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THE SHAKESPEARE SYNDROME, SHAKEN & STIRRED
GAMECHANGERS: THE BIGGEST DEBUT SINGLES OF ALL TIME
Caedmon's Hymn: the First English Poem
Michael R. Burch Translation Notes, Methods, History, and Credits to Other Translators
It's Impossible! What happened in 1971 can never be repeated!
Commonsensical (and Sometimes Whimsical) Literary Criticism by Michael R. Burch
Michael R. Burch Reviews and Criticism
Michael R. Burch Bio and Curriculum Vitae
Have a very PAGAN Christmas, part XII
The 12 days of unintended Christmas songs, part XI
The silliest Christmas songs: The twelve days of Christmas, Part X
The best Christmas songs you probably forgot or maybe never heard, Part IX
The CONSENSUS best Beatles songs
I'm dreaming of a WHITE HOT christmas, Part VIII
The World's Greatest Poets by Region
The Twelve Days of a VERY Expensive Christmas, Part VII
Every Child is the Christ Child: The Twelve Days of Christmas, Part VI
The Best Christmas Songs: The Twelve Days of Christmas, Part V
Dark Christmas Poems: The Twelve Days of Christmas, Part IV
My First Christmas Carol: The Twelve Days of Christmas, Part III
My Favorite Christmas Poems: The Twelve Days of Christmas, Part II
Christmas Koalas: The Twelve Days of Christmas, Part I
Scrips, Scraps, Snaps and Snippets
The World's Greatest Poets: Concise Version
The World's Greatest Poems of All Time
Martin Mc Carthy, take THIS ... KAPOW!!!
The World's Greatest FEMALE Poets of All Time
The Rhapsodes: The World's Greatest Poets, Part IV
Oddballs, Outcasts & Unknowns: The World's Greatest Poets, Part III
The World's Greatest Poets: Part II
RANDOM RUMINATIONS ON CHRISTIANITY WHILE AWAITING THE APOCALYPSE
My most-read article to date: 1.3 million views and still climbing...
Unknown, Underknown and Underappreciated Poets
Divine China II: Female Chinese Poets
Things I'm thankful for, on Thanksgiving Day
"please do not think worsely of wee, ur elders..."
Of Men, Mice and Mincemeat (Me)
Millay Has Her Way with a Vassar Professor
Michael R. Burch poems written "for" and "after" Shakespeare
Did Shakespeare encode his name in Psalm 46, not once, but THREE TIMES?
Ancient Egyptian Harper's Songs
Deor's Lament and other Ancient Lamentations
Charles d'Orleans: Translations
Poetry: a Light in the Darkness
Let me bend the world to my will / though it resist still.
Antipater of Sidon: The Poet of Praise
Uyghur Poetry: the Art of Emancipation
THE GREATEST NOVELS OF ALL TIME
Now Skruketh Rose: Middle English Marvels
The First “Make Love, Not War” Poem
The Best Halloween Poems of All Time
Halloween Haiku and other Oddities
The Ancient Origins of Supernatural Poetry
Revenge of the Halloween Monsters
writing under the influence of e. e. cummings
Euthanasia: The Unalienable Right to Die
Did Lord Byron inspire Frankenstein?
I Have Now Officially Gone Post-Metal
Snubs Galore: The Top 200 Singers of All Time, according to Rolling Stone(d)
"These pert white picket fences"
Update of “A Litany in Time of Plague”
Why I "Left" the Religious Right
I'm not a gamer, but I'm in a game!
Of Brieflings and Brief Flings
WHO IS THE GREATEST LYRIC POET OF ALL TIME?
The best Sports Poems of Michael R. Burch
You can help younger poetry readers...
THE MOST-READ POETS OF ALL TIME
Nonsense Verse and Nun-sense Verse
Charles d'Orleans: The World's Greatest Love Poet?
The Crisis in Cosmology, Solved!
The World's Greatest Poets according to Google
What the heck is "poetic prose"?
Voices of Resilience: Afghan Girls Speak
Further Confessions of a Porn Poet
Purdy Please! and other Licentious Limericks
White Chorales and other Prayer Poems
The goriest story ever sold...
