National Poetry Month: Poem-a-day Challenge #6
Blog Post by John Parker Oughton - Apr.06.2012 - 6:46 am
Poem-a-day Challenge for National Poetry Month
#6
NEWS FLASH!
In an incredible breakthrough,
archeologists have found and decoded
a 60-million-year-old dinosaur text
which argues that climate change is a myth
and no species are at risk.
This proves that modern conservatives
really do honour traditional values.
-- John Oughton
About John
Born in Guelph, Ontario. Educated at York University (BA, MA in English) and later at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where I worked with Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, William Burroughs, and Robert Duncan. A traveller, I have...
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Causes John Oughton Supports
PEN International, Amnesty International, League of Canadian Poets, POR AMOR, Greenpeace
John’s Favorite Books
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
The Club Dumas.
The Name of the Rose.
Collected Poems of WB Yeats.
Ulysses by James Joyce
Lord of the Rings.
Gravity...








