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Transgression, Fake and Genuine: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi

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January 23, 2023
Essays, Poetry
32 Comments
. Transgression, Fake and Genuine       by Joseph S. Salemi When Henry Harland and Aubrey Beardsley brought forth their groundbreaking periodical...

‘I Met a Shepherdess’ by Guido Cavalcanti, Translated by Joseph S. Salemi

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January 8, 2023
Essays, Love Poems, Poetry, Translation
20 Comments
. I Met a Shepherdess  by Guido Cavalcanti (c. 1250-1300) translated by Joseph S. Salemi I met a shepherdess in a small copse. More beautiful than...

‘The Tartini Tones’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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December 18, 2022
Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry
17 Comments
. The Tartini Tones Combination tones generated by violins of good quality can be easily heard, affecting the perception of the intervals. The...

‘Pope-Lion’ by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Translated by Joseph S. Salemi

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November 30, 2022
Culture, Poetry, Satire
8 Comments
. Pope-Lion by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791-1863)translated from Romanesco by Joseph S. Salemi Before Pope Genga went down to the grottoTo be four...

Henny and Sal: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi

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November 14, 2022
Essays, For Educators, Poetry
12 Comments
. Henny and Sal by Joseph S. Salemi My father, Salvatore J. Salemi, was a noncommissioned officer in G-2 (Military Intelligence) during the Second...

‘Shroud-Eater’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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October 30, 2022
Culture, Poetry
18 Comments
. Shroud-Eater The undead Shroud-Eater, or mâcheur de suaire, is not as well known as the vampire, but is just as horrifying. He prowls...

An Essay on John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, by Joseph S. Salemi

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October 20, 2022
Culture, Essays, Poetry
24 Comments
. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: A Restorative from the Restoration by Joseph S. Salemi John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester, stands out because of...

‘Congratulations and Homage to Giorgia Meloni’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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September 27, 2022
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
61 Comments
. Congratulations and Homage to Giorgia Meloni Italy rises up and overthrows The stench of leftist tyranny at last. Rage among the EU’s pooh-bahs...

‘Obedience’ by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Translated by Joseph S. Salemi (with a Long Note)

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September 13, 2022
Culture, Essays, Humor, Poetry, Translation
16 Comments
. Obedience by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791-1863) translated from Romanesco by Joseph S. Salemi It’s not true, Christians, what you have been...

A Conceit or Just a Similitude? Two Brief Illustrations from Sir John Suckling, by Joseph S. Salemi

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August 25, 2022
Culture, Essays, Humor, Poetry
13 Comments
. A Conceit or Just a Similitude? Two Brief Illustrations from Sir John Suckling by Joseph S. Salemi One of the earliest things one learns in poetry...

‘Byron Swims the Hellespont’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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August 6, 2022
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
43 Comments
. Byron Swims the Hellespont On May 9, 1810, Lord Byron swam across the Hellespont from Sestos to Abydos to duplicate the legendary back-and-forth...

‘Creativity, Originality, and Eccentricity’: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi

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July 22, 2022
Essays, Poetry, Shakespeare
38 Comments
. Creativity, Originality, and Eccentricity by Joseph S. Salemi I don’t know why it should be so, but I have a propensity to attract the attention...

A Translation of Horace’s Barine Ode, by Joseph S. Salemi

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July 11, 2022
Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Sapphic Verse, Translation
20 Comments
. Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Odes, II.8 “The first thing we learn about Barine is that she is in the habit of making and breaking promises (of love...

‘A Glass for My Father’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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June 19, 2022
Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry
20 Comments
. A Glass for My Father Marie-Maurille de Virot, Mademoiselle de Sombreuil (February 14, 1768—May 15, 1823) My father was the Marquis de...

‘Three Poems on Problems’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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June 4, 2022
Culture, Poetry
26 Comments
. Servant of the Servants of God Servus Servorum Dei —a title of the Pope A small informal gathering of clergy From satin cassocks down to the...

‘Satan’s Limericks on the Seven Deadly Sins’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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May 15, 2022
Culture, Humor, Limerick, Poetry
19 Comments
. Satan’s Limericks on the Seven Deadly Sins Sepulchrum patens est guttur eorum; linguis suis dolose agebant: venenum aspidum sub labiis...

‘Crank Out a Few, Please’: Observations on Poetic Composition by Joseph S. Salemi

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May 3, 2022
Essays, For Educators, Poetry
22 Comments
. Crank Out a Few, Please by Joseph S. Salemi Many years ago, when I was in graduate school, I attended a seminar on Vergil’s Eclogues. These are...

‘A Clamshell in Concrete’ (and a Short Note) by Joseph S. Salemi

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April 8, 2022
Beauty, Blank Verse, Essays, Poetry
24 Comments
. A Clamshell in Concrete  I was a child in kindergarten class. My mother held my hand as we trod on The sidewalk leading to the boulevard. This was...

Three Poems on Language by Joseph S. Salemi

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March 28, 2022
Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry
20 Comments
. The Hypodermic For a poet, the pen is merely part Of the apparatus of addiction. He emulates the frozen fly in amber Watching eons come, roll by,...

