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POEM FOR TODAY: Earle Birney is one of the major poets in Canadian Literature, and Canadianists all know this poem. Birney wrote a great deal – but not too much for his own good. His work ranges from technically masterful t
POEM FOR TODAY: I persist with Hugh McDiarmid, writing here in a traditional lyric mode. I was attracted by this poem by the clanging Scots of the opening line, though I could hardly understand a word of it. In fact, deciph
POEM FOR TODAY: Yesterday I described Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid as “thorny,” which is to say opinionated and argumentative. One of his books in fact, The Battle Continues (1957), is a “flyting,” defined as “a ritual, po
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POEM FOR TODAY: This poem with its provocative title is one of the outstanding works of the thorny Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid (a pen name for C.M. Grieve, 1892-1978), perhaps the most important Scottish Modernist writer.
POEM FOR TODAY: I have posted a poem before by Tim DeJong. Once a graduate student at Western whom I supervised, he is now on faculty at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He is active both as a scholar and as a poet, though
POEM FOR TODAY: This is one of my favorite short lyrics, and one of the earliest I posted in these daily poems. I post it again because it has disappeared from my records and I love it so much. It comes from a series called
POEM FOR TODAY: When I was not much older than a toddler I was given a recording of this song sung by Burl Ives. It has stayed in my memory, and poking around online for the history and authorship of many popular songs, jaz
POEM FOR TODAY: I like this poem because it is the work of a female Black poet that cuts against stereotype. There is irony involved – there is still acknowledgment of typical hardships – but the emphasis falls elsewhere wi
POEM FOR TODAY: Frank O’Hara’s poem about the death of Billie Holiday reminded  me of this piece by Robert Hayden mourning the violent death of an otherwise unidentified female gospel singer. The singer’s lack of identity m
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POEM FOR TODAY: This must be one of T.S. Eliot’s least known poems, and admittedly not one of his best. I was surprised myself when I came across it again, looking for something appropriate for American Memorial Day, May 30
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POEM FOR TODAY: John Masefield was born on June 1, 1878. I had just about given up on Masefield – like most of my peers. I love “Sea Fever,” and there are a few others worth revisiting; but starting into the Collected Poems
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POEM FOR TODAY: A few may remember this poem: I posted it early on in this series of daily poems, but it escaped my efforts to save each post. Besides, it is such a remarkable piece – I know nothing else remotely like it.
POEM FOR TODAY: David Dabydeen, who was born in Guyana, is one of the more prominent English language poets who have emerged in the Caribbean region over the past half century or so. Emigration and poverty are among the maj
POEM FOR TODAY: Theodore Roethke’s voice is unmistakable, despite his many modes and verse forms. Yesterday, “The Waking.” Here, something a bit lighter.

Song For the Squeeze Box
--Theodore Roethke

It wasn't Ernest; it wa
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