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Enter to win Tumblr (3.0; @thelateparade)http://www.thelateparade.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b70b431ff74c4320789ba312442b0e60/tumblr_mn9ehbxNvL1qk3ot2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Party party</p>http://www.thelateparade.com/post/51154214377http://www.thelateparade.com/post/51154214377Thu, 23 May 2013 12:15:10 -0400<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/78HceiccUgI?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>The Making of Twin Peaks (by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78HceiccUgI&feature=share" target="_blank">schambess</a>)</p>http://www.thelateparade.com/post/51132923680http://www.thelateparade.com/post/51132923680Thu, 23 May 2013 02:18:42 -0400<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/X_gmFLPrCrQ?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Jacques Février - Ravel - Pavane pour une infante défunte (1971) (by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_gmFLPrCrQ&feature=share" target="_blank">PhilippeLoTheEternal</a>)</p>http://www.thelateparade.com/post/51132689629http://www.thelateparade.com/post/51132689629Thu, 23 May 2013 02:12:52 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8933e6db2ab7189bcc2679f20bdba208/tumblr_mn8h5k7tda1qk3ot2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The History of the Avant-Garde</p>http://www.thelateparade.com/post/51126760042http://www.thelateparade.com/post/51126760042Thu, 23 May 2013 00:15:20 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/667b553f406bfe17dbacc9271df5c21f/tumblr_mn4gcxnuIF1qk3ot2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>ALI & @samanthaz3</p>http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50947188345http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50947188345Mon, 20 May 2013 20:07:45 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f782f86fc1d44a76d68a238b7712223b/tumblr_mn14uaQhnT1qk3ot2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Wayne K</p>http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50790027873http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50790027873Sun, 19 May 2013 01:06:10 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c2e8d94038d077dbbc4e7e34015bd4d4/tumblr_mn14u62NCL1qk3ot2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>American Literalism</p>http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50790024467http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50790024467Sun, 19 May 2013 01:06:06 -0400<a href="https://solvethispuzl.com/news/the-late-parade-adam-fitzgerald/#.UZHOH_QsAr4.tumblr">The Late Parade by Adam Fitzgerald</a>: <p><img height="611" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/393037_10100513912437167_1901951635_n.jpg" width="611"/></p>http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50403719445http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50403719445Tue, 14 May 2013 01:43:47 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e42facf4db00f94032d572a222a9cb47/tumblr_mmr2h9Tqmz1qk3ot2o1_100.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Brooklyn Bridge 130th Anniversary Poetry Reading: Brooklyn Bridge Park : The New Yorker</p>http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50355639384http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50355639384Mon, 13 May 2013 14:39:09 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/7246c3bd29dea0f4c14ee18a4e8b5913/tumblr_mmpsldVAyM1qbh26io3_400.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/525995a66c35234aa294211cb3ce7cdd/tumblr_mmpsldVAyM1qbh26io1_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/35b58fe64bce5ae1c122fbd8b4a69f59/tumblr_mmpsldVAyM1qbh26io2_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/dbf62a70d6652af487cd5b42a89c2475/tumblr_mmpsldVAyM1qbh26io4_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/9f4557d67128d042dea1aabf7a874bd2/tumblr_mmpsldVAyM1qbh26io5_400.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/94f838a411121ec7f5b392a975c3b382/tumblr_mmpsldVAyM1qbh26io6_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e4e9f303e65687648ac67b66f4338a0e/tumblr_mmpsldVAyM1qbh26io7_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><p><strong>SATURN</strong></p>http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50315204547http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50315204547Sun, 12 May 2013 23:05:49 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/83a93e4011cfddee8e998b632c7d06ff/tumblr_mmngk6NkKl1qk3ot2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>That Love Is All There Is / Is All We Know of Love #epic #blowout #grouphug</p>http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50189597524http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50189597524Sat, 11 May 2013 15:52:53 -0400epicgrouphugblowout<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b7ba55d8f6228145725c5b0ab9beb5a2/tumblr_mmneoehagu1qk3ot2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Clare Weil & @dorothealasky FIRE FIRE</p>http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50186704266http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50186704266Sat, 11 May 2013 15:12:14 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/2ca4115886912a1e189dfffdd956d4ca/tumblr_mmmyivT0kJ1qk3ot2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>GABE BOYERS: Rome Paris London Binghamton</p>http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50163396342http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50163396342Sat, 11 May 2013 09:23:18 