From the Mixed Up Bloggings of Annie Em

Posts Tagged ‘e.e. cummings

It MUST Be A Class Assignment

Posted by: annieem on: September 30, 2009

Suddenly, MANY dozens of people are visiting my humble blog and finding me through a search for “Debra Winger” or “Richard Gere” or “An Officer and a Gentleman” or some combination of the above (with a lovely variety of creative spellings).
This happened after I posted the e.e. cummings-like poem many moons ago, too.
I get the [...]

in Just

Posted by: annieem on: March 16, 2009

[with apologies to e.e. cummings]

in Just
finals week      when the campus is snow-
luscious the stressed out students
cry and heave     far     and    wee
and tiffanyandryan come
straggling into my office with
deadgrandmother and lostthumbdrive stories and it’s
finals week
when the campus is drunk-wonderful (on thoughts of spring break)
the joy-less
professor down the hall drones at me
far    and  wee
and brittanyandchase come stoned to [...]


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Annie Em is a professor of English who, like oodles of other academics, blogs about her work, her readings, her life. E-mail Annie at annieem [at] ymail [dot] com or leave a comment.

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