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RIP Donald Hall

Posted on June 26, 2018 by

Affirmation Donald Hall, 1928 – 2018 To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, … Continue reading →

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The Immigrants

Posted on May 30, 2018 by

The Immigrants: A Poem by Joe Napora  is based on a photograph of his immigrant father’s family. The chapbook was illustrated and letterpress printed in 1993 by Jim Lee for his Blue Moon Press in Glastonbury, Connecticut in an edition of 90 copies. The types are Jan Tschichold’s … Continue reading →

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The Kind of Books They Read

Posted on May 3, 2018 by

William Carlos Williams  

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Book Power

Posted on April 26, 2018 by

BOOK POWER by Gwendolyn Brooks BOOKS FEED AND CURE AND CHORTLE AND COLLIDE In all this willful world of thud and thump and thunder man’s relevance to books continues to declare. Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight … Continue reading →

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My First Memory of Librarians

Posted on April 15, 2018 by

A last tribute to libraries and librarians for National Library Week from the brilliant Nikki Giovanni. MY FIRST MEMORY (OF LIBRARIANS) This is my first memory: A big room with heavy wooden tables that sat on a creaky wood floor … Continue reading →

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April Is The Cruelest Month

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Through me forbidden voices

Posted on March 17, 2018 by

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, illustrator Rockwell Kent  

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There is no frigate like a book

Posted on March 6, 2018 by

There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears … Continue reading →

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Be On The Watch

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of seeking or finding

Posted on February 25, 2018 by

Talking about Walt Whitman this week with my friend L. sent we searching for a remembered short poem about the great man by another favorite writer Langston Hughes.  

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