The Bronx

====Poetry====
In poetry, the Bronx has been immortalized by one of the world's shortest [[couplet]]s:
<poem style="margin-left: 2em;">The Bronx?
No Thonx
: [[Ogden Nash]], ''[[The New Yorker]]'', 1931</poem>

Nash repented 33 years after his [[calumny]], penning the following poem to the dean of faculty at [[Bronx Community College]] in 1964:<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]
 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/27/archives/contrite-poet-gives-a-cheer-for-bronx-on-golden-jubilee.html
 |title=Contrite Poet Gives A Cheer for Bronx On Golden Jubilee
 |date=May 27, 1964}}</ref>
<poem style="margin-left: 2em;">
I wrote those lines, "The Bronx? No thonx";
I shudder to confess them.

Now I'm an older, wiser man
I cry, "The Bronx? God bless them!"<ref name="thonx" /></poem>

In 2016, W. R. Rodriguez published ''Bronx Trilogy''—consisting of ''the shoe shine parlor poems et al.'', ''concrete pastures of the beautiful bronx'', and ''from the banks of brook avenue''. The trilogy celebrates Bronx people, places, and events. [[DeWitt Clinton High School]], [[St. Mary's Park (Bronx)|St. Mary's Park]], and Brook Avenue are a few of the schools, parks, and streets Rodriguez uses as subjects for his poems.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/wr-rodriguez/banks-brook-avenue/|title=From the Banks of Brook Avenue by W.R. Rodriguez |website=Kirkusreviews.com|access-date=August 26, 2017}}</ref>

Nash's couplet "The Bronx? No Thonx" and his subsequent blessing are mentioned in ''Bronx Accent: A Literary and Pictorial History of the Borough'', edited by Lloyd Ultan and Barbara Unger and published in 2000. The book, which includes the work of Yiddish poets, offers a selection from [[Allen Ginsberg]]'s ''[[Kaddish (poem)|Kaddish]]'', as his Aunt Elanor and his mother, Naomi, lived near Woodlawn Cemetery. Also featured is Ruth Lisa Schecther's poem, "Bronx", which is described as a celebration of the borough's landmarks. There is a selection of works from poets such as [[Sandra María Esteves]], [[Milton Kessler]], Joan Murray, W. R. Rodriguez, Myra Shapiro, Gayl Teller, and [[Terence Winch|Terence Wynch]].<ref>{{cite book | last1=Ultan | first1=Lloyd | author1-link=Lloyd Ultan (historian) | last2=Unger | first2=Barbara | title=Bronx Accent: A Literary and Pictorial History of the Borough | publisher=Rutgers University Press | series=Rivergate Regionals Collection | year=2006 | isbn=978-0-8135-3862-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M2i8HAAACAAJ | access-date=August 2, 2017 }}</ref>

"Bronx Migrations" by Michelle M. Tokarczyk is a collection that spans five decades of Tokarczyk's life in the Bronx, from her exodus in 1962 to her return in search of her childhood tenement.<ref>{{cite book | last=Tokarczyk | first=M.M. | author-link=Michelle Tokarczyk | title=Bronx Migrations | publisher=Cherry Castle Publishing | year=2016 | isbn=978-0-692-73765-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KPO7DAEACAAJ | access-date=January 11, 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Daniels|first=Jim|url=https://workingclassstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/jwcs-vol-1-issue-1-december-2016-daniels.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://workingclassstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/jwcs-vol-1-issue-1-december-2016-daniels.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live |title=Tokarczyk, Michelle M. (2016) Bronx Migrations, Cherry Castle Publishing, Columbia, Md.|journal=Journal of Working-Class Studies|volume=1|issue=1|date=December 2016}}</ref>