{"id":39474,"date":"2012-10-04T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=39474"},"modified":"2012-10-04T08:06:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T12:06:58","slug":"poetic-prescriptions-banished-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/04\/poetic-prescriptions-banished-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetic Prescriptions, Banished Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/poetry-by-prescription-008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-39475\" title=\"poetry by prescription\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/poetry-by-prescription-008-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/poetry-by-prescription-008-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/poetry-by-prescription-008.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Get a\u00a0prescription form from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/booksblog\/2012\/oct\/02\/national-poetry-day-william-sieghart-poetry-prescription?CMP=twt_gu\" target=\"_blank\">Poetry Pharmacy<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A poem <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2012\/10\/best-friends.html\" target=\"_blank\">written by Sylvia Plath as a college student has surfaced. <\/li>\n<li>This year\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thesmartset.com\/article\/article09171201.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cList of Words Banished from the Queen\u2019s English for Misuse, Overuse, and General Uselessness.\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookpatrol.net\/2012\/09\/orson-wells-on-his-long-time-very.html#.UGzVWmhygXe\" target=\"_blank\">Orson Welles and Hemingway<\/a> had a relationship. It was \u201cvery strange.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Mark Twain:\u00a0\u201cApparently, the Concord library has condemned Huck as \u2018trash and only suitable for the slums.\u2019 This will sell us another twenty-five thousand copies for sure!\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flavorwire.com\/333790\/famous-authors-funniest-responses-to-their-books-being-banned\" target=\"_blank\">Writers respond to having books banned.<\/a>\n<p>[tweetbutton]<\/p>\n<p>[facebook_ilike]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get a\u00a0prescription form from the Poetry Pharmacy. A poem written by Sylvia Plath as a college student has surfaced. This year\u2019s\u00a0\u201cList of Words Banished from the Queen\u2019s English for Misuse, Overuse, and General Uselessness.\u201d Orson Welles and Hemingway had a relationship. It was \u201cvery strange.\u201d Mark Twain:\u00a0\u201cApparently, the Concord library has condemned Huck as \u2018trash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[8837,571,1766,149,1470,8836,7723,2704],"class_list":["post-39474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-banned-books-month","tag-ernest-hemingway","tag-mark-twain","tag-news","tag-orson-welles","tag-poetry-pharmacy","tag-roundup","tag-sylvia-plath"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Poetic Prescriptions, Banished Words by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"October 4, 2012 \u2013 Get a\u00a0prescription form from the Poetry Pharmacy. 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