Editor’s note: I’ve been asked to speak about TWER a fair amount recently and whenever I get around to the part about how awesome it is, how varied its content, I inevitably mention the work of Amorak Huey, a creative writing professor who wrote for TWER a poem about every game of Auburn’s 2010 season. […]
Leaves of Turf by Amorak Huey
Leaves of Turf: Ode on a Freakin’ Mustache
Editor’s note: I’ve been asked to speak about TWER a fair amount recently and whenever I get around to the part about how awesome it is, how varied its content, I inevitably mention the work of Amorak Huey, a creative writing professor who wrote for TWER a poem about every game of Auburn’s 2010 season. […]
Leaves Of Turf: He Might Be a Giant
After a season of turning to the giants of poetry for inspiration, Tuesday’s ruling on Cam Newton’s eligibility has a giddy Amorak looking for a something he can dance to, so he borrowed from a classic little number by They Might Be Giants.
Leaves Of Turf: Iron Bowl Poem That Ends With a Prediction
I hope to hear the Tide buzz – before it dies –
the silence in Bryant-Denny
will be the sweetest sound of all –
punctuated by the shouts of Cam.
Leaves Of Turf: To a Bulldog: On the Possibility of Running Over Him with an Orange and Blue Plow, November 2010
This week’s installment is in the manner of Robert Burns (Kodi’s Scottish great-great-great-great grandfather?).
Wee, sleek, cowering, timorous beast, O, what panic in your drool!
You need not woof and whine, As you flee the Plains.
We promise not to chase you
With our mighty offensive weapons.