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What His Nature Demands: Three Dutch Poets
By an odd coincidence, June 10th is the birthday of three very different Dutch poets: Henri Bruning (1900-1983), writer and poet, who was sympathetic to fascism and anti-semitism, and became a favored member of the Germanic SS in the Netherlands, … Continue reading
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Tagged Henri Bruning, Jacques Perk, Louis Couperus, Three Dutch Poets, What His Nature Demands, Willow and Poplar
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TCS: Scattershot Confrontations in a Plague Year
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Tagged Elie Wiesel, Fabbio Doplicher, Heather McHugh, Ian Willey, Ilya Kaminsky, Jim Haba, Joan Dobbie, TCS: Scattershot Confrontations in a Plague Year
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Word Cloud: SUBVERSIVE
NOTE: This was originally posted on September 9, 2015, and was reprinted September 21, 2018. It has been re-formatted, but the message remains timely, without needing updating. Because the Power Seekers are always with us. by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Whenever … Continue reading
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Tagged Books for Young People, Buy Books, Freedom of the Press, Ingela Arrhenius, Power Seekers, Read Books, Shel Silverstein, Subversive
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TCS: Each Day Bears Witness – Riots in a Plague Year
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TCS: Beyond the Dark Horizon – Memorial Day in a Plague Year
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Tagged Emily Dickinson and Pablo Neruda, Helen Steiner Rice and Robert Frost, Kato Shuson and Edward Thomas, Marianne Boruch and Louise Bogan, Memorial Day in a Plague Year, TCS - Beyond the Dark Horizon, Walt Whitman and Joy Harjo
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A Poem for World Bee Day
Jo Shapcott (1953 – ) is an English poet, editor and lecturer. She won the National Poetry Competition in 1985 and 1991. Her collections include: Electroplating the Baby (1988), which won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Best First Collection, Phrase Book (1992), … Continue reading
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Fragments of a Life: Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) was born on this day, May 19. She was 34 years old when she died after a two-year fight with pancreatic cancer. She is remembered for her first play, A Raisin in the Sun, which opened on … Continue reading
TCS: Resilience During a Plague Year
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Tagged Ada Limón, Corrie Ten Boom, Edward Thomas, Maya Angelou, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rudyard Kipling, TCS: Resilience During a Plague Year, William Ernest Henley
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