We’ll have a full wrap-up here tomorrow on all the serious fun that was our 2015 Poetry at Work Day celebration. But today we want to put the spotlight on one warm and woolly fellow who faithfully tweeted poems from work all day long. Mark the Mammoth is the mascot of the Chemung County Historical Society in Elmira, NY. It somehow does not surprise us that Elmira was a town Mark Twain spent more than little time in.
Enjoy the work of up and coming poet Mark the Mammoth. (And cross your fingers he doesn’t get into too much trouble with his boss for writing poems instead of doing his usual mammoth duties for the day.)
Photo by Rob Pongsajapan, Creative Commons license via Flickr.
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L. L. Barkat says
I do believe there is a poet-to-be behind the mammoth. These were so fun. Some even oddly poignant. Mark the Mammoth made my Poetry at Work Day! 🙂
Mark the Mammoth says
Thank you so much for this! I’m incredibly touched that you enjoyed my poems! Sign me up for next time.
Love,
Mark the Mammoth
Maureen Doallas says
Oh, what fun! So happy you joined in the celebration.
Children would love a book of rhymes featuring a mammoth.
Elizabeth Marshall says
Mark, hope to see you around here more than once a year. Your poetry is delightful. Come play with words again soon. You bring good things to the poetry party.
Jody Lee Collins says
My, oh my, animal acts, too! You people leave no stone unturned….
L.L. Barkat says
Ha 🙂