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Tag Archives: American Poets
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
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Tagged American Poets, Carl Jung, Mary Ruefle, Robert Frost
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your one wild and precious life
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver’s life and career are explored in the new documentary Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World, directed by Sasha Waters. Deadline reported that the film has opened at IFC Center in New York City and … Continue reading
First Book of Jazz
When I was in the 7th grade, my wonderful English teacher—shout out to Mrs. Fine—introduced me to the poetry of Langston Hughes. I was immediately hooked. Somehow I never knew until recently about his marvelous introduction to jazz that he … Continue reading
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Tagged American Poets, Children's literature, Jazz, Langston Hughes
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