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TCS: One Little Room an Everywhere – Life in a Plague Year
. .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. __________________________________ … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Ada Limón, Billy Collins, Carol Ann Duffy, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Donne, Joy Harjo, One Little Room an Everywhere – Life in a Plague Year, TCS
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Word Cloud: SARDONIC
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD “Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.” “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.” “I hate writing, I love having written.” “By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and … Continue reading
TCS: You Breathe in Two Countries – Separation in a Plague Year
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Tagged Carol Ann Duffy, Naomi Shihab Nye, Pablo Neruda, Separation in a Plague Year, TCS, W.S. Merwin, You Breathe in Two Countries
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Poem for Easter Sunday in a Plague Year
Lourdes Casal (1938-1981) was born in Cuba. She became an American citizen in 1962. She was an American poet and critic. She was also an organizer and activist, and earned a PhD in social work (1975). Casal was internationally known … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Casa de las Américas Prize, Cuba, Lourdes Casal, Poem for Easter Sunday in a Plague Year
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Word Cloud: BUTTERFLY
reposted in honor of National Poetry Month by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I’m sure you’ve been longing to know how I choose my subjects each week. It’s different every time, but this week will give you an idea. At the beginning of April, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged April, Butterfly, Louise Glück, National Book Award for Poetry, National Poetry Month, U.S. Poet Laureate
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TCS: No Ordinary Time
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Posted in Emily Dickinson, Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Emily Dickinson, Laura Kelly Fanucci, Mary Latter, No Ordinary Time, TCS, Tim Dlugos
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Word Cloud: DISINHERITED
Republished in honor of National Poetry Month by NONA BLYTH CLOUD In pursuit of poetic history for National Poetry Month, I’ve dipped into the dusty past to look at a poet who was once an international figure in literary circles, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, California Gold Rush, Disinherited, Edwin Markham, The Man With a Hoe, Thomas Lake Harris
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TCS: Adventures in Hunter-Gathering in the Electronic Age
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Tagged Adventures in Hunter-Gathering in the Electronic Age, Coronavirus, Janet McAdams, Jared Diamond, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Neil Gaiman, stay-at-home, TCS
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A Poem for Weed Appreciation Day
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was born in Maine, graduated from Vassar College in 1917, and became a well-known poet and playwright, with a strong feminist style. She was the third woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1923, … Continue reading
Word Cloud: ECSTASY
reposted in honor of Women’s History Month by NONA BLYTH CLOUD If you look up “complex” in the dictionary, you may find a picture of H.D. (1886-1961). Since most Americans and many people in the rest of the world have not … Continue reading
Posted in History, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Bryher (Annie W Ellerman), Ecstasy, Ezra Pound, Greek and Roman Mythology, H.D. (Hilda Dolittle), Imagist, World War I
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