flea and a fly flew up in a flue.
Said the flea, "Let us fly!"
Said the fly, "Let us flee!"
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.


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Fresh fried fish,
Fish fresh fried,
Fried fish fresh,
Fish fried fresh.


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Give me the gift of a grip-top sock,
A clip drape shipshape tip top sock.
Not your spinslick slapstick slipshod stock,
But a plastic, elastic grip-top sock.
None of your fantastic slack swap slop
From a slap dash flash cash haberdash shop.
Not a knick knack knitlock knockneed knickerbocker sock
With a mock-shot blob-mottled trick-ticker top clock.
Not a supersheet seersucker rucksack sock,
Not a spot-speckled frog-freckled cheap sheik's sock
Off a hodge-podge moss-blotched scotch-botched block.
Nothing slipshod drip drop flip flop or glip glop
Tip me to a tip top grip top sock.

(articulation warmup for actors)


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How many berries could a bare berry carry,
if a bare berry could carry berries?
Well they can't carry berries
(which could make you very wary)
but a bare berry carried is more scary!


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How many boards
Could the Mongols hoard
If the Mongol hoards got bored?

(from the comic Calvin & Hobbes, by Bill Waterson)


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How many cans can a cannibal nibble
if a cannibal can nibble cans?
As many cans as a cannibal can nibble
if a cannibal can nibble cans.


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How many cookies could a good cook cook
If a good cook could cook cookies?
A good cook could cook as much cookies
as a good cook who could cook cookies.


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How many sheets could a sheet slitter slit
if a sheet slitter could slit sheets?


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How much caramel can a canny canonball cram in a camel
if a canny canonball can cram caramel in a camel?


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How much dew does a dewdrop drop
If dewdrops do drop dew?
They do drop, they do
As do dewdrops drop
If dewdrops do drop dew.



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How much ground would a groundhog hog,
if a groundhog could hog ground?
A groundhog would hog all the ground he could hog,
if a groundhog could hog ground.


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How much myrtle would a wood turtle hurdle
if a wood turtle could hurdle myrtle?
A wood turtle would hurdle as much myrtle as a wood turtle could hurdle
if a wood turtle could hurdle myrtle.


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How much wood could Chuck Woods' woodchuck chuck,
if Chuck Woods' woodchuck could and would chuck wood?

If Chuck Woods' woodchuck could and would chuck wood,
how much wood could and would Chuck Woods' woodchuck chuck?

Chuck Woods' woodchuck would chuck,
he would, as much as he could,
and chuck as much wood as any woodchuck would,
if a woodchuck could and would chuck wood.


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How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.


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I am not the pheasant plucker,
I'm the pheasant plucker's mate.
I am only plucking pheasants
'cause the pheasant plucker's running late.


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I cannot bear to see a bear
Bear down upon a hare.
When bare of hair he strips the hare,
Right there I cry, "Forbear!"


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If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker
it is slick to stick a lock upon your stock
or some joker who is slicker
is going to trick you of your liquor
if you fail to lock your liquor with a lock.


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I know a boy named Tate
who dined with his girl at eight eight.
I'm unable to state what Tate ate at eight eight
or what Tate's tête à tête ate at eight eight.


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I need not your needles, they're needless to me;
For kneading of noodles, 'twere needless, you see;
But did my neat knickers but need to be kneed,
I then should have need of your needles indeed.


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I saw a saw in Arkansas,
that would outsaw any saw I ever saw,
and if you got a saw
that will outsaw the saw I saw in Arkansas
let me see your saw.


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I saw Esau kissing Kate.
I saw Esau, he saw me,
and she saw I saw Esau.


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I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Where she sits she shines,
and where she shines she sits.


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I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit,
and on the slitted sheet I sit.


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I thought a thought.
But the thought I thought wasn't the thought
I thought I thought.


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I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish,
but if you wish the wish the witch wishes,
I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.


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I would if I could, and if I couldn't, how could I?
You couldn't, unless you could, could you?


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If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot
To talk ere the tot could totter,
Ought the Hottenton tot
Be taught to say aught, or naught,
Or what ought to be taught her?
If to hoot and to toot a Hottentot tot
Be taught by her Hottentot tutor,
Ought the tutor get hot
If the Hottentot tot
Hoot and toot at her Hottentot tutor?


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If Kantie can tie a tie and untie a tie,
why can't I tie a tie and untie a tie like Kantie can.


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If one doctor doctors another doctor, does the doctor
who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the
doctor he is doctoring doctors? Or does he doctor
the doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?


