2026-08-07 International Beer Day

【Exposition of The Contents of A Cab (1919)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            Victoria Clementina, negress,

            Took seven white dogs

            To ride in a cab.

     &nbs

2026-08-06 National Gossip Day

【Peter Parasol (1919)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            Aux taureaux Dieu cornes donne

            Et sabots durs aux chevaux …

            To bulls God gives horns,

            And hard hooves to horses…

2026-08-04 National Night Out

【An Early Version of "Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks" (1918-1919?)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        In the land of the peacocks, the prince thereof,

        Grown weary of romantics, walked alone,

        In the first of evening, pondering.

2026-08-04 Single Working Women's Day

【Stanzas for "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle" (1918)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Poets of pimpernel, unlucky pimps

        Of pomp, in love and good ensample, see

        How I exhort her, huckstering my woe.

        "Oh, hideous, horrible, horrendous hocks!"

   &nb

2026-07-25 National Hot Fudge Sundae Day

【Stanza for "Le monocle de Mon Oncle" (1918)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        I peopled the dark park with gowns

        In which were yellow, rancid skeletons.

        On! How suave a purple passed me by!

        But twiddling mon idée, as old men will,