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TCS: Notes from the Field
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: TRANSFORMATION
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD What’s in a name? Names are a symbol for who we are, but sometimes a birth name can feel like a once-warm coat we’ve outgrown: a little shabby, and tight in all the wrong places. So … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged African American poets, Black History Month, Ntozake Shange, Transformation, Yusef Komunyakaa
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TCS: Spaghetti Westerns – Danish Style?
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 Movies, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Clint Eastwood, Ennio Morricone, For a Few Dollars More, Once Upon a Time in the West, Spaghetti Westerns - Danish Style?, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Tom Hanks
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Word Cloud: CONVERSATION
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD There is a strong tradition of women in America being involved in social justice movements. The Abolitionist, Women’s Rights and Civil Rights movements all have notable women in their histories. So it should be no surprise … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged African American women, Black History Month, Conversation, Gwendolyn Brooks, Natasha Trethewey, Nikki Finney, Nikki Giovanni, Robin Coste Lewis
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A Poem for Valentine’s Day
Sonnet for the 14th of February by Thomas Hood No popular respect will I omit To do thee honor on this happy day, When every loyal lover tasks his wit His simple truth in studious rhymes to pay, And to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged English Poets, Sonnet for the 14th of February, Thomas Hood, Valentine's Day
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Word Cloud: DREAM
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD February is Black History Month in the United States. When Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous speech, “I Have a Dream,” in 1963, he wasn’t the first African-American to talk about a dream for a … Continue reading
Poem for Black History Month
I, Too by Langston Hughes I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Poetry
Tagged Black History Month, Harlem Renaissance, I Too, Langston Hughes
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Word Cloud: CUMULATION
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD It’s not easy to sum up a person’s life. No one is just one thing, and no one stays the same from one year to the next, especially when a single event can radically alter someone’s … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Theatre, Word Cloud
Tagged Caribbean, Cumulation, Derek Walcott, Nobel Prize for Literature, Robert Lowell, Saint Lucia, T.S. Eliot Prize
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TCS: A Virtual Burns Night Supper
Good Morning! A silver tumbler for a wee dram – So “take a cup of kindness yet” and join in! ___________________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Burns Night Supper, Haggis, Robert Burns, Scotland, TCS, Whisky
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