Category Archives: Art

TCS: Roars and Silences – A Five-Poet Week

Posted on July 26, 2021 by wordcloud9

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Summer – Blowing Night Through an Alto Sax

Posted on July 24, 2021 by wordcloud9

Saundra Rose Maley, American educator, poet, and writer. She teaches at Montgomery College in Maryland. Maley is the author of Solitary Apprenticeship: James Wright and German Poetry; co-editor with Anne Wright of A Wild Perfection: The Selected Letters of James Wright: co-author of The … Continue reading →

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He Tells Her that the Earth is Flat

Posted on July 21, 2021 by wordcloud9

There are a growing number of people who give the same weight to opinions as they do to facts. And some of them can’t even see any difference between them. It’s disturbing, and dangerous, but also absurd, as Wendy Cope … Continue reading →

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TCS: To Honor Seneca Falls, Words That Could Only Be Written By Women

Posted on July 19, 2021 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! ______________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early riserson Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum,so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole inyour brainpan, feel free to add a comment. ______________________________ For I conclude that … Continue reading →

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A Poem by Mary Oliver

Posted on July 16, 2021 by wordcloud9

I don’t know about you, but I’m still trying to adjust to “the new reality” – the struggle to get to a post-Covid19 world. Because the pandemic isn’t over, although a lot of people are trying to pretend that it … Continue reading →

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Dark Fins Appear – Two Poems for Shark Awareness Day

Posted on July 14, 2021 by wordcloud9

Shark Awareness Day falls on July 14th annually. Sharks are one of the oldest species on the planet, with fossil records showing they were cruising our oceans at least 420 million years ago. Modern-day sharks have been around for about … Continue reading →

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TCS: Pablo Neruda – In Shadow or Light

Posted on July 12, 2021 by wordcloud9

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A Fortress from Self Pity: June Jordan and Fannie Lou Hamer

Posted on July 9, 2021 by wordcloud9

June Jordan (1936-2002) was born on July 9, 1936, in Harlem, New York, the only child of Jamaican immigrant parents. She was a poet, essayist, teacher, feminist, civil rights activist, and self-identified Bisexual. While the students at most of the schools … Continue reading →

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TCS: But Alien Still – The Question of Loyalty

Posted on July 5, 2021 by wordcloud9

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A Poem for the 4th of July

Posted on July 4, 2021 by wordcloud9

Jimmy Santiago Baca (1952 – ) was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, of Apache and Chicano ancestry. Abandoned by his parents, he ran away at 13 from the orphanage where his grandmother had placed him. Baca was convicted on drug … Continue reading →

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