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Tag Archives: Poetry
Save Walt Whitman’s House
Walt Whitman, America’s most beloved poet, lived at 99 Ryerson Street in Brooklyn, New York when his world famous book Leaves of Grass was first published in 1855. Although the poet lived in more than 30 buildings in New York City … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Books, History, USA, Writing
Tagged Brooklyn, Leaves of Grass, Poetry, Walt Whitman
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RIP Donald Hall
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
The Immigrants
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
The Kind of Books They Read
William Carlos Williams
Book Power
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
Posted in Books, Libraries, USA, Writing
Tagged Children's literature, Gwendolyn Brooks, Poetry
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My First Memory of Librarians
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
Posted in Books, Libraries, USA, Writing
Tagged National Library Week, National Poetry Month, Nikki Giovanni, Poetry
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Through me forbidden voices
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, illustrator Rockwell Kent
Posted in Art, Books, USA, Writing
Tagged Leaves of Grass, Poetry, Rockwell Kent, Walt Whitman
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There is no frigate like a book
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
