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Word Cloud: CEREMONY
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I’m continuing this week with poets from different tribal backgrounds in honor of Native American Heritage Month. Alienation is a common theme in the work of Native Americans, who frequently begin life speaking their people’s language, … Continue reading
Word Cloud: HERITAGE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD November is Native American Heritage Month in the United States. Unfortunately, it seems to get scant attention, and far too many Americans know very little about the First Peoples of this hemisphere. Try to imagine that … Continue reading
Word Cloud: WITCH
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Witch . . . There’s a long and often tragic history attached to that word. In our enlightened 21st century Western culture, it’s more likely to be used as a somewhat more polite euphemism for that … Continue reading
Word Cloud: DARKNESS
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD The pages of our calendars are flying off like autumn leaves. To the delight of children, we are nearing that annual candy-scavenge in America: Halloween. Our celebrations of the eerie and macabre are pretty bland compared to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Darkness, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emily Dickinson, Hughes Mearns, Maurice Kilwein Guevara, Robert Frost, Walter de la Mare, Yusef Komunyakaa
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Word Cloud: GATHERER
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD 92 years is a good long life. Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977) began life in the Victorian Age, and lived through three-quarters of the 20th century. Theodore Roosevelt published Hunting Trips of a Ranchman the year Untermeyer was born. He was … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, House Committee on Un-American Activities, Louis Untermeyer, Poetry Anthologies, Poetry Society of America, Robert Frost, The Seven Arts magazine, What's My Line?
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Word Cloud: WELLSPRING
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD The High Holy Days of Judaism begin with Erev Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year’s Eve, and conclude on Yom Kippur, the ‘Day of Atonement.’ Since the Jewish Calendar is based on the cycle of the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Gates of Prayer, Letter to the Front, Muriel Rukeyser, Rosh Hashanah, Scottsboro Boys, Spanish Civil War, Wellspring, Yom Kippur
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Word Cloud: OUTSIDER
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Recognition. A word that can mean someone’s work has been honored, ‘recognized’ for excellence, but also can mean that moment when a person feels a lighting strike of connection to an artist’s work, whatever the media … Continue reading
Word Cloud: WHIRLIGIG
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD What is one to make of Hilaire Beloc (1870-1953)? A man of so many contradictions he seems like a human whirligig. Anti-German and Anti-Semitic. Combative and intolerant in his philosophical and political writings, but whimsical and amusing in … Continue reading
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Tagged A Bad Child’s Book of Beasts, A Moral Alphabet, Cautionary Tales for Children, G.K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, Hilaire Beloc, Whirligig
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Word Cloud: ECSTASY
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD If you look up “complex” in the dictionary, you may find a picture of H.D. (1886-1961). Since most Americans and many people in the rest of the world have not had “the benefit of a Classical education,” … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Bryher, Circe, Claudia Homonoea, Ezra Pound, H.D., Helen of Troy, Hilda Dolittle, Richard Aldington
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