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February 8
When all the nations stand before the judgment seat and are asked to explain how they used their basic talents…the small Slovenian nation will dare without fear to present a thin book with title Prešeren’s Poems alongside the others. – Josip Stritar Don’t mess with the Slovenes when [...] October 27, 2009 …I do not want much of a present, anyway, this year. from A Birthday Present, Sylvia Plath, 1962 There’s nothing like the poetry of Sylvia Plath to brighten up a birthday celebration. [...] 7/11 would be a more appropriate day to extol the virtues of poetry, but as it is, we’ll celebrate on 7/10, the birthday of poet, journalist, and author Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who created the most venerated form of poetry in all the English language: the Clerihew. The Clerihew is a four-line verse where the end of [...] |
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