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« Crimson columnist plagiarizes Slate? | Main | Remapping your brain » Friday, October 27, 2006What rhymes with Mayo?I was just making some rounds on the Web and landed on the website of the Poetry Foundation, where I found a fun widgit called the Poetry Tool. Among other things, it allows you to search for a poem by occasion. For instance, I clicked on Halloween, it being nigh upon us, and the Tool came back with 22 selected poems, from Donne's The Apparition to Poe's The Raven. The list of occasions is impressive -- it's about as comprehensive as your average Hallmark aisle: there are poems for graduations, funerals, farewells, anniversaries. Need a poem to declaim next Labor Day? Here are 12. There's even a listing for Cinco de Mayo -- though when I clicked on it, I found there were no poems listed. Note to struggling poets everywhere: What the world needs is a good poem about the fifth of May. Posted by John Swansburg at 11:10 AM
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