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ON THIS DAY: April 13, 2019
April 13th is Make Lunch Count Day * Peach Cobbler Day Scrabble Day * Thomas Jefferson Day * _____________________________________ MORE! Nella Larsen, Samuel Beckett and Eudora Welty, click
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Tagged Amy Goodman, Eudora Welty, Garry Kasparov, Nella Larsen, Rae Armantrout, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney
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ON THIS DAY: April 12, 2019
April 12th is Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality Monument Day * D.E.A.R. Day * Polio Vaccine Day * Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day International Day for Street Children * International Day of Human Space Flight * _________________________________________ MORE! Zawgyi, Beverly Cleary and Yuri Gagarin, … Continue reading
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Tagged Beverly Cleary, Imogen Cunningham, Jim Gary, Lydia Cacho, Mukhran Machavariani, Yuri Gagarin, Zawgyi
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Word Cloud: EXTRAVAGANT (Redux for Poetry Month)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD There is just a breath of Purtianism lurking in most American poetry. We admire the winnowing of excess words, the spareness of poets like Frost and Sandburg and the prose of Hemingway and Steinbeck. American poets … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Extravagant, Middle East, Nizar Qabbani, Omar Khayyam, Syria, Thomas Gray, William Shakespeare
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ON THIS DAY: April 11, 2019
April 11th is Barbershop Quartet Day International “Louie Louie” Day * Cheese Fondue Day U.S. Submarine Day * World Parkinson’s Disease Day * ______________________________________ MORE! Christopher Smart, Misuzu Kaneko and Leo Rosten, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Christopher Smart, Dean Acheson, Jane Bolin, Johanna Elberskirchen, Leo Rosten, Mary White Ovington, Misuzu Kaneko
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ON THIS DAY: April 10, 2019
April 10th is Encourage a Young Writer Day * ASPCA Day * Golfer’s Day * International Safety Pin Day * International Siblings Day * National Farm Animals Day * ___________________________________ MORE! William Hazlett, Dolores Huerta and Nat King Cole, click
ON THIS DAY: April 9, 2019
April 9th is Appomattox Day * Jenkin’s Ear Day * Winston Churchill Day * Chinese Almond Cookie Day Cherish an Antique Day Chicken Little Awareness Day National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Emily Hobhouse, Paul Robeson … Continue reading
ON THIS DAY: April 8, 2019
April 8th is All is Ours Day Draw A Bird Day * Dog Fighting Awareness Day * National Empanada Day International Romani Day * Zoo Lovers Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Mozart, Pancha Carrasco and Ernest Childers, click
TCS: This Whole Experiment of Green
. . . Good Morning! ___________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged April is National Poetry Month, Charles Lamb . Carl Sandburg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emily Dickinson . Ada Limón, T.S. Eliot Ogden Nash, TCS, This Whole Experiment of Green, William Shakespeare
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ON THIS DAY: April 7, 2019
April 7th is Coffee Cake Day National Beer Day * International Beaver Day * International Snailpapers Day * World Health (Organization) Day * Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Rwanda Genocide * __________________________________ MORE! William Wordsworth, Gabriela Mistral … Continue reading
ON THIS DAY: April 6, 2019
April 6th is Army Day * Twinkie Day * New Beers Eve * National Tartan Day * National Teflon Day * National Student Athlete Day * International Day of Sport for Development and Peace __________________________________ MORE! Raphael, Celestina Cordero and … Continue reading
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