A Poem on the Proverbial Uptight Librarian, by Joseph S. Salemi

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March 5, 2022
Humor, Poetry
32 Comments
. Prudence Huntleigh, Head Librarian theme of “the proverbial uptight librarian” suggested by Brian Yapko She mans the front desk and she...

A Valentine: ‘To a Girl Named Olivia’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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February 13, 2022
Beauty, Blank Verse, Love Poems, Poetry
19 Comments
. To a Girl Named Olivia What shall I say to you of untold love In this more than empty space that lies between Our two selves wound in tongue-tied...

‘The Crucifixion of the Serpent’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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February 8, 2022
Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry
17 Comments
. The Crucifixion of the Serpent And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any...

Three Poems on Religion (with a short note) by Joseph S. Salemi

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January 20, 2022
Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry
13 Comments
. Apocalypse The fractured sky splits, flaming at the edge— The earth heaves upwards in explosive wrath. No eye can bear the clay-caked risen...

Poetic Pitfalls: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi

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January 5, 2022
Essays, For Educators, Poetry
18 Comments
. There are a number of ways to go wrong in poetry. Unfortunately, the Poetry Establishment is only willing to admit the existence of a select few...

‘Twelve Chaucerian Limericks’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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December 20, 2021
Culture, Humor, Limerick, Poetry
19 Comments
. Twelve Chaucerian Limericks for Paul Freeman Some pilgrims went riding to Kent, And here’s how the journey was spent: As they traipsed through...

‘What Foo Dogs Can Teach Us’: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi

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November 26, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry
19 Comments
. Many years ago I gave a talk at a scholarly conference at Queens College, C.U.N.Y. My section of the conference was dedicated to contemporary...

A Poem for Kyle Rittenhouse: ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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November 20, 2021
Culture, Poetry
18 Comments
. Don’t Tread on Me For Kyle Rittenhouse, acquitted on November 19, the feast day of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, patroness of the falsely...

‘Biden Has an Accident at the Vatican’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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November 9, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
15 Comments
. Biden Has an Accident at the Vatican Ubi Petrus, ibi Ecclesia: Where Peter is, there is the Church. Ubi Bergoglius, ibi merda: Where Bergoglio is,...

‘Let’s Go, Brandon…’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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November 4, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
22 Comments
. "Let's Go Brandon" People don’t want to say “F--k” When dealing with President Schmuck. So they say “Let’s go, Brandon” instead To a...

‘The Asinine Armoress: Hannah Gutierrez Reed’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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October 28, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
7 Comments
. To all the tough women in Texas who actually know how to handle guns. My daddy got the job for me. He wanted me to work. And daddy’s got a lot of...

‘Pope Sylvester II and Meridiana’ by Joseph S. Salemi (and an Essay on Dramatic Monologues)

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October 24, 2021
Culture, Essays, Humor, Poetry
11 Comments
. Pope Sylvester II and Meridiana Pope Sylvester II, born Gerbert de Aurillac (946-1003), is said to have had a demonic succubus named Meridiana who...

Three Sonnets on Contemporary Poetry, by Joseph S. Salemi

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October 8, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
25 Comments
. Prerequisites for a Trendy Poetry Reading Casual clothes, streetwise but debonair: Knit sweater, denims (slightly dishabille); A tentative,...

A Major Problem: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi

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August 27, 2021
Culture, Essays, Poetry
89 Comments
. "American pragmatism insists that words are for use, not enjoyment; American puritanism insists that expression is a duty, not a pleasure."...

‘Pierrepoint on Capital Punishment’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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August 17, 2021
Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry
19 Comments
. Albert Pierrrepoint (1905-1992) served as one of GreatBritain’s chief executioners from 1931 to 1956, duringwhich time he hanged over 500...

When Poetry Matters, and When It Doesn’t: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi

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July 27, 2021
Culture, Essays, Poetry
59 Comments
. A widespread distemper in modern life is the insistent need that many people feel to justify themselves and their activities. Countless persons...

Two Mythological Poems by Joseph S. Salemi

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July 19, 2021
Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Humor, Poetry
13 Comments
. Heliotrope Phaeton, son of the god Helios, attempted to drive his father’s celestial chariot. His inexperience caused him to burn up part of the...

‘The Carnelian Ring: A Still-Life’ by Joseph S. Salemi, and ‘A Note on the Objective Correlative’

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June 29, 2021
Art, Beauty, Blank Verse, Essays, Poetry
11 Comments
. The Carnelian Ring: A Still-Life Footfalls echo in the memoryDown the passage which we did not takeTowards the door we never openedInto the...

The Perils of “Perfection”: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi

The Society
June 12, 2021
Essays, Poetry
40 Comments
. Persons devoted to formal, metrical poetry are susceptible to a specific disease, much in the same way as light-skinned persons are apt to get bad...

‘Épuration’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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June 2, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
14 Comments
. On the Greek isle of Tilos are the ruins of the sanctuary of Pythian Apollo. Over them has been built the Church of the Archangel Michael. "Now rot...

Two Poems about Stone, by Joseph S. Salemi

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May 19, 2021
Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry
17 Comments
. Isolde and the Men of Stone Who could believe, except on ancient trust? The stones grew pliant, yielding into shape When softer nature touched...
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