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Tag Archives: American Poets
It’s Edgar Allan Poe Season
Here in North America we are all diving into the Halloween season with abandon this year in a vain effort to avoid the constant daily reminders of the slow motion demise of Democracy. Even without the the need to distract … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, Photography, USA, Writing
Tagged American Poets, Edgar Allan Poe, Louis Daguerre, The Tell-Tale Heart, Walt Whitman
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Acquainted with the night rain
Robert Frost 1928
The Power of Place
Wendell Berry and Annie Dillard: The Power of Place When Wendell Berry (August 31) and Annie Dillard (September 16) recently died we lost two significant voices who lifted up the power of creation. They were significant influences on my work … Continue reading
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Tagged American Poets, Annie Dillard, New York Times, Wendell Berry
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Everyone’s trying to figure out where to go next
THE CURRENT DILEMMA Kim Addonizio Everyone’s trying to figure out where to go next. California was good until some of it was swept into a furnace, the rest suspended next to a target over a carnival dunk tank. Nothing is … Continue reading
Sunday is NOT Monday Eve
. Italy has launched a huge new hiking trail crossing six of its regions , their version of the Camino de Santiago that traces the Saint’s walk across Italy and finishes in Assisi. I am the world’s least religious person, but … Continue reading
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Tagged American Poets, Assisi, Hugo Awards, Italy, Margaret Atwood, The Wizard of Oz
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Lately, the weather aches
TRULY PATHETIC Neal Bowers Lately, the weather aches; the air is short of breath, and morning stumbles in, stiff-jointed. Day by day, the sun bores the sky, until the moon begins its tiresome disappearing act, making the oceans yawn. Even … Continue reading
Eventide
Mary Ruefle erasure of Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” Carl Jung once wrote: “Thoroughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life; worse still, we take this step with the false assumption that our truths … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, USA, Writing
Tagged American Poets, Carl Jung, Mary Ruefle, Robert Frost
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