Author: Andrew Porteus
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Convenient Corner by Cole McInerney
The consistent consumer light from the Circle K that summer. A mirage among the sleeping suburb. Zombie-like worker. Refrigerator hummer. The back wall title text cheap soda happiness guarantee, like broadcasting palm trees on a green screen. Back out to the parking lot below the practically perfect Circle Moon Source: The author, 2023…
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The Niagara Way of Death Presentation
Tonight (May 18) at 7pm I’ll be doing the online presentation “The Niagara Way of Death: Depictions of Death & Near Death in the Poetry of Niagara Falls” at the Niagara Poetry Guild meeting. Please join us through the link at Meetup Death is a pervasive topic in the poetry written about Niagara Falls. In…
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Under the Locust Boughs by Tom Lloyd Finlayson
To “J.” — written under the locust trees along the banks of the Niagara In a realm of song and shine, Where God’s sweetest wild flowers twine, By Niagara’s singing stream, Last night in a golden dream, Wandered I, while at my side Was a laughing maid, blue-eyed. Spun from the silk of the corn…
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Niagara, I Love You by Tom Lloyd Finlayson
Written during a recent visit to Niagara Falls, Canada Men tell of the spell of the Rockies, The glamour of the seven seas — Here in my own native home-land A wonder dwells greater than these. …………REFRAIN: When cherry boughs glow And soft breezes blow, Niagara, I love you, I do — When silvery moonlight,…
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Popular Cuture Association National Conference, 2023
The last few days my wife, Louise and I have been in San Antonio, Texas, for the 53th annual Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association 53rd annual conference. I was presenting “The Niagara Way of Death: Depictions of Death and Near-Death in the Poetry of Niagara Falls,” a more academic, but briefer version of…