Mooning and Bemoaning the Moon
Poetry Contest Winners and Finalists
Love is her Belief and her Commandment
Love evoL: the EVOLution of LOVE
Rejection Slips or Editors' Slips Showing?
The Greatest Poets of All Time
Poetry's mafia-like "kiss of death"
Original Haiku by Michael R. Burch
My most popular articles on Quora
The Best Poets You Probably Never Heard Of, Part III
The Best Poets You Probably Never Heard Of, Part II
Renee Vivien: The Best Poets You Probably Never Heard Of, Part I
Song Lyrics: Poems Set to Music
THE ABSOLUTE WORST OF MICHAEL R. BURCH
Independence Day Poems and Songs
Beautiful Native American Women
And a Little Child Shall Lead Them
THE BIBLE’S DEEP, DARK, DIRTY SECRET
"The Hippopotami" and other Animal Poems
Jaun Elia: English Translations
Urdu Poetry in English Translations
English Translations of Spanish Poems
My unpublished early poems on THE NEW STYLUS
The Most Haunting Songs of All Time
Rolling Stone(d): The 500 Greatest Songs CORRECTED on a Song-for-Song Basis
Rolling Stone(d): The 500 Greatest Songs CORRECTED
The Best Country Songs & Artists
My best poems, according to Google...
Further Confessions of a Porn Poet
The Best Songs You Probably Never Heard (but now have no excuse!)
STUPENDOUS SNUBS: These are my MAJOR disagreements with Rolling Stone.
Marilyn Monroe: The Picture of Innocence
FAMOUS SINGERS WITH THE WORST VOICES
SORRY MOM! — HOW I ACCIDENTALLY BECAME A PORN POET
Rainer Maria Rilke: English Translations
Li Bai the Chinese Byron and Romantic Tippler
TENS: my best poems, per Google
Rock Poets: The Best Rock Lyrics of All Time
Haiku of the Masters: the "Big Four" expanded to a "Big Five"
The Best Vocal Performances of All Time
The Worst Song Lyrics of All Time
The 10 Best Songs in Rock History
NARRATIVE POETRY: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT WITH AI
The ten greatest NON-ENGLISH poems
NEGLECTED MASTERPIECES: THE GREATEST UNREAD POEMS
THE 10 MOST IMPORTANT SONGS IN ROCK HISTORY
The Little Boy with His Hands Up: The Children of the Holocaust
The Ten Greatest Poems in the English Language
Who are the World's greatest living Poets?
The Shijing or "Book of Songs"
THOSE MAGNIFICENT EVER-YOUNG POETS IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES
The Greatest Female Poets of All Time
WHERE IS JESUS IN ACTUAL HISTORY?
Nasir Kazmi English Translations
I'm going to be in a video game!
THE MOST SURREAL MOMENT OF MY LIFE
WHY I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN: I Read the Bible
There is no "Hell" in the Bible
Erotic Poems by the Courtesan Veronica Franco
Hiroshima survivor Kurihara Sadako: English Translations
THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS PROVE THE BIBLE WAS POLYTHEISTIC
Pulling god's Leg: Humorous Heretical Verse
Pablo Neruda: “Religion in the East”
English Translations of Scottish Poetry
Pablo Neruda in English Translations
Gopalakrishna Bharati Translation
Subramanya Bharathi Translations
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Translations
Random Ruminations while Awaiting the Trump Apocalypse
Ancient Greek Poetry Translations
The Erotic Poems of Ho Xuan Huong
W. S. Rendra: English Translations
Miklos Radnoti: Greatest of the Holocaust Poets?
Hildegard of Bingen: Mystic of the Divine Feminine
Holocaust Poem: "Ninety-Three Daughters of Israel"
The intensely touching Holocaust poems of Ber Horvitz
Did Lord Byron inspire Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein?
Robert Frost's "Directive" as Scathing Criticism of Mark 4:10-12
The Most Beautiful Medieval Poems
Stéphane Mallarmé Translations