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Robert Schechter

Children's Poetry, Light Verse, Translations

Three Things (poem by Baltasar de Alcázar) — TWO Translations!

Sep 15, 2017

Three Things (poem by Baltasar de Alcázar) — TWO Translations!

Baltasar de Alcázar (1530−1606) is one of the few poets of his day who consistently allowed himself to be funny. He is sometimes called the “gastronomic poet” because he often wrote about food and drink. Here is my translation of his most famous poem, “Tres Cosas” (Three Things). The translation was originally published in the Raintown Review and later reprinted in Per Contra. It is also my honor to present to you a second translation of the same poem, this one

Sep 12, 2017

Double-Dactyl Word List

There's a light verse form known as the double-dactyl, and strict adherence to the form requires that one of the lines consist of a single word that is a double dactyl. It can be quite a challenge to come up with a word to use in that line, so a list of qualifying words often comes in handy. I put together such a list and posted it on Medium to help out my fellow light versifiers, and it's been a steady traffic draw over the last couple of years. I recently heard from Kenn

Mrs. Bond: "Come to Be Killed"

Sep 12, 2017

Mrs. Bond: "Come to Be Killed"

I came across this nursery rhyme recently while reading the The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes to my son. It's a lot of fun to read out loud, with all those "dilly dilly dilly dilly" lines. For some reason, I had never read it before. Maybe it's the kind of nursery rhyme that many publishers leave out of modern collections because it's not quite warm and fuzzy enough, so most of the time my nursery rhyme diet had been limited to Mary and her lamb, and the darkest event

Mrs. Bond: "Come to be Killed!"

Sep 9, 2017

Mrs. Bond: "Come to be Killed!"

I came across this nursery rhyme recently while reading the The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes to my son. It's a lot of fun to read out loud, with all those "dilly dilly dilly dilly" lines. For some reason, I had never read it before. Maybe it's the kind of nursery rhyme that many publishers leave out of modern collections because it's not quite warm and fuzzy enough, so most of the time my nursery rhyme diet had been limited to Mary and her lamb, and the darkest event I

Igseriousity

Sep 9, 2017

Igseriousity

Here's a children's poem of mine that appeared in the online magazine, Bumbershoot, which was brilliantly edited by Kate Bernadette Benedict. The magazine no longer publishes new issues, but all the old issues remain online and are truly worth your while to visit. You can see this poem as published in Bumbershoot by clicking here, and then start clicking around to read lots of other wonderful poems for children and others. I’M IGSERIOUS If “ignoble” means “not noble,”

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