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Subject: ACADEMIA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ACADEMIC IN TRAFFIC, by LINDA BAMBER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whether the language rebellion against phallogocentrism is really
Last Line: Then they'll whirl off to their lives %like leaves; their historical lives
Subject(s): Academia; Traffic


ACADEMIC PROCESSION, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Conversant with a day no longer ours
Subject(s): Graduations & Graduates; Academia


ACADEMIC TECTONICS, by TENAYA DARLINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I used to live on the other side
Last Line: As if they came off the top of my head
Subject(s): Academia; Learning; Teaching And Teachers; Universities & Colleges


AT THE CONFERENCE ON WOMEN IN THE ACADEMY, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The young scholar, her weeping finger
Subject(s): Academia; Women; Reality


GROUCHY GOOD NIGHT TO THE ACADEMIC YEAR, by TED PAUKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Good night to the year academic
Last Line: And even some dons are quite decent - %but good night to thesession, good night
Subject(s): Academia


MR. ATTILA, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: They made a myth of you, professor
Subject(s): Attila, King Of The Huns (434-453); Academia; Wit & Humor


ON A REDBREAST SINGING AT THE GRAVE OF PLATO (IN THE GROVE OF ACADEME), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose of gloaming everywhere!
Last Line: For a robin's song!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Academia; Greece; Hebrides (islands), Scotland; Home; Iona, Scotland; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Pleasure; Robins; Greeks


PARADE THE NARROW TURRETS, by LUCIA TRENT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thumb over your well-worn classics with clammy and accurate eyes
Last Line: And parade the narrow turrets as a cultivated man!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest
Subject(s): Academia; Sacco-vanzetti Case (1921); Social Protest


POETICS / MANUEL BANDEIRA, by STEPHEN BERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've had enough
Last Line: Like a perfect lover who mouths all the standard lines -- %etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc
Subject(s): Academia; Poetry And Poets


STAYING AT THE RESIDENCE OF ACADEMICIAN TING CHU YEN, by YU CHAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: At our private meeting
Last Line: Rings out %strict purity
Subject(s): Academia; Temples; Zen Buddhism


TIME AND THE THING-IN-ITSELF IN A TEXTBOOK, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I read it quickly: all the old clich??S
Last Line: As though – as though the fish, at least, were rotten
Subject(s): Academia


WITH TENURE, by DAVID LEHMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If ezra pound were alive today
Subject(s): Academia; Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)


WITH TENURE, by DAVID LEHMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If ezra pound were alive today
Last Line: The ketchup is stuck inside the bottle %the letter goes unanswered the bell doesn't ring
Subject(s): Academia; Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)