Asses of Parnassus

A website devoted to epigrams, created & edited by @thatbrookeclark

[Brooke Clark @thatbrookeclark]

Thanks to @Robin_HL for sharing my poem “High Standards” (from my @FitzWhits book Urbanities) on his formal verse website. Thoughts on Callimachus & memories of old Twitter poetry wars at the link: https://t.co/gQ35MmyQOO

[Brooke Clark @thatbrookeclark]

Today at https://t.co/HZTqXW7vuq we finish off “poetry month” with one final epigram about poetry, from Clive Dennison:

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Our usual "poetry month" feature of epigrams about poets & poetry includes takes on Housman, Auden, Byron, Millay, Dante, Pound & more:
https://t.co/fTkvIYxIGE

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The Bodyssey

[Brooke Clark @thatbrookeclark]

Today, a sonnet from #SharonSvendsen - this is probably as close as #AsssesofParnassus will ever come to language/conceptual poetry, so don't miss this one:
https://t.co/FiSowhz8Mc

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Today #RobinHelwegLarsen on #RalphWilliamInge & the dangers of marrying the spirit of the age:
https://t.co/FiSowhz8Mc

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This week we featured all 2-line poems (it won't take you long to read them!):
https://t.co/FiSowhz8Mc

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This week we featured epigrams by #TereseCoe, @EdmundConti & a throwback from #DorothyParker:
https://t.co/FiSowhz8Mc

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Today, the amazing @MelissaBalmain brings #DonaldTrump & #EdithPiaf together at last:
https://t.co/FiSowhz8Mc

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#JamesHamby, with a new #TrumptyDumpty twist on @ParnassusAsses : https://t.co/49ejKKuITd

[Brooke Clark @thatbrookeclark]

Saw this book by @MiskaRantanen (@harperdesignbks) at the wonderful @BenMcNallyBooks & was reminded of a poem on the same subject by @conorpkelly:
https://t.co/iZ5dgoHV14

[Brooke Clark @thatbrookeclark]

A bit of a #Classics week: we featured #Nossis translated by @DanielGalef & #Catullus translations by #ThomasFielding & #SirWalterRaleigh:
https://t.co/FiSowhz8Mc

[Brooke Clark @thatbrookeclark]

This week at #AssesofParnassus we featured #PhilHuffy on the #Beatles and #ringostarr, @EdmundConti on fleas and #SirJohnHarington on #treason:
https://t.co/FiSowhz8Mc

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Chapbook coming from frequent @ParnassusAsses contributor @PeterVertacnik https://t.co/bn6yQgkaA5

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Today we feature another playful, slightly palindromic poem - "Affair" by @SdeSolaRodstein:
https://t.co/FiSowhz8Mc

[Brooke Clark @thatbrookeclark]

Today, #HugoJones translates #Martial's "Difficilis facilis" epigram with hints of #Hemingway & #ClaudeLeviStrauss:
https://t.co/FiSowhz8Mc

[Brooke Clark @thatbrookeclark]

Today, a #Nossis epigram to Artemis translated by @DanielGalef:
https://t.co/FiSowhz8Mc

[Brooke Clark @thatbrookeclark]

Today, George Turberville in a #Martial-esque mood (and note how he works that "pelf/self" rhyme):
https://t.co/FiSowhz8Mc

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Today, #BruceMcGuffin on one of the favourite subjects of lyric poets, the beauties of nature:
https://t.co/FiSowhz8Mc

[Brooke Clark @thatbrookeclark]

An epigram by #DavidDHorowitz that suggests I'm not the only one who thinks weather reporting has become needlessly apocalyptic:
https://t.co/FiSowhz8Mc