Lord Maroon Can Meow! Canst Thou?
O! The wonders of my lord Maroon do abound! He’s a walking menagerie of wondrous sounds.
Read More Lord Maroon Can Meow! Canst Thou?New Adventures in Anachronism
O! The wonders of my lord Maroon do abound! He’s a walking menagerie of wondrous sounds.
Read More Lord Maroon Can Meow! Canst Thou?The Muslim ban is not a Muslim ban.
Read More The Muslim BanI wrote this 193-word poem for my summer ESL class on phonics and accent reduction. It includes about a large number of minimal pair vocabulary words highlighting continuants and stops (esp. /s/ and /t/ endings), as well as various vowel sounds. It corresponds with Unit 10 of Judy Gilbert’s Clear Speech, 4th Edition. Enjoy, and […]
Read More Kate Cat Caught a MooseI wrote this 298-word poem for my summer ESL class on phonics and accent reduction. It includes about a dozen pairs of vocab words highlighting syllable stress of two-syllable verbs versus nouns, as well as compound nouns. It corresponds with Units 3–5 (particularly Unit 5) of Judy Gilbert’s Clear Speech, 4th Edition. Enjoy, and feel […]
Read More Bookstore Present/Baseball TryoutHere’s another poem I wrote for my ESL students. We did an activity called “Seuss Sleuths,” in which we read excerpts from a Dr. Seuss book (One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish) and I challenged them to figure out the meter, rhyme scheme, themes, and other patterns employed in the book. Each of […]
Read More Brug Thugs Fear PugsI wrote this 279-word poem for my summer ESL class on phonics and accent reduction. It includes about a dozen pairs of vocab words highlighting syllable count and long vs. short vowel sounds. The words came from the first two units of Judy Gilbert’s Clear Speech, 4th Edition. Enjoy, and feel free to share and reuse […]
Read More I Hope to See the ForestI want to be an insular community. Like, I want every man to be an island. Do you know what I’m saying? Sometimes, what I really want is for my heart to be an enclave. That would just be really nice, you know? I haven’t read any Superman, but I think I understand the concept […]
Read More Fortress of SolicitudeYou know, I’ve always wanted to know… What would my baby look like with a Celebrity™? What would a Celebrity™ look like with my baby? What would my baby look like with a Celebrity’s Baby™? What if I had a baby with a Celebrity™? What would it look like? What if a Celebrity™ had a […]
Read More Celebrity InterventionI’ve got a new article up on http://www.rantgaming.com. It’s a reflection on what Gregory Sherl’s book of poems, The Oregon Trail is The Oregon Trail, means for the future of literature. Also, there are a lot of free poems in the article that I wrote myself. I mean, I wrote the poems myself. And the […]
Read More The Oregon Trail is…Life, Death, Love, and Dysentery