Last night I dreamed that Andrew told me that we're already failing the revival of this blog, so I flew to Dublin with the intention of punching him in the face for being a liar.
Anyway, I thought I'd share a fun poem with you. It's by Paul Laurence Dunbar, who was a popular African American poet back in his day. The poem is written in dialect, and therefore Herbert Martin reads it way better than I ever could. (You can listen to this and a wide selection of Dunbar's poems at dunbarsite.org.)
"A Negro Love Song"
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I am going to have "Cos I do!" stuck in my head for the next week. Some of it (An Ante-Bellum Sermon) seems like you're reading 15th-century English writers or something, especially in the way it forces you to speak it aloud if you want the meaning of it. Where did you find this?
My poetry prof emails us poetry each day. Basically a poet-a-day sort of thing. Or two poets a day, depending.
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