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If you can't can any candy can,
how many candy cans can a candy canner can
if he can can candy cans?


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If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker,
It's slick to stick a lock upon your stock,
Or some stickler who is slicker
Will stick you of your liquor
If you fail to lock your liquor
With a lock!


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I'm not the fig plucker,
Nor the fig plucker's son,
but I'll pluck your figs
till the fig plucker comes.


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It's not the cough that carries you off,
it's the coffin they carry you off in!


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Knife and a fork bottle and a cork
that is the way you spell New York.

Chicken in the car and the car can go,
that is the way you spell Chicago.


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A lady sees a pot-mender at work at his barrow in the street.

"Are you copper-bottoming them, my man?"
"No, I'm aluminuming 'em, Mum"


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The Leith police dismisseth us
They thought we sought to stay;
The Leith police dismisseth us
They thought we'd stay all day.
The Leith police dismisseth us,
We both sighed sighs apiece;
And the sighs that we sighed as we said goodbye
Were the size of the Leith police.


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Love's a feeling you feel when you feel
you're going to feel the feeling you've never felt before.


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Luke's duck likes lakes.
Luke Luck licks lakes.
Luke's duck licks lakes.
Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.
Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.

(from Dr. Seuss' Fox in Socks)


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Mares eat oats and does eat oats,
and little lambs eat ivy.
A Kid will eat ivy too, wouldn't you?


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Mary Mac's mother's making Mary Mac marry me.
My mother's making me marry Mary Mac.
Will I always be so Merry when Mary's taking care of me?
Will I always be so merry when I marry Mary Mac?

(from a song by Carbon Leaf)


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Mo mi mo me send me a toe,
Me me mo mi get me a mole,
Mo mi mo me send me a toe,
Fe me mo mi get me a mole,
Mister kister feet so sweet,
Mister kister where will I eat !?


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Moses supposes his toeses are roses,
but Moses supposes erroneously.
For Moses, he knowses his toeses aren't roses,
as Moses supposes his toeses to be.

(Donald O'Connor and Gene Kelly in "Singing in the rain")


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Mr. See owned a saw.
And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw.
Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw
Before Soar saw See,
Which made Soar sore.
Had Soar seen See's saw
Before See sawed Soar's seesaw,
See's saw would not have sawed
Soar's seesaw.
So See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw.
But it was sad to see Soar so sore
Just because See's saw sawed
Soar's seesaw!


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My dame hath a lame tame crane,
My dame hath a crane that is lame.


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My Friend Gladys

Oh, the sadness of her sadness when she's sad.
Oh, the gladness of her gladness when she's glad.
But the sadness of her sadness,
and the gladness of her gladness,
Are nothing like her madness when she's mad!


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Ned Nott was shot
and Sam Shott was not.
So it is better to be Shott
than Nott.
Some say Nott
was not shot.
But Shott says
he shot Nott.
Either the shot Shott shot at Nott
was not shot,
or
Nott was shot.
If the shot Shott shot shot Nott,
Nott was shot.
But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott,
then Shott was shot,
not Nott.
However,
the shot Shott shot shot not Shott
but Nott.


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Of all the felt I ever felt,
I never felt a piece of felt
which felt as fine as that felt felt,
when first I felt that felt hat's felt.


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On mules we find two legs behind
and two we find before.
We stand behind before we find
what those behind be for.


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Once upon a barren moor
There dwelt a bear, also a boar.
The bear could not bear the boar.
The boar thought the bear a bore.
At last the bear could bear no more
Of that boar that bored him on the moor,
And so one morn he bored the boar
That boar will bore the bear no more.


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One smart fellow, he felt smart.
Two smart fellows, they felt smart.
Three smart fellows, they all felt smart.


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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?


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Pick a partner and practice passing,
for if you pass proficiently,
perhaps you'll play professionally.


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Pretty Kitty Creighton had a cotton batten cat.
The cotton batten cat was bitten by a rat.
The kitten that was bitten had a button for an eye,
And biting off the button made the cotton batten fly.


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Ruby Rugby's brother bought and brought her
back some rubber baby-buggy bumpers.


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Sarah saw a shot-silk sash shop full of shot-silk sashes
as the sunshine shone on the side of the shot-silk sash shop.


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Sarah sitting in her Chevrolet,
All she does is sits and shifts,
All she does is sits and shifts.


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Say this sharply, say this sweetly,
Say this shortly, say this softly.
Say this sixteen times in succession.


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The seething seas ceaseth
and twiceth the seething seas sufficeth us.


