Commercial Poetry

Earl the Squirrel's Rule #52      What the word "poet" means to us can be very revealing.  And very convenient.      Pro...

John Prine      No, it's not an Oriental tourist advisory.      The cause is information overload , the constant bombardment of tr...

Earl the Squirrel's Rule #187      We know what poetry is :  speech worth retaining (even in preliterate societies).  Prose is every...

     In another thread a typical content regent intimated that great poems must be strong, compelling, assertive, imaginative, passionat...

     The song ends with "I am the intruder."       How often do we allow things--even otherwise important things--to intrude ...

     "The first time Sir Winston Churchill said 'Never before...has so much been owed by so many to so few' he was talking abou...

Earl the Squirrel's Rule #182      In a CBC Radio parody, the fuddy-duddy Duddley Do-Right has tracked his quarry, Pierre La Puc...