Real Things: An Anthology of Popular Culture in American Poetry
Real Things: An Anthology of Popular Culture in American Poetry
Overview
November 22, 1983by Sherman AlexiePickupby Paul AllenTattoo #47, Happy Dragonby Paul AllenTeaching Poetry At Votech High, Santa Fe, The Week John Lennon Was Shoby Paula Gunn AllenBlue Suede Shoesby Florence AnthonyFamous Women - Claudette Colbertby Kathleen De Azevedo8-ball At The Twiliteby David BakerThe End Of The Reagan Eraby Peter BalakianWhen I Think About America Sometimes (i Think Of Ralph Kramden)by Dorothy BarresiDreaming At The Rexall Drugby Robin BeckerPeter Pan In North Americaby Robin BeckerThe True Story Of Snow Whiteby Bruce BennettOf Time And The Lineby Charles BernsteinIn A U-haul North Of Damascusby David BottomsIn The Black Camaroby David BottomsJackie In Cambodiaby Catherine BowmanRapunzelby Olga BroumasLunch With Girl Scoutsby Sharon BryanSuperman Is Deadby Rafael CampoGhostsby William CarpenterBreastsby Maxine ChernoffNote Passed To Supermanby Lucille CliftonSoapby Jane Candia ColemanDavid Cassidy Thenby Dennis CooperGilligan's Islandby Dennis CooperSome Adventures Of John Kennedy, Jrby Dennis CooperJeanne Dixon's Americaby Gerald CostanzoNo Deposit No Returnsby Carlos CumpianJack, Afterwardsby Philip DaceyShort-order Cookby Jim DanielsTed's Bar And Grillby Jim DanielsFrankensteinby Connie DeanovichFrom Ephemera Today On All My Childrenby Connie DeanovichWhy Don't I?by O. F. Diaz-duqueDays Of 1981by Mark DotyAfter Reading Mickey In The Night Kitchen For The Third Timeby Rita DoveBarbie's Molesterby Denise DuhamelThe Man I Love And I Shop At Jewelby Jim ElledgeOutside Room Sixby Lynn EmanuelThe Stripperby Anita Endrezze-danielsonMannequinsby Daniel Mark EpsteinThe Lady In The Pink Mustangby Louise ErdrichCoca-cola And Coco Frioby Martin EspadaTransient Hotel Sky At The Hour Of Sleepby Martin EspadaLost Parentsby Lawrence FerlinghettiThe Bride Of Frankensteinby Edward FieldA Supermarket In Californiaby Allen GinsbergLonely Tylenolby Peter GizziThe Counterfeit Earth!by Albert GoldbarthThe Talk Showby Albert GoldbarthIndian Carby Catron GrievesMythologyby Marilyn HackerMotown / Smokey Robinsonby Jessica Tarahata HagedornSt. Clare's Underwearby Barbara HambyWe Encounter Nat King Cole As We Invent The Futureby Joy HarjoWhy That's Bob Hopeby William HathawayIowa Blues Bar Spiritualby Juan Felipe HerreraMantleby William HeyenMoon Winx Motelby Emily HiestandIn The Days Of Rin-tin-tinby Daniel Gerard HoffmanLiberaceby Jonathan HoldenWhy We Bombed Haiphongby Jonathan HoldenOff From Swing Shiftby Garrett Kaoru HongoBillie In Silkby Angela JacksonA Personal History Of Handsby Lori JakielaThe Incognito Loungeby Denis JohnsonThe All-night Dinerby Markham P., Iii JohnsonThe Birth Of Rhythm And Bluesby Patricia Spears JonesIf I Were Rita Hayworthby Patricia Spears JonesOn The Bearing Of Waitressesby Rodney JonesTvby Rodney JonesMid-year Report: For Harukoby June JordanEl Elvisby Wasabi KanastogaFunicello At 50by KlipschutzNever Landby Yusef KomunyakaaUpby Bill KushnerThe Difference Between Pepsi And Cokeby David LehmanWhitmanby Larry LevisJames Dean & The Pigby Joseph LikePostmodern: A Definitionby Joseph LikeEchoesby Timothy LiuIkonby Timothy LiuThe Day They Eulogized Mahaliaby Audre LordeSonny's Purple Heartby Adrian C. LouisOne Meat Ballby Thomas LuxHazel Tells Laverneby Katharyn Howd MachanNo, Superman Was Not The Only Oneby Katharyn Howd MachanSuzie Wong Doesn't Live Hereby Diane Mei Lin MarkMail Order Catalogsby William MatthewsA Story Often Told In Bars: The Reader's Digest Versionby William MatthewsPornography, Nebraskaby Sandra Jean McphersonBarbie Says Math Is Hardby Kyoko MoriAn Anointingby Thylias MossShopping For Midnightby G. E. MurrayMom Did Marilyn, Dad Did Fredby Jack MyersTradition And Changeby Nora Naranjo-morseThe Novelty Shopby Duane NiatumSelf Portrait As Nancy Drew, Girl Sleuthby Kristy NielsenTabloid Newsby Blythe NoblemanCatalogue Armyby Naomi Shihab NyeThe Death Of