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She saw Sherif's shoes on the sofa.
But was she so sure she saw Sherif's shoes on the sofa?



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She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure she sells seashore shells.


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She stood on the balcony
inexplicably mimicing him hiccupping,
and amicably welcoming him home.


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Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep.
The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed
shilly-shallied south.
These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack;
sheep should sleep in a shed.


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Sister Suzie sewing shirts for soldiers
Such skill as sewing shirts
Our shy young sister Suzie shows
Some soldiers send epistles
Say they'd rather sleep in thistles
Than the saucy, soft short shirts for soldiers Sister Suzie sews.


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A skunk sat on a stump
and thunk the stump stunk,
but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.


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The Smothers brothers' father's mother's brothers are
the Smothers brothers' mother's father's other brothers.


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Suddenly swerving, seven small swans
Swam silently southward,
Seeing six swift sailboats
Sailing sedately seaward.


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"Surely Sylvia swims!" shrieked Sammy, surprised.
"Someone should show Sylvia some strokes so she shall not sink."


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Susan shineth shoes and socks;
socks and shoes shines Susan.
She ceased shining shoes and socks,
for shoes and socks shock Susan.


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Swan swam over the sea,
Swim, swan, swim!
Swan swam back again
Well swum, swan!


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Theophiles Thistle, the successful thistle-sifter,
in sifting a sieve full of un-sifted thistles,
thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.

Now, if Theophiles Thistle, the successful thistle-sifter,
in sifting a sieve full of un-sifted thistles,
thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb,
see that thou, in sifting a sieve full of un-sifted thistles,
thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb.

Success to the successful thistle-sifter!


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There once was a man who had a sister, his name was Mr. Fister. Mr. Fister's sister sold sea shells by the sea shore. Mr. Fister didn't sell sea shells, he sold silk sheets. Mr. Fister told his sister that he sold six silk sheets to six shieks. The sister of Mr. Fister said I sold six shells to six shieks too!


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There was a young fisher named Fischer
Who fished for a fish in a fissure.
The fish with a grin,
Pulled the fisherman in;
Now they're fishing the fissure for Fischer.


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They have left the thriftshop,
and lost both their theatre tickets
and the volume of valuable licenses
and coupons for free theatrical frills and thrills.


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Three gray geese in the green grass grazing.
Gray were the geese and green was the grass.


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Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze.
That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

(from Fox in Sox by Dr. Seuss)


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A tidy tiger tied a tie tighter to tidy her tiny tail
On two thousand acres, too tangled for tilling,
Where thousands of thorn trees grew thrifty and thrilling,
Theophilus Twistle, less thrifty than some,
Thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb!


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To begin to toboggan first, buy a toboggan.
But do not buy too big a toboggan!
Too big a toboggan is too big a toboggan
to buy to begin to toboggan.


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A tree toad loved a she-toad
Who lived up in a tree.
He was a two-toed tree toad
But a three-toed toad was she.
The two-toed tree toad tried to win
The three-toed she-toad's heart,
For the two-toed tree toad loved the ground
That the three-toed tree toad trod.
But the two-toed tree toad tried in vain.
He couldn't please her whim.
From her tree toad bower
With her three-toed power
The she-toad vetoed him.


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A Tudor who tooted a flute
tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to their tutor,
"Is it harder to toot
or to tutor two tooters to toot?"


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A twister of twists once twisted a twist;
A twist that he twisted was a three-twisted twist;
If in twisting a twist one twist should untwist,
The untwisted twist would untwist the twist.


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What a shame such a shapely sash
should such shabby stitches show.


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When a twister a-twisting will twist him a twist,
For the twisting of his twist, he three twines doth intwist;
But if one of the twines of the twist do untwist,
The twine that untwisteth untwisteth the twist.

Untwirling the twine that untwisteth between,
He twirls, with his twister, the two in a twine;
Then twice having twisted the twines of the twine,
He twitcheth the twice he had twined in twain.

The twain that in twining before in the twine,
As twines were intwisted he now doth untwine;
Twist the twain inter-twisting a twine more between,
He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine.


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When does the wristwatch strap shop shut?
Does the wristwatch strap shop shut soon?
Which wristwatch straps are Swiss wristwatch straps?


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Whether the weather be fine
or whether the weather be not.
Whether the weather be cold
or whether the weather be hot.
We'll weather the weather
whether we like it or not.


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Why do you cry, Willy?
Why do you cry?
Why, Willy?
Why, Willy?
Why, Willy? Why?


