The Naming of Cats can discover—but THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. In "Cats", "The Naming of Cats" is the second song of the musical. The Naming of Cats is a slow, eerie song which breaks the fourth wall, acknowledging the audience and explaining to them how cats are given their names, all through unison, quietly whispering, but also fiercely hissing, in rhythmic dialogue from the full company. In the 1976 movie "Logan's Run" actor Peter Ustinov recites a shortened version of the poem. The Naming of Cats "The Naming of Cats" is a poem in T. S. Eliot's poetry book "Old
Skanky Possum Waldman, Kristin Prevallet and Sotere Torregian "Skanky Possum" ceased publication in 2012. The editors of the magazine continue to run a reading series in their new home in Toronto. Thurston Moore of the band Sonic Youth sent the magazine a fan letter. Skanky Possum Skanky Possum was a twice-a-year poetry journal and small book-publishing imprint begun in Austin, Texas and associated with a long-running, home-based poetry reading series. It existed between 1998 and 2012. "Skanky Possum" was first published in Fall 1998. Curated by Hoa Nguyen and her husband, Dale Smith, the imprint published American poetry, featuring both well known