Marilyn Monroeby Sharon OldsFor Emily (dickinson)by Maureen OwenIn The Bluemist Motelby Greg PapeVanna White's Bread Puddingby Michael PettitToysby Carl PhillipsMy Son Shows Me A Photograph Of Michael Jordan Performing A Slam Dunkby Louis PhillipsThe Apparitionby Carol J. PiermanThe First Rock And Roll Song Of 1970by Pedro PietriThe Dancing Sunshine Loungeby Thomas RabbittThe Man She Called Honey, And Marriedby Alberto Alvaro RiosAfter The Wedding Partyby Matt RohrerMarilyn Monroe Indianby Leo RomeroThe Black Back-upsby Kate RushinBlonde Ambitionby Maureen SeatonA Story Of Stonewallby Maureen SeatonHygieneby Reginald ShepherdWoodstockby Jan Mitchell SherrillWaitressby Jason ShinderDizzy Girls In The Sixtiesby Gary SotoTv In Black And Whiteby Gary SotoShopliftersby Maura StantonScrabbleby David StarkeyBecause You're Americanby Kevin SteinPunk Pantoumby Pamela StewartThe Gypsy Teachers Her Grandchild Wolfen Waysby Susan SwartwoutSiamese Twins In Loveby Susan SwartwoutArrowhead Christian Center And No-smoking Luncheonetteby Janet Sylvester'mericn Fst Fdby Thom TammaroPay Up Or Elseby Luci TapahonsoThe Motorcyclistsby James TateThe Shower Scene In Psychoby David TrinidadKong Breaks A Leg At The William Morris Agencyby William TrowbridgeViet Kongby William TrowbridgeSuzy Wong's Been Dead A Long Timeby Kitty TsuiScene From The Movie Giantby Tino VillanuevaHarold And Imogeneby Paul Randolph VioliMisguided Angelsby Gale Renee WaldenRumpelstiltskin Conventionby Charles Harper WebbHomage To Elvis, Homage To The Fathersby Bruce WeiglOshiby James L. WhiteFrancis Ford Coppola And Anthropologist Interpreter Teaching Gartewienby David Wojahn'it's Only Rock And Roll But I Like It': The Fall Of Saigon, 1975by David WojahnMy Father's Pornographyby David WojahnBy-productsby Baron WormserShopliftingby Baron WormserTake Good Care Of Yourselfby Mark WunderlichCorpse And Mirror: 3by John YauRomanceby Paul Zimmer--Table of Poems fromPoem Finder®--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.Description
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November 22, 1983by Sherman AlexiePickupby Paul AllenTattoo #47, Happy Dragonby Paul AllenTeaching Poetry At Votech High, Santa Fe, The Week John Lennon Was Shoby Paula Gunn AllenBlue Suede Shoesby Florence AnthonyFamous Women - Claudette Colbertby Kathleen De Azevedo8-ball At The Twiliteby David BakerThe End Of The Reagan Eraby Peter BalakianWhen I Think About America Sometimes (i Think Of Ralph Kramden)by Dorothy BarresiDreaming At The Rexall Drugby Robin BeckerPeter Pan In North Americaby Robin BeckerThe True Story Of Snow Whiteby Bruce BennettOf Time And The Lineby Charles BernsteinIn A U-haul North Of Damascusby David BottomsIn The Black Camaroby David BottomsJackie In Cambodiaby Catherine BowmanRapunzelby Olga BroumasLunch With Girl Scoutsby Sharon BryanSuperman Is Deadby Rafael CampoGhostsby William CarpenterBreastsby Maxine ChernoffNote Passed To Supermanby Lucille CliftonSoapby Jane Candia ColemanDavid Cassidy Thenby Dennis CooperGilligan's Islandby Dennis CooperSome Adventures Of John Kennedy, Jrby Dennis CooperJeanne Dixon's Americaby Gerald CostanzoNo Deposit No Returnsby Carlos CumpianJack, Afterwardsby Philip DaceyShort-order Cookby Jim DanielsTed's Bar And Grillby Jim DanielsFrankensteinby Connie DeanovichFrom Ephemera Today On All My Childrenby Connie DeanovichWhy Don't I?by O. F. Diaz-duqueDays Of 1981by Mark DotyAfter Reading Mickey In The Night Kitchen For The Third Timeby Rita DoveBarbie's Molesterby Denise DuhamelThe Man I Love And I Shop At Jewelby Jim ElledgeOutside Room Sixby Lynn EmanuelThe Stripperby Anita Endrezze-danielsonMannequinsby Daniel Mark EpsteinThe Lady In The Pink Mustangby Louise ErdrichCoca-cola And Coco Frioby Martin EspadaTransient Hotel Sky At The Hour Of Sleepby Martin EspadaLost Parentsby Lawrence FerlinghettiThe Bride Of Frankensteinby Edward FieldA Supermarket In Californiaby Allen GinsbergLonely Tylenolby Peter GizziThe Counterfeit Earth!by Albert GoldbarthThe