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Wun-wun was a racehorse.
Tu-tu was one, too.
When Wun-wun won one race,
Tu-tu won one, too.


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Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Spread it thick, say it quick!
Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Spread it thicker, say it quicker!
Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Don't eat with your mouth full!


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You know New York.
You need New York.
You know you need unique New York.


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You've no need to light a night-light
On a light night like tonight,
For a night-light's light's a slight light,
And tonight's a night that's light.
When a night's light, like tonight's light,
It is really not quite right
To light night-lights with their slight lights
On a light night like tonight.


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Thanks to:

The Tongue Twister Data Base
www.uebersetzung.at
Ralph's Tongue Twisters


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Monday, September 18, 2006

By what act or department of Congress?

Below is the news release dated today from the Poetry Foundation here:

Foundation Announcements

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September 18, 2006
Media Contact: Anne Halsey (312) 799.8016; ahalsey@poetryfoundation.org


Poetry Foundation to Name First Children's Poet Laureate

$25,000 lifetime achievement award honors poetry written for children



CHICAGO--The Poetry Foundation will inaugurate the nation's first Children's Poet Laureate: Consultant in Children's Poetry to the Poetry Foundation, as part of the third annual Pegasus Awards ceremony in Chicago on September 27, 2006.

The Children's Poet Laureate award will be given to a living American writer in recognition of a career devoted to writing exceptional poetry for the young child. The award aims to raise the general public's awareness that children have a natural receptivity to poetry written specifically for them which, when nurtured, can grow into a lifelong love for poetry.

“Children's poetry is an underrecognized branch of the poetry world that is largely unknown to writers and readers of poetry for adults,” said John Barr, president of the Poetry Foundation. “With the Children's Poet Laureate award, the Poetry Foundation acknowledges the importance of children's poetry in the larger world of poetry.”

The Children's Poet Laureate will advise the Poetry Foundation on matters relating to children's literature and may engage in projects to help instill a love of poetry among the youngest readers. The winner will receive the Children's Poet Laureate Medallion, which includes the inscription “Permit a child to join,” taken from an Emily Dickinson poem. The length of the laureate's tenure is two years and includes a prize of $25,000. The Children's Poet Laureate will also give two major readings for children and their families, teachers, librarians, and friends over the course of the two-year tenure.

Once considered a venue from which to look nostalgically on childhood, children's poetry today has become an art form for illuminating the immediate world of the young. Today's poets are capturing children's sensibilities and experience. Generously illustrated and written with craft and wit, poetry composed for children is reaching the best-seller lists of youth literature.

The appointment of the nation's first Children's Poet Laureate will be made by the Poetry Foundation with the help of an anonymous panel of judges. The recipient of the award will be announced during the Pegasus Awards ceremony in Chicago on September 27, 2006. No applications are accepted.


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About the Pegasus Awards

The Poetry Foundation believes that targeted prizes can help recognize underappreciated accomplishments and diversify the kinds of poetry being written as well as widen the audience for the art form. With this in mind, the Poetry Foundation has established a family of prizes with an emphasis on underrecognized poets and types of poetry. Inaugurated in 2004, the Pegasus Awards honor achievements not already acknowledged by other poetry prizes.


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About the Poetry Foundation

The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine and one of the largest literary organizations in the world, exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience. The Poetry Foundation seeks to be a leader in shaping a receptive climate for poetry by developing new audiences, creating new avenues for delivery, and encouraging new kinds of poetry through innovative literary prizes and programs. For more information, please visit www.PoetryFoundation.org.


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Friday, September 15, 2006

Billy Collins: An Evening with the [former] U.S. Poet Laureate

On Sept 24 AM, I noticed the screen blacked out, and searched both video.google.com and .uctv.tv. The Billy Collins video featured in this post has been removed from the web--hopefully temporarily.



Voices

UC Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures

presents

Billy Collins

United States Poet Laureate, 2001-2003


50 min 10 sec, September 15, 2003



"U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins delights a UCSB audience with his poetry which he sees as a 'form of travel writing' with humor as 'a door into the serious.' It is a door that many thousands of readers have opened with amazement and delight."



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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Jack Kerouac, the 20th Century's Greatest Poet: One Hour of Video




Duration 7:10

Kerouac



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Duration 26:13

Copyright 1959


Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie present

The Beat Generation

(Pull My Daisy)

written and narrated by Jack Kerouac

with, among others,

Gregory Corso & Alan Ginsberg


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Duration 27:07

Jack Kerouac: Documentario





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