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Word Cloud: MAYTIME (Redux)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Welcome to the third installment of the darling bards of May (with apologies to Shakespeare). As you might expect, most of the poets are English and American, but we do have one of the most famous Italian poets, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Adrienne Rich, Alexander Pope and Robert Creeley, Dante Alighieri, Jane Kenyon and Sheila Wingfield, Lars Gustafsson, Mary Biddinger, Maytime, Thomas Hood
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ON THIS DAY: May 23, 2019
May 23rd is National Lucky Penny Day World Turtle Day * National Taffy Day * UN International Day to End Obstetric Fistula * _______________________________________ MORE! Margaret Fuller, Joe Slovo and Cora Sadosky, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Cora Sadosky, Girolamo Savonarola, Joe Slovo, Kʼinich Kan Bahlam II, Margaret Fuller, Rejoice Thizwilondi Mabudafhazi
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ON THIS DAY: May 22, 2019
May 22nd is U.S. National Maritime Day * Sherlock Holmes Day * U.S. Colored Troops Day * Vanilla Pudding Day World Goth Day * Buy a Musical Instrument Day International Day for Biological Diversity * ______________________________________ MORE! Amalia Lindegren, Hergé … Continue reading
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Amalia Lindegren, Hergé, Mungo Park, Peter Matthiessen, Ram Mohan Roy, Rita Cetina Gutiérrez, Stacey Abrams
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ON THIS DAY: May 21, 2019
May 21st is American Red Cross Founder’s Day * National Memo Day National Waitstaff Day Strawberries and Cream Day World Day for Cultural Diversity, for Dialogue and Development * ______________________________________ MORE! Mary Anning, Fats Waller and Vicki Ruiz, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Andrei Sakharov, Fats Waller, Haleh Afshar, Mary Anning, Regina M Anderson, Roald Amundsen, Vicki L Ruiz
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ON THIS DAY: May 20, 2019
May 20th is Eliza Doolittle Day * National Rescue Dog Day Pick Strawberries Day World Weights & Measures Day * World Bee Day * World Autoimmune Arthritis Day ______________________________________ MORE! Anton Janša, Cher and Alex Salmon, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Adela Rogers St. Johns, Alex Salmon, Anton Janša, Cher, Florence Zerffi, John Stuart Mill, Maria Liberia Peters
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TCS: The Bee-Loud Glade – poems for World Bee Day
. . 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 to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Carol Ann Duffy, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rumi, TCS, William Butler Yeats, William Shakespeare
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ON THIS DAY: May 19, 2019
May 19th is May Ray Day Devil’s Food Cake Day Hepatitis Testing Day National Scooter Day Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day ______________________________________ MORE! Nellie Melba, Ho Chi Minh and Ruth Ella Moore, click
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Tagged Ho Chi Minh, Lorraine Hansberry, Malcolm X, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nellie Melba, Ruth Ella Moore, Tina Strobos
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ON THIS DAY: May 18, 2019
May 18th is Cheese Soufflé Day No Dirty Dishes Day International Museum Day * National Visit Your Relatives Day World HIV Vaccine Awareness Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Gertrude Käsebier, Frank Capra and Irene Hunt, click
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Tagged Amina Ali Darsha Nkeki, Frank Capra, Gertrude Käsebier, Irene Hunt, Omar Khayyam, Tina Fey, Walter Sisulu
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Word Cloud: MAYBLOOMS (Redux)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD This is the second in our series of May poets — and it’s almost ‘Too Many Poets” — seventeen poets. There are probably even more, but these have either published in English, or had their poems translated into … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Simic Joy Harjo and Jane Cortez, Darwin T. Turner and Angela O. Carter, Edward Kamau Brathwaite and Rose Ausländer, Edward Lear Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Rosellen Brown, Fenton Johnson and Archibald MacLeish, Gary Snyder Lucian Blaga and Mona Van Duyn, Robert Browning and Rabindranath Tagore
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