Talk Showby Albert GoldbarthIndian Carby Catron GrievesMythologyby Marilyn HackerMotown / Smokey Robinsonby Jessica Tarahata HagedornSt. Clare's Underwearby Barbara HambyWe Encounter Nat King Cole As We Invent The Futureby Joy HarjoWhy That's Bob Hopeby William HathawayIowa Blues Bar Spiritualby Juan Felipe HerreraMantleby William HeyenMoon Winx Motelby Emily HiestandIn The Days Of Rin-tin-tinby Daniel Gerard HoffmanLiberaceby Jonathan HoldenWhy We Bombed Haiphongby Jonathan HoldenOff From Swing Shiftby Garrett Kaoru HongoBillie In Silkby Angela JacksonA Personal History Of Handsby Lori JakielaThe Incognito Loungeby Denis JohnsonThe All-night Dinerby Markham P., Iii JohnsonThe Birth Of Rhythm And Bluesby Patricia Spears JonesIf I Were Rita Hayworthby Patricia Spears JonesOn The Bearing Of Waitressesby Rodney JonesTvby Rodney JonesMid-year Report: For Harukoby June JordanEl Elvisby Wasabi KanastogaFunicello At 50by KlipschutzNever Landby Yusef KomunyakaaUpby Bill KushnerThe Difference Between Pepsi And Cokeby David LehmanWhitmanby Larry LevisJames Dean & The Pigby Joseph LikePostmodern: A Definitionby Joseph LikeEchoesby Timothy LiuIkonby Timothy LiuThe Day They Eulogized Mahaliaby Audre LordeSonny's Purple Heartby Adrian C. LouisOne Meat Ballby Thomas LuxHazel Tells Laverneby Katharyn Howd MachanNo, Superman Was Not The Only Oneby Katharyn Howd MachanSuzie Wong Doesn't Live Hereby Diane Mei Lin MarkMail Order Catalogsby William MatthewsA Story Often Told In Bars: The Reader's Digest Versionby William MatthewsPornography, Nebraskaby Sandra Jean McphersonBarbie Says Math Is Hardby Kyoko MoriAn Anointingby Thylias MossShopping For Midnightby G. E. MurrayMom Did Marilyn, Dad Did Fredby Jack MyersTradition And Changeby Nora Naranjo-morseThe Novelty Shopby Duane NiatumSelf Portrait As Nancy Drew, Girl Sleuthby Kristy NielsenTabloid Newsby Blythe NoblemanCatalogue Armyby Naomi Shihab NyeThe Death Of Marilyn Monroeby Sharon OldsFor Emily (dickinson)by Maureen OwenIn The Bluemist Motelby Greg PapeVanna White's Bread Puddingby Michael PettitToysby Carl PhillipsMy Son Shows Me A Photograph Of Michael Jordan Performing A Slam Dunkby Louis PhillipsThe Apparitionby Carol J. PiermanThe First Rock And Roll Song Of 1970by Pedro PietriThe Dancing Sunshine Loungeby Thomas RabbittThe Man She Called Honey, And Marriedby Alberto Alvaro RiosAfter The Wedding Partyby Matt RohrerMarilyn Monroe Indianby Leo RomeroThe Black Back-upsby Kate RushinBlonde Ambitionby Maureen SeatonA Story Of Stonewallby Maureen SeatonHygieneby Reginald ShepherdWoodstockby Jan Mitchell SherrillWaitressby Jason ShinderDizzy Girls In The Sixtiesby Gary SotoTv In Black And Whiteby Gary SotoShopliftersby Maura StantonScrabbleby David StarkeyBecause You're Americanby Kevin SteinPunk Pantoumby Pamela StewartThe Gypsy Teachers Her Grandchild Wolfen Waysby Susan SwartwoutSiamese Twins In Loveby Susan SwartwoutArrowhead Christian Center And No-smoking Luncheonetteby Janet Sylvester'mericn Fst Fdby Thom TammaroPay Up Or Elseby Luci TapahonsoThe Motorcyclistsby James TateThe Shower Scene In Psychoby David TrinidadKong Breaks A Leg At The William Morris Agencyby William TrowbridgeViet Kongby William TrowbridgeSuzy Wong's Been Dead A Long Timeby Kitty TsuiScene From The Movie Giantby Tino VillanuevaHarold And Imogeneby Paul Randolph VioliMisguided Angelsby Gale Renee WaldenRumpelstiltskin Conventionby Charles Harper WebbHomage To Elvis, Homage To The Fathersby Bruce WeiglOshiby James L. WhiteFrancis Ford Coppola And Anthropologist Interpreter Teaching Gartewienby David Wojahn'it's Only Rock And Roll But I Like It': The Fall Of Saigon, 1975by David WojahnMy Father's Pornographyby David WojahnBy-productsby Baron WormserShopliftingby Baron WormserTake Good Care Of Yourselfby Mark WunderlichCorpse And Mirror: 3by John YauRomanceby Paul Zimmer--Table of Poems fromPoem Finder®--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.Description
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