My Featured Blogger this week is Paul Szlosek of Paul’s Poetry Playground. Paul is a first-order poetry aficionado (he even looks like a poet). A past recipient of the Jacob Knight Award for Poetry, his work has appeared in numerous publications. Paul also studies, teaches and quotes other poets, and invents new poetic forms.
Paul’s tribute to e. e. cummings (below), one of my favorite poets as well, is absolutely spot-on and delightful!
You may be familiar with my series of beau présents recently written as tributes to my favorite poets that I have been posting on this blog lately. Well, the poem I am posting today is not part of that series; it is definitely not a beau présent, anf not actually in any specific poetry form per se (though it was certainly written in a style meant to emulate the poet I was attempting to honor: E. E. Cummings). The following poem was written over 20 years ago when Peter Mancevice, the publisher of a local poetry journal called Sahara, approached poets in the Worcester, MA area (including myself), asking them to write and submit poems about their favourite poets and the reasons why they liked them for a planned special issue. Apparently there wasn’t a sufficient amount of submissions, and this special edition of the journal never came to…
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Mitch Teemley 
I agree. He looks like a poet indeed.
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He does Indeed
Stay well and Laugh when you can
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Mitch,
Keep encouraging our creatives. Thanks for sharing. Hope all is good. Getting out?
Thanks,
Gary
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We’ve eaten at one restaurant since the quarantine started to lift; the place was nearly empty. Otherwise mostly just walks outdoors. You?
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Thank you so much, Mitch! This is such an incredible honor!😊
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The honor’s mine, Paul.
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Great stuff! Thanks for sharing. It makes me realize I need more poetry in my life.
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Loved this!
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Hi Mitch,
Appreciate your liking Anarchist Nights poem over on my PoemsPerDay blog.
Best,
Len Freeman
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