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    • Aug 16, 2019

    Let there be LIGHT

    I'm pleased to have eight clerihews in the summer issue of LIGHT. For those who don't know, I'll let Wikipedia tell us what a clerihew...
    • Feb 1, 2018

    The Spectator

    This week I had a poem in The Spectator. Their humor contest asked for poems in the style of Gilbert & Sullivan beginning with the line,...
    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...
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