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/6fd78a9ad0dbfb440df81471f822dff5/tumblr_mmmati0ZwO1qk3ot2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>BIG DADDY IN DA HIZZAH @tphealy</p>http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50144090401http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50144090401Sat, 11 May 2013 00:51:18 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/2fc25626b690584713b2399aca8d8e6a/tumblr_mmlz218WHc1qk3ot2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Tom Healy rocking the house @tphealy (at Binghamton Hots)</p>http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50126594681http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50126594681Fri, 10 May 2013 20:37:12 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/0db97f9059e572433fdd4677c5112843/tumblr_mmlwj8nYKv1qk3ot2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Jewish Terminator @tphealy</p>http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50122980925http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50122980925Fri, 10 May 2013 19:42:43 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c7a1d1b68dbe4f5d38a04aa2cdf51a21/tumblr_mmljuwkUCw1qk3ot2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>M.C. NUGGET #poetryglasses</p>http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50104143693http://www.thelateparade.com/post/50104143693Fri, 10 May 2013 15:08:56 -0400poetryglasses<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/181230974330158dd7800dc3250bdaf3/tumblr_mmi2vwFMdH1qk3ot2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>TOMORROW! #thelateparade #books #poetry #booze</p>http://www.thelateparade.com/post/49962400471http://www.thelateparade.com/post/49962400471Wed, 08 May 2013 18:09:32 -0400boozebookspoetrythelateparade<a href="http://www.newschool.edu/eventdetail.aspx?id=88420#.UYH1fypP-jQ.tumblr">Poetry Forum: Adam Fitzgerald | The New School | University Events</a>http://www.thelateparade.com/post/49419728290http://www.thelateparade.com/post/49419728290Thu, 02 May 2013 01:11:35 -0400<p><strong><span>I guess it’s too late to live on the farm</span></strong><br/><strong><span>I guess it’s too late to move to a farm</span></strong><br/><strong><span>I guess it’s too late to start farming</span></strong><br/><strong><span>I guess it’s too late to begin farming</span></strong><br/><strong><span>I guess we’ll never have a farm</span></strong><br/><strong><span>I guess we’re too old to do farming</span></strong><br/><strong><span>I guess we couldn’t afford to buy a farm anyway</span></strong><br/><strong><span>I guess we’re not suited to being farmers</span></strong><br/><strong><span>I guess we’ll never have a farm now</span></strong><br/><strong><span>I guess farming is not in the cards now</span></strong><br/><strong><span>I guess Lewis wouldn’t make a good farmer</span></strong><br/><strong><span>I guess I can’t expect we’ll ever have a farm now</span></strong><br/><strong><span>I guess I’ll have to give up all my dreams of being a farmer</span></strong><br/><strong><span>I guess I’ll never be a farmer now</span></strong><br/><strong><span>We couldn’t get a farm anyway though Allen Ginsberg got one late in life</span></strong><br/><strong><span>Maybe someday I’ll have a big garden</span></strong><br/><strong><span>I guess farming is really out</span></strong><br/><strong><span>Feeding the pigs and the chickens, walking between miles of rows of crops</span></strong><br/><strong><span>I guess farming is just too difficult</span></strong><br/><strong><span>We’ll never have a farm</span></strong><br/><strong><span>Too much work and still to be poets</span></strong><br/><strong><span>Who are the farmer poets</span></strong><br/><strong><span>Was there ever a poet who had a self-sufficient farm</span></strong><br/><strong><span>Flannery O’Connor raised peacocks</span></strong><br/><strong><span>And Wendell Berry has a farm</span></strong><br/><strong><span>Faulkner may have farmed a little</span></strong><br/><strong><span>And Robert Frost had farmland</span></strong><br/><strong><span>And someone told me Samuel Beckett farmed</span></strong><br/><strong><span>Very few poets are real farmers</span></strong><br/><strong><span>If William Carlos Williams could be a doctor and Charlie Vermont too,</span></strong><br/><strong><span>Why not a poet who was also a farmer</span></strong><br/><strong><span>Of course there was Brook Farm</span></strong><br/><strong><span>And Virgil raised bees</span></strong><br/><strong><span>Perhaps some poets of the past were overseers of farmers</span></strong><br/><strong><span>I guess poets tend to live more momentarily</span></strong><br/><strong><span>Than life on a farm would allow</span></strong><br/><strong><span>You could never leave the farm to give a reading</span></strong><br/><strong><span>Or to go to a lecture by Emerson in Concord</span></strong><br/><strong><span>I don’t want to be a farmer but my mother was right</span></strong><br/><strong><span>I should never have tried to rise out of the proletariat</span></strong><br/><strong><span>Unless I can convince myself as Satan argues with Eve</span></strong><br/><strong><span>That we are among a proletariat of poets of all the classes</span></strong><br/><strong><span>Each ill-paid and surviving on nothing</span></strong><br/><strong><span>Or on as little as one needs to survive</span></strong><br/><strong><span>Steadfast as any farmer and fixed as the stars</span></strong><br/><strong><span>Tenants of a vision we rent out endlessly</span></strong></p>http://www.thelateparade.com/post/49161387789http://www.thelateparade.com/post/49161387789Mon, 29 Apr 2013 01:39:46 -0400Bernadette Mayerfarmspoetryeveconcordemerson