[lit-ideas] Re: Inaugural Poetry

Donal: Could even play a game of what certain poets
(Eliot, Auden) might produce if given a set task


Auden managed to write "Under Which Lyre" as a
commencement ceremony poem. There are some successful
occasional poems. Here are some less-successful possibilities: 

*Charles Bukowski's poem celebrating World Cup
Soccer.
*John Berryman's poem celebrating National Health
Awareness Week.
*Anne Sexton's poem for the National Right to Life
Association.
*Philip Larkin's poem for the (US or UK-equivalent) PTA.
*Chatterton's Ode to Copyright
*The newly discovered poem by Quintus Horatius Flaccus, "Arse Poetica," which blows the lid on mutual blurbing, good-buddy grant hogging, and MFA mafia corruption by bards. 
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