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Simon Shieh
Simon Shieh was born in Taiwan, and raised in upstate New York and Beijing. He attended high school in Beijing from 2007 to 2011 and earned a BA in English literature in the U.S. He competed as an amateur and professional
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Featured Poem
Act I
Pine-Sol
on the bathroom tiles
an offering to the wrong god.
Sometimes, I do not see him
5for days.
When he returns
a small bird
dead
in the toilet means
Poets Book of Days
May 20
On this day in 1609, Thomas Thorpe submitted Shakespeare's sonnets for publication. This first quarto edition appeared later the same year.
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Poetry Trivia
Question:
What poem that described an event in Crimean War was published within a month of that event?
Answer
Lord Alfred Tennyson's"The Charge of the Light Brigade."
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