Tag: Poetry
News Poem: ‘A Pathetic Fallacy’
The weathermen say they won’t / name hurricanes after ladies anymore ...
News Poem: ‘On CNN everything is broken’
On CNN everything is broken. / Unhooked before loss of signal / before the plastic castle and the chapel.
The massacre in iambic pentameter
David Mason, the son of Colorado natives, is a literature and creative writing professor at Colorado College and the state’s poet laureate. He grew...
Wiretap: For it, then against it; there’s a name for that...
Maybe you've wondered why certain conservatives find themselves strenuously denouncing parts of Obamacare that, in the years before they ever heard of Barack Obama, they once supported. Jonathan Chait has a theory.
Colorado Poet Laureate Mason: So what do you want me to...
Colorado College Professor Dave Mason has been the state's poet laureate for roughly two months. He is the author of the critically acclaimed verse-novel...
Seasonal poetry: “Christ Climbed Down”
The Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 satellite had just fallen back to earth. United States government officials were conducting a series of extensive nuclear weapons...