Poetry News

Obama offers advice on how to use poetry to woo the ladies

Originally Published: March 03, 2011

Yesterday, while bestowing the National Medal of Arts and Humanities on 20 artists (including Donald Hall and Wendel Berry), President Obama let slip his secret socialist/fascist plot to take over the brains of all women via linguistic dexterity:

"We also remember the art that challenged our assumptions; the scholarship that brought us closer to the events of our history; the poetry that we loved -- or at least the poetry that we might recite to a girlfriend to seem deep. Of course, we still hum the great songs by the musicians in this room -- songs that in many cases have been the soundtrack of our lives over decades."

Full story at ABC news.