The Virginia Quarterly Review "The Mutable Past," a memoir collected in FANTASEERS, A BOOK OF MEMORIES by Lewis Turco of growing up in the 1950s in Meriden, Connecticut, (Scotsdale AZ: Star Cloud Press, 2005).
The Tower Journal Two short stories, "The Demon in the Tree" and "The Substitute Wife," in the spring 2009 issue of Tower Journal.
The Tower Journal A story, "The Car," and two poems, "Fathers" and "Year by Year"
The Tower Journal Memoir, “Pookah, The Greatest Cat in the History of the World,” Spring-Summer 2010.
The Michigan Quarterly Review This is the first terzanelle ever published, in "The Michigan Quarterly Review" in 1965. It has been gathered in THE COLLECTED LYRICS OF LEWIS TURCO/WESLI COURT, 1953-2004 (www.StarCloudPress.com).
The Gawain Poet An essay on the putative medieval author of "Gawain and the Green Knight" in the summer 2010 issue of Per Contra.
The Black Death Bryan Bridges' interesting article on the villanelle and the terzanelle with "The Black Death" by Wesli Court as an example of the latter.
Seniority: Six Shakespearian Tailgaters This is a part of a series called "Gnomes" others of which have appeared in TRINACRIA and on the blog POETICS AND RUMINATIONS.
Reinventing the Wheel, Modern Poems in Classical Meters An essay with illustrations of poems written in classical meters together with a "Table of Meters" and "The Rules of Scansion" in the Summer 2009 issue of Trellis Magazine
Miss Pussy's Parlor Songs, Part Twenty-One, by Claudette McFang
PART TWENTY-ONE
FIRE, FIRE
"Fire, fire! I am a liar!
I am just kidding! My fly is dryer
Now that I've pissed on those I could hire,
Browbeat, batter, drag through the mire
And, as on teevee, fire! Fire!"
BOLTON
Is revolting --
I feel like bolting.
TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP
In my pup-tent here I lie
Thinking, Donald dear, of you,
And your White and slave-built House so far away,
But these tears that fill my eyes
Are attracting lots of flies
Though I try to teach my comrades to be gay.
Chorus:
TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP, the boys are marching,
Worry, Wetbacks, here we come,
And beneath our Starry Flag
We shall breathe the air again
In the genocidal land that we call home.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Didn't Georgie Boy say that?
He had a sign when he arrived
board the ship in uniform
To remind us how he had contrived
To avoid war service in the reserves
To achieve the glory he deserves.
At least The Donald didn't wear
The uniform of the private school
That he attended before his hair
Turned orange so that he'd look cool
In the fruit trees of the Caribbean --
He just repeated what he had seen,
So now he too can be a hero
Since he, like Bush, has accomplished zero.
THE GANG
Trump has a thumb up his rump;
Cohen is gnawing on a bone;
Insanity, thy name is Hannity;
Comey, your mouth is foamy, but
Stormy Daniels takes on spaniels.
DONALD'S INSULTS
"That comic thinks insults are fine.
But the only good insults are mine!"
AGENT ORANGE
Donald Trump takes Agent Orange
To promote the growth of hair,
But he wants his pride to show,
So he shaves his nubbies bare.
SAD. VERY SAD
Trump now works with Giuliani.
Sad Rudy couldn't work with Ronny.
May 15, 2018 in Accentual-syllabic verse, American History, Americana, Commentary, Current Affairs, Epigrams, Humor & Satire, Literature, Nursery Rhymes, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Satire | Permalink
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