2026-08-31 International Overdose Awareness Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-V | A Nice Shady Home (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        ……

        In the presto of the morning, Crispin trod,

        Each day, still curio

2026-08-30 National Beach Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-V | A Nice Shady Home (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        ……

        Was he to bray this in profoundest brass

        Arointing his dreams with fugal requiems?

2026-08-29 International Cosplay Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-V | A Nice Shady Home (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Crispin as hermit, pure and capable,

        Dwelt in the land. Perhaps if discontent

        H

2026-08-28 Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-IV | The Idea of a Colony (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        ……

        These bland excursions into time to come,

        Related in romance to bac

2026-08-27 Hungry Ghost Festival

【The Comedian As The Letter C-IV | The Idea of a Colony (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        ……

        Upon these premises propounding, he

        Projected a colony that should extend

&nb

2026-08-26 National Got Checked Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-IV | The Idea of a Colony (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Nota: his soil is man's intelligence.

        That's better. That's worth crossing seas to find.

2026-08-25 National Banana Split Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-III | Approaching Carolina (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        ……

        He came. The poetic hero without palms

        Or jugglery, without regalia.

&nb

2026-08-24 International Strange Music Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-III | Approaching Carolina (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        ……

        Thus he conceived his voyaging to be

        An up and down between two elemen

2026-08-23 National Sponge Cake Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-III | Approaching Carolina (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

……

How many poems he denied himself

In his observant progress, lesser things

Than the relentless contact he desired;

How many sea-masks he ignored; what sounds

He shut out from his tempering ear; what thoughts,

Like jades a

2026-08-22 National Bao Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-III | Approaching Carolina (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The book of moonlight is not written yet

        Nor half begun, but, when it is, leave room

       &nbs

2026-08-21 Hawaiian Shirt Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-II | Concerning the Thunderstorms of Yucatán (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        ……

        And while the torrent on the roof still droned

        He felt the A

2026-08-20 World Mosquito Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-II | Concerning the Thunderstorms of Yucatán (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        ……

        So much for that. The affectionate emigrant found

        A new real

2026-08-19 World Photography Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-II | Concerning the Thunderstorms of Yucatán (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        ……

        How greatly had he grown in his demesne,

        This auditor of

2026-08-18 National Fajita Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-II | Concerning the Thunderstorms of Yucatán (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        In Yucatan, the Maya sonneteers

        Of the Caribbean amphitheatre,

2026-08-17 National Nonprofit Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-I | The World without Imagination (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        ……

        Here was the veritable ding an sich, at last,

        Crispin confronting i

2026-08-16 National Authenticity Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-I | The World without Imagination (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        ……

        Could Crispin stem verboseness in the sea,

        The old age of a wate

2026-08-15 Chant at the Moon Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-I | The World without Imagination (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        ……

        One eats one pate, even of salt, quotha.

        It was not so much the lost terr

2026-08-14 National Financial Awareness Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-I | The World without Imagination (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

          Nota: Man is the intelligence of his soil,

        The sovereign ghost. As such, the Socrates

    &

2026-08-13 National Prosecco "Sparkling Wine" Day

【Lulu Morose (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            Is there a sharp edge?

            Is there a sharp edge?

        &

2026-08-11 Ingersoll "The Great Agnostic" Day

【Lulu Gay (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Lulu sang of barbarians before the eunuchs

        Of gobs, who called her orchidean,

        Sniffed her and slapped

2026-08-11 Annual Medical Checkup Day

【Romance for a Demoiselle Lying in the Grass (1919-1920?)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            It is grass.

            It is monotonous.

2026-08-10 National Lazy Day

【Anecdote of the Abnormal (1919-1920?)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        He called hydrangeas purple. And they were.

        Not fixed and deadly, (like a curving line

        That merely makes a

2026-08-09 National Book Lovers Day

【The Indigo Glass in the Grass (1919)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

Which is real—

This bottle of indigo glass in the grass,

Or the bench with the pot of geraniums, the stained mattress and the washed overalls drying in the sun?

Which of these truly contains the world?

Neither one, nor the two together.

—— •

2026-08-08 National Bowling Day

【Piano Practice at the Academy of the Holy Angels (1919)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

The time will come for these children, seated before their long black instruments, to strike the themes of love--

All of them, darkened by time, moved by they know not what, amending the airs they play to fulfill themselves;

Seate

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

       &nb

2026-08-06 National Gossip Day

【Peter Parasol (1919)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            Aux taureaux Dieu cornes donne

            Et sabots durs aux chevaux …

          &n

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,

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 ex

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!