Trump resigns; squeezed out of White House
Although I wouldn’t really mind if Donald woke up one morning as a shrunken head and a plastic munchkin trapped in a bag made in China, hence forcing him to resign, it’s only an April
[ Read More ]Street and Smith’s is back and so is Bill Pruitt with “Pennant Race 18: Curses Laid and Lifted”
Last year in Make Predictions. Win cash. we offered 100 dollars to the reader who could most accurately predict the results of the 2017 baseball season. Our friend and contributor Bill
[ Read More ]Impromptu poetry slam at Lux Lounge
As we have happily gained new readers and as the archives are filling up, from time to time we reach back into Talker past. (BELOW) Coming up on two years now, we went to Lux Lounge for an
[ Read More ]Fred DouglasS gets his due
Rochester’s Frederick Douglass has been making the news lately. First, President Trump suggested that Douglass might still be alive. While more fake news than not, the suggestion became the
[ Read More ]Says who you can’t get rich being a writer.
In Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism to reprint “Imperium in Imperio: Sutton Griggs’s Imagined War of 1898”, we explained how a fine academic journal was kindly reprinting our article on the
[ Read More ]Trump is Perverse, Fight in Verse
In today’s New York Times, Nicholas Kristoff announced the winners of his Donald Trump Poetry Contest. Talker has been accumulating our own share of Trump poems by Rochester poets. Like
[ Read More ]“Yes, Donald!” by John Roche
You heard from John Roche, RIT professor and poet, right before the election. Then, John hoped his Trump poem series would mercifully come to an end. Alas, not yet. Yes, Donald! You are
[ Read More ]“45” by Frank Judge
Today, Frank Judge, poet, publisher, translator, journalist, film critic, teacher, arts administrator and host of the monthly Rochester Poets reading series offers “45,” his
[ Read More ]Poet’s Page Prospering
On Monday, in an Invitation to Equal Grounds and more, Bart White invited us to a celebration of poetry at Equal Grounds Café on South Avenue Saturday December 10th. In addition (below), Bart
[ Read More ]Invitation to Equal Grounds and more from Just Poet Bart White. And “Wait and Watch.”
Invitation to readers Hello! I’d like to invite readers of Talker to a poetry bash Saturday, December 10, at Equal Grounds in the South Wedge. I’m Bart White and I’m part of a beautiful community
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