Pig poetry updates – November, 2012
Here are some recent additions to the Best Loved Pig Poetry section of the Arnold Ziffel Memorial Library. Poets ask us to consider the pig in the context of nursery rhymes, morals, allegory and more.
Pig poetry updates – Spring, 2012
For Spring 2012, Porkopolis.org is pleased to announce a major poetry update to the Best Loved Pig Poetry section of the Library.
The gods watch all our planning
When they even bother, the gods’ orchestrations will trump the plans of both pigs and men; but at best we are usually just the soap operas that blunt their tedium.
Swineherds, grammar & social injustice
Here are photos from the second place winner in the Alexia Foundation’s 2010 student competition promoting photojournalism as an agent for change against social injustice.
“Swineherd: the salaried gypsy with a domestic mind” was submitted by Muhammad Murtada, a native of Bangladesh, and a third year photojournalism student at Pathshala, the South Asian Media Academy.
Pigs carried on the shoulders of swineherds…
Lovely Day for a Guinness! Join the pigs and me for one… Guinness for strength. Guinness is good for you.
Geocities Closes
In 1995 I became a Geocities homesteader. Pigs had been on my mind already for many years. And, because “pig” was probably the first word I typed into the first search engine I ever used, I knew pigs were under represented on the web. I was inspired to do something about that. My mission was clear and the concept of “Porkopolis” was born.
