From the Archive: I'll Be Home for Christmas Serves Up E. E. Cummings & Poetry Stereotypes in a Literal One-Horse Open Sleigh

This holiday season, let's get haunted by the ghosts of PopPoetry past.

Dec 21, 2022

I'll Be Home for Christmas' is the Real Yuletide MVP

This week, I’m revisiting another holiday-themed post from the PopPoetry archive. Next up is the bizarre and wonderful E. E. Cummings appearance in the Jonathan Taylor Thomas-led I’ll Be Home for Christmas (1998). Read the original post below!

Happy Holidays!

—Caitlin

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I'll Be Home for Christmas Serves Up E. E. Cummings & Poetry Stereotypes in a Literal One-Horse Open Sleigh

It’s almost 2021 (thank god) and I’ve got one more holiday treat for you before the ball drops. A friend invited me to a Zoom Present-a-Thon for her birthday recently, and it was very excellent. Each participant was tasked with creating a PowerPoint presentation on a topic of limited seriousness for no more than five minutes. There were impassioned defe…

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From the Archive: I'll Be Home for Christmas Serves Up E. E. Cummings & Poetry Stereotypes in a Literal One-Horse Open Sleigh

This holiday season, let's get haunted by the ghosts of PopPoetry past.

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