Comments for Don Marquis http://donmarquis.com Tall Tales and Light Verse Tue, 06 Aug 2019 02:20:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 Comment on The Don Marquis Double Scotch and Prohibition Society by A columnist on Don Marquis: ‘Too Few Have Read Him.’ | Don Marquis http://donmarquis.com/dsps/#comment-1233 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 02:20:03 +0000 http://donmarquis.com/?p=2480#comment-1233 […] Don Marquis DS&P Society […]

]]> Comment on archy protests by Another Archy Poem | Scripturient http://donmarquis.com/reading-room/archy-protests/#comment-693 Sun, 07 Jun 2015 22:18:51 +0000 http://donmarquis.com/?page_id=1628#comment-693 […] from readers, in a 1933 piece titled, “archy protests’ which I have copied from the  Donmarquis.com site, but which I came across again this weekend while reading The Best of Archy and […]

]]> Comment on A New Typewriter for Archy — 8 Feet Tall! by gmcneeley http://donmarquis.com/a-new-typewriter-for-archy-8-feet-tall/#comment-692 Sun, 07 Jun 2015 16:25:37 +0000 http://donmarquis.com/?p=1727#comment-692 dear boss they are celebrating me in boston where there are lots
of beans and i don t care what you think of beans they are my
fans up there and know what poetry means to the soul i only
wish i could join them but it would take days to walk up there and
i may not have enough in me this transmigration i just wish some
overfed columnist would hop a train up there on july twenty fifth
with me is his pocket or pants cuff hint hint
archy

]]> Comment on Archy and Mehitabel by Giant typewriter sculpture coming to the Greenway | Local National News http://donmarquis.com/archy-and-mehitabel/#comment-691 Fri, 29 May 2015 00:34:47 +0000 http://donmarquis.com/?page_id=11#comment-691 […] concept for the giant typewriter derived from a New York Evening Sun column that ran in the 1920s, called Archy and Mehitabel . It featured a poet who was reincarnated as a cockroach and wrote about his adventures with his […]

]]> Comment on Don’s Baked Beans by bibliopup http://donmarquis.com/dons-baked-beans-2/#comment-690 Sun, 24 May 2015 16:33:44 +0000 http://donmarquis.com/?p=1369#comment-690 Looks like a good recipe! Thank you for sharing.

]]> Comment on Archy and Mehitabel by The bad and the ugly | Antilles Adventure http://donmarquis.com/archy-and-mehitabel/#comment-251 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 03:09:43 +0000 http://donmarquis.com/?page_id=11#comment-251 […] We’ve had a bit of an infestation. Being a fan of Archy and Mehitabel I was tolerant of them to begin with. But when you find several inside a packet of pasta, it’s […]

]]> Comment on Welcome to the New DonMarquis.com by gmcneeley http://donmarquis.com/retolled-web-site-coming-soon/#comment-247 Sun, 17 Aug 2014 16:21:42 +0000 http://donmarquis.com/?p=108#comment-247 John,
I’ve had fun on your site today. I especially enjoy your blog. So much of Don’s I haven’t read. I’m preparing for a show at James Madison U. Pulling all the pieces together in an order that makes sense. My newest thought is to have Don as the narrator instead of me. What are you thoughts on that?
More Anon,
Gale

]]> Comment on Archy and Mehitabel by Birthday, Schmirthday. | The San Francisco Scene--Seen! http://donmarquis.com/archy-and-mehitabel/#comment-244 Tue, 10 Jun 2014 07:08:41 +0000 http://donmarquis.com/?page_id=11#comment-244 […] with that homage to-slash-borderline plagiarism of Don Marquis (archy and mehitabel) out of the way, I can gripe about my […]

]]> Comment on The Old Soak by Behind the Mantel: Yellowed, torn paper from 1928 about “The Old Soak” : Expedition Erie http://donmarquis.com/the-old-soak/#comment-237 Sat, 12 Apr 2014 02:02:41 +0000 http://donmarquis.com/?page_id=14#comment-237 […] I looked up “The Old Soak.” It deals with prohibition. Don Marquis introduced Old Soak stories beginning in 1914 in his Sun Dial column, later in Broadway and then in film. A nice history of this play can be found at http://donmarquis.com/the-old-soak. […]

]]> Comment on Archy and Mehitabel by In review: The Talisker Players’ Bestiary | Schmopera http://donmarquis.com/archy-and-mehitabel/#comment-235 Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:54:25 +0000 http://donmarquis.com/?page_id=11#comment-235 […] and string trio. The text is by Don Marquis, the guy who wrote the series of newspaper columns archy and mehitabel starting in 1916. Archy is a cockroach who writes poetry on a typewriter too big for him; he types […]

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