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Word Cloud: EXILE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) was born as Iosif Alexandrochich Brodsky, in Leningrad, on May 24, 1940. He left school at the age of fifteen, taking jobs in a morgue, a mill, a ship’s boiler room, and on … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged American Poetry and Literacy Project, Andrew Carroll, Anna Akhmatova, Exile, Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Prize for Literature, Soviet Union, U.S. Poet Laureate
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TCS: Why Shakespeare?
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 add a … Continue reading
Word Cloud: EVER-AFTER
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Next week I’ll be back, hard at work, but my husband and I are still on Part 35 of our Never-Ending Honeymoon for a few more days. I leave for you two poems. I wrote the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Azure Starry Night Cracker Butterfly, Ever-After, Patrick Stewart, Sonnet 116, William Shakespeare
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Word Cloud: LOVE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD This will be short and I hope sweet. I’m pressed for time because my husband and I are about to leave on our Never-Ending Honeymoon, Part 35. When we got married, we were only able to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Ann Gray, Anniversary, e.e. cummings, Eskimo, Flowers, Love, Thomas Moore, Yuefu of the Han Dynasty
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TCS: Lend Me Your EARS – Part One – Shakespeare’s Songs and Poetry
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 add a … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop, Theatre
Tagged Akala Raps Shakespeare, Al Pacino, Lend Me Your EARS, Philippe Sly sings Roger Quilter, Shakespeare's songs, TCS, The Hip Hop Shakespeare Company
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Word Cloud: WORD-WARRIOR
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Looking up a word in another language is often a doorway into the past of its speakers. When I did a search for the Maori word for “warrior,” the answers were far more than just words: … Continue reading
TCS: Shakespeare’s Mysterious Offstage Life
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 add a … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Anne Hathaway, Christopher Marlowe, Othello, Sonnets, TCS, The Tempest, Troilus and Cressida, William Shakespeare
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Word Cloud: EVERYDAY
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I wrote this poem after opening my copy of For the Sleepwalkers to begin work on an earlier, shorter version of this profile, which I originally published at another website. There was still a faint smokiness in the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged A Penny Patron of The Arts, Edward Hirsch, Everyday, For the Sleepwalkers, Poet’s Choice, Rainer Maria Rilke, Simone Weil, The Washington Post
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TCS: Shakespeare, April and The Firebird
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 add a … Continue reading
Posted in National Poetry Month, Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged April, Igor Stravinsky, Sonnets, TCS, Wedding, William Shakespeare
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