Category Archives: Poetry

Hrothgar’s Grave

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

Go behind Bairnwick, toward a small stand of oaks and the swamp leading to Stirling’s, and you will see the gravestone of Hrothgar. Who was Hrothgar, you ask?  He was an English bulldog, much beloved in Sewanee over half a … Continue reading →

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Protected: Bye Bye Burdies?

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

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Words for Wines and Other Important Things

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

There’s a fine piece in this week’s New Yorker (July 12, 2014) by Maria Konnikova entitled “What We Really Taste When We Drink Wine” that I think has some bearing on what we do in the Humanities.  I had begun … Continue reading →

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Protected: Diomedes and Glaucus in Fortaleza

Posted on July 5, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

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it’s always ourselves we find in the sea

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me) it’s always ourselves we find in the sea ­–e.e. cummings, maggie and milly and molly and may (1958)

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Protected: My World Cup Journal 2014

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: To See A Fine Lady

Posted on May 17, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

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Lines Written in the Ashmolean Museum

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

Father and young sons Looking at Laocoön Museum torture  

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Everybody Needs the Gospel and Everybody Loves Sausage

Posted on April 12, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

So, this past weekend, the Classical Association of the Middle West and South conference was sharing space at the Waco Convention Center with the Predator & Wild Hog Expo and the Modern Sporting Arms Expo. It made for an unlikely … Continue reading →

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Introduction for Charles Martin

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

Introduction to the Stacy Allen Haines Memorial Lecture Convocation Hall, University of the South Sewanee, Tennessee April 9, 2014 Perhaps it is true, as Auden says in memory of Yeats, that “poetry makes nothing happen,” but all I know is … Continue reading →

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