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Get rhymin’! Poems wanted for Garrison Keillor contest
BringMetheNews ^
| 4-2-15
| Shaymus McLaughlin
Posted on 04/06/2015 4:16:18 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
April kicks off with a day for fools, but spends the rest of its weeks celebrating meters, diction and iambic pentameters. Yes, its National Poetry Month. And as part of a celebration of the written word, Garrison Keillor is once again using his Common Good Books in St. Paul for a poetry contest. Its the third straight year, and Keillor himself is offering $5,000 in prizes three winners will get a grand apiece, and four runners-up will each get $500. The theme this year? Dear you. So the work must be a letter to a specific, living person, the rules state.
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TOPICS: Poetry
KEYWORDS: contest; garrisonkeillor; money; poetry
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To: TurboZamboni
whoever writes an ode to light rail wins.
my poem is to Jim Thompson.
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posted on
04/06/2015 4:17:36 PM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
To: TurboZamboni
Will most of them be above average?
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posted on
04/06/2015 4:20:15 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
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To: TurboZamboni
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posted on
04/06/2015 4:20:58 PM PDT
by
Texas Gal
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
04/06/2015 4:22:40 PM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
To: TurboZamboni
A poem for Garrison.
Ou Sont Les Toilettes?
I saw the deer.
The deer saw me.
I took a crap.
The deer took a pee.
From The Collections Of blueunicorn6
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posted on
04/06/2015 4:26:24 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: TurboZamboni
AH!.. Ode’s or Limericks to Zero Obama.. The first Moocher.. The White Hut.. The Executive Latrine.. The Treasonator..
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posted on
04/06/2015 4:32:56 PM PDT
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
To: TurboZamboni
That's hilarious. The Writer's Almanac is a daily feature on PBS, which I catch every now and then quite by accident.
Every single poem he reads for the day is of a type.
Let me spontaneously write one of these types right at this moment:
The park bench where the young lovers sat
was strewn with newspapers
Left by the forlorn gentleman now walking
Along the pathway toward the museum under a grey sky,
And she turned to him and said:
I wonder if he was able to read the events of the day?"
And he replied:
"Sadness and regret make one literate in matters of the heart."
And then they in unison took long, slow drags from the muse within their cigarettes.
I taught high school English for 20 years, and I write poetry myself, so I have a particular interest in Keillor and what he presents to the public as worthy.
His ability to discern poetry of merit parallels his ability to analyze the passing political scene: utter failure.
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posted on
04/06/2015 4:35:58 PM PDT
by
jobim
To: TurboZamboni; MeshugeMikey; Slings and Arrows; GeronL; Daffynition
The theme this year? Dear you. So the work must be a letter to a specific, living person, the rules state. DRAT! I drew "Mr. Orange" in this poetry contest.
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posted on
04/06/2015 4:36:25 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(If Indiana's 'treatment' of homosexuals matters, why doesn't Cuba's treatment of homosexuals matter?)
To: TurboZamboni
Garrison, I pass
Kiss my___
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posted on
04/06/2015 4:41:55 PM PDT
by
razorback-bert
(Due to the high price of ammo, no warning shot will be fired.)
To: TurboZamboni
Once there is a man from Lake Wobegon
Who was on the radio and made me yawn
He was incredibly boring
That’s why I was snoring
He makes me puke on me lawn
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posted on
04/06/2015 4:56:49 PM PDT
by
MNDude
To: MNDude
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posted on
04/06/2015 5:01:23 PM PDT
by
bboop
(does not suffer fools gladly)
To: MNDude
From Lake Wobegon there was a Pinko...
Who’s radio comedy was stinko.
He offered a writing competition...
with rotten entries we will not mention,
I’m much rather be playing pachinko!
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posted on
04/06/2015 5:15:15 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(If Indiana's 'treatment' of homosexuals matters, why doesn't Cuba's treatment of homosexuals matter?)
To: TurboZamboni
He who writes upon these walls...
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posted on
04/06/2015 5:18:26 PM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Falcon 105)
To: TurboZamboni
English major may have wit
But Garrison Keillor is full of warm spit
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posted on
04/06/2015 5:39:28 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
04/06/2015 6:06:52 PM PDT
by
MNDude
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
04/06/2015 6:29:41 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
To: Daffynition
What’s the frequency, Gary?
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posted on
04/06/2015 6:30:32 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(If Indiana's 'treatment' of homosexuals matters, why doesn't Cuba's treatment of homosexuals matter?)
To: TurboZamboni
My goodness, is he still alive?
Needs to be in the death pool.
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posted on
04/06/2015 6:31:40 PM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
To: TurboZamboni
"You want poems I got f---ing poems."
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posted on
04/06/2015 6:32:57 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
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