Comments on: About http://thegladdestthing.com a poem a day, more or less Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:45:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lola http://thegladdestthing.com/about/comment-page-1#comment-2937 Lola Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:25:11 +0000 http://thegladdestthing.com/?page_id=28#comment-2937 My inbox misses your poem emails. My inbox misses your poem emails.

]]> By: David Budbill http://thegladdestthing.com/about/comment-page-1#comment-2840 David Budbill Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:41:19 +0000 http://thegladdestthing.com/?page_id=28#comment-2840 Dear Michelle McGinnis, May I put your name and email address on my email list? You'll hear from me about 3 or 4 times a year with announcements of one kind or another, like a new issues of my cyberzine THE JUDEVINE MOUNTAIN EMAILITE or the publication of a new book of poems, next one due is HAPPY LIFE from Copper Canyon Press in September 2011. Please send me your email address if you agree to the above. Sincerely, David Budbill Dear Michelle McGinnis,

May I put your name and email address on my email list? You’ll hear from me about 3 or 4 times a year with announcements of one kind or another, like a new issues of my cyberzine THE JUDEVINE MOUNTAIN EMAILITE or the publication of a new book of poems, next one due is HAPPY LIFE from Copper Canyon Press in September 2011.

Please send me your email address if you agree to the above.

Sincerely, David Budbill

]]> By: Leila Rosen http://thegladdestthing.com/about/comment-page-1#comment-2684 Leila Rosen Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:03:45 +0000 http://thegladdestthing.com/?page_id=28#comment-2684 I really like this! I was searching for poems by a poet I care for--Martha Baird--and came upon your site, which has one of my favorite poems by her: "Do Not Make Things Too Easy." I'd like you to know of another of my favorites, and I'm including it here. To the Gentlemen, by Martha Baird (from Nice Deity, 1955) Someone should explain to the gentlemen That a lady need not look like a frump To have a mind. A lady is born with a certain bone structure, Which, if it is rather good or not, Is neither credit nor blame to her. She is likewise born with possibilities of mind, Which, if she develops, are lovelier to her And more cherished than her bones. Ladies can have a lot of fun Making fools of gentlemen who do not understand this. Someone really should explain it To the gentlemen. I really like this! I was searching for poems by a poet I care for–Martha Baird–and came upon your site, which has one of my favorite poems by her: “Do Not Make Things Too Easy.” I’d like you to know of another of my favorites, and I’m including it here.

To the Gentlemen, by Martha Baird (from Nice Deity, 1955)

Someone should explain to the gentlemen
That a lady need not look like a frump
To have a mind.
A lady is born with a certain bone structure,
Which, if it is rather good or not,
Is neither credit nor blame to her.
She is likewise born with possibilities of mind,
Which, if she develops, are lovelier to her
And more cherished than her bones.
Ladies can have a lot of fun
Making fools of gentlemen who do not understand
this.
Someone really should explain it
To the gentlemen.

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