Tag: Walt Whitman
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* singing with jim ferris
Poet of Cripples – Jim Ferris Let me be a poet of cripples, of hollow men and boys groping to be whole, of girls limping toward womanhood and women reaching back, all slipping and falling toward the cavern we carry within, our hidden void, a place for each to become full, whole, room of our…
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* learning to Howl with Allen Ginsberg
Had to read and discuss Allen Ginsberg’s Howl this week in one of my classes. Kinda went like this: I have gone back and forth on the poem Howl since I first read it at eighteen. I shared with my classmates how I went to San Diego on spring break once and spent five days…
The Friday Influence 