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Word Cloud: GOLDEN (Redux)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD A poet with an MBA from the Stanford Business School who became a Vice President at General Foods and marketed Kool-Aid? Doesn’t sound very promising, does it? Even more damning, he’s written literary criticism, in books and … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged California Poet Laureate, Can Poetry Matter?, Dana Gioia, GOLDEN, National Endowment for the Arts, The Beach Boys
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TCS: A Roar of Wings – Poems for National Aviation Day
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Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Denise Duhamel and Bianca Stone, John Gillespie Magee Jr, Kenn Nesbitt, Robert Graves, Robinson Jeffers and Rudyard Kipling, Sara Teasdale, TCS A Roar of Wings Aviation Day, William Butler Yeats
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Word Cloud: WRATH (Revised and Revisited)
by Nona Blyth Cloud There are some poets who have a universal appeal, whose hauntingly beautiful words we turn to again and again for succor and an uplifting of spirit. Then there’s Diane Wakoski. “This book is dedicated to all … Continue reading
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Tagged Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch, Diane Wakoski, The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems, Wrath
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TCS: This Wonder of an Elephant – Poems for World Elephant Day
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Tagged D.H. Lawrence, David Attenborough, Hilaire Belloc, John Godfrey Saxe and Rumi, Sarah Lindsay and Patti Masterson, Susan Kinsolving, TCS - This Wonder of an Elephant, World Elephant Day
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WORD CLOUD: Afterimage (Redux)
Given the increasingly divisive rhetoric with which we are being bombarded in the U.S., and the resultant racial tension, mass shootings and other violence it inspires, I am reprising this profile of Audre Lorde, a writer whose work I find … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Afterimages, Audre Lorde, Black Dragonfish, Cancer, Homophobia, police murder, Racism, Sexism
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TCS: My Dog Practices Geometry – Poems for Work Like a Dog Day
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Tagged Billy Collins, Cathryn Essinger, David Baker, Linda Pastan, Mary Oliver, My Dog Practices Geometry, TCS, Ted Kooser
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Word Cloud: SUMMERFARE (redux)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Edward Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) was born on July 10th in London, England. In his youth, he was educated at London’s prestigious St Paul’s School. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a fellow student, and became his best friend. When … Continue reading
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Tagged Annual Midwest Clerihew Contest, Clerihews, E.C. Bentley, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, G.K. Chesterton, Trent’s Last Case
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TCS: Fearful Symmetry – Poems for International Tiger Day
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Tagged Diane Glancy, Fearful Symmetry, Hilaire Belloc, International Tiger Day, John W. Clark, Nael, TCS, William Blake
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Word Cloud: NONSENSE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD If we look behind the mask of Comedy, we will find the face of Tragedy. Laughter may be humanity’s greatest survival skill, a potent weapon against despair and the Unfairness of Life. Today, people in “industrialized … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged A Book of Nonsense, Alfred Tennyson, Edward Lear, Knowsley Hall, nonsense, Nonsense Songs, San Remo, The Owl and the Pussy Cat
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TCS: A Time Confused and With Few Clear Stars
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Tagged A Time Confused and With Few Clear Stars, Emma Lazarus, July 22 Birthdays, Stephen Vincent Benet, TCS, The Statue of Liberty, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Matthews
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