because he thought I would learn a lesson about staying away from effortful drudgery, and I learned exactly the opposite lesson, that most of those people led modest lives, virtuous lives. Those people were substantial and modest in ways that I try to emulate."This Failure."
[by Paul Hunter]
from PBS: Newshour: Hunter Discusses Reshaping 'Shopworn' Language
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The poem also describes how we might contribute to that great melting pot that is the English language, that, for many of us who have come from different countries, our difficulties with American idioms often lead to unexpected syntactic constructions and surprising turns of phrase which enrich the language and by which we all are enriched.'Immigrant Picnic'
[by Gregory Djanikian]
from PBS: Newshour: Poet Celebrates Family Picnics and 'Great Melting Pot' of Language
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