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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
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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
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Tagged Caldecott Honor Books, Fun, Joyce Sidman, Newbery Honor Books, Poems about Animals, Poems for Children, Porcupette
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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
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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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Word Cloud: CONVERGENCE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Writing a weekly column about poetry is sometimes frustrating. It’s a subject that so many people in my country find “irrelevant” to Modern Life. But if three contestants in this week’s Jeopardy! Teachers’ Tournament had been … Continue reading
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
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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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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
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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
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Tagged Ann Gray, Anniversary, e.e. cummings, Eskimo, Flowers, Love, Thomas Moore, Yuefu of the Han Dynasty
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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
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
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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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