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Word Cloud: FABLES
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD ONCE UPON A TIME, in a country so big that it stretched for many miles, all the way between two oceans, a woman wrote a poem. This poem was put in the base of a statue … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Immigration, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Anti-Semitism, Emma Lazarus, Fables, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, New York City, The New Colossus
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A Poem for Fathers’ Day
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged A Poem for Fathers' Day, Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, Robert Hayden, Those Winter Days
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Word Cloud: SUMMER-LONG
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD While Memorial Day has become the unofficial start of summer for Americans, the actual start of the season here in the Northern Hemisphere is the Summer Solstice. The Solstice this year began at 6:07 AM, U.S. … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged John Koethe, Lynda Hull, Mary Oliver, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Sara Teasdale, Stacie Cassarino, Summer-long
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Word Cloud: IMAGINATIVE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Susan Elizabeth Howe (1949 – ) uses her middle name attempting avoid being confused with the other poet named Susan Howe (1937 – ), who is better known, and being older, has won more awards. Having a fairly … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Brigham Young University, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Imaginative, Mormon, Susan Elizabeth Howe, Turkeys and Grackles, Utah
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Word Cloud: FUN
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Whenever I do a column centered around a theme, like a holiday or a season of the year, instead of focusing on a specific author, I am confronted with reams of truly awful poetry written for … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Caldecott Honor Books, Fun, Joyce Sidman, Newbery Honor Books, Poems about Animals, Poems for Children, Porcupette
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A Poem for World Turtle Day
by Mary Oliver: The Turtle breaks from the blue-black skin of the water, dragging her shell with its mossy scutes across the shallows and through the rushes and over the mudflats, to the uprise, to the yellow sand, to dig … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Poetry
Tagged Endangered Species, Mary Oliver, National Book Award for Poetry, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, The Turtle, World Turtle Day
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Word Cloud: GUILT
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Last week’s Word Cloud was about Tracy K. Smith, the current U.S. Poet Laureate, and a previous winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. This year’s Pulitzer Prize in Poetry winner, Frank Bidart, was also mentioned. Sadly, Frank … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged "Ellen West", Bollingen Prize in American Poetry, Frank Bidart, Guilt, Herbert White, Louise Glück, National Book Award in Poetry, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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A Poem for Mother’s Day
Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons by Diane Wakowski The relief of putting your fingers on the keyboard, as if you were walking on the beach and found a diamond as big as a shoe; as if you had just … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Poetry
Tagged Diane Wakoski, Emerald Ice, Mothers Day, Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
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