I'm nearly certain that there was some humorous piece by FPA in one of my junior high or high school textbooks, mid-1960s. I'd be surprised if he's in today's texts.
Almost certainly not, but it's not personal. Almost all those old celebrated newspaper columnists are gone from memory. Nick Kenny, O.O. McIntyre, Edgar Guest, as recent as Don Marquis—newspapermen who wrote poems (and included them in their columns): Où sont les neiges d'antan?
I've fallen a little in love with Franklin P. Adams over the past year, as Sally Thomas can testify, having to suffer through my constant suggestion of using his comic light verses in our daily poetry selection. That's okay. I had to suffer from her similar recent engouement with Sara Teasdale, and FPA, as we in-the-know call him, is worth it.
I'm nearly certain that there was some humorous piece by FPA in one of my junior high or high school textbooks, mid-1960s. I'd be surprised if he's in today's texts.
Almost certainly not, but it's not personal. Almost all those old celebrated newspaper columnists are gone from memory. Nick Kenny, O.O. McIntyre, Edgar Guest, as recent as Don Marquis—newspapermen who wrote poems (and included them in their columns): Où sont les neiges d'antan?
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I've fallen a little in love with Franklin P. Adams over the past year, as Sally Thomas can testify, having to suffer through my constant suggestion of using his comic light verses in our daily poetry selection. That's okay. I had to suffer from her similar recent engouement with Sara Teasdale, and FPA, as we in-the-know call him, is worth it.