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Word Cloud: GLANCE
by Nona Blyth Cloud I collect odd bits of historic detail and stray facts. I look for unlikely connections. Sometimes my mind wanders off in a completely new direction in the middle of a sentence, and what I started out … Continue reading
Word Cloud: UNORDINARY
by Nona Blyth Cloud The rarest, most daunting kind of poetry to write well is obvious yet original, and funny but profound, all at the same time. Typically, young poets start out writing poetry steeped in angst and tortured imagery, … Continue reading
Posted in Dogs, Humor, National Poetry Month, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Aging, Billy Collins, Ear Worms, Edwin Hubbel Chapin, U.S. Poet Laureate, Unordinary
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Word Cloud: INCURSION
by Nona Blyth Cloud In an interview in the Kenyon Review in 2103, the poet Solmaz Sharif was asked: What have you learned about the writing process in the last five years? “…I’m surprised to find that in addition to … Continue reading
Posted in Homeland Security, Iran, Poetry, Terrorism, United States, US Military, Word Cloud
Tagged Ahwazi Arab, Ethnic Cleansing, Incursion, Iran-Iraq War, National Poetry Month, Solmaz Sharif
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Word Cloud: BREATH
by Nona Blyth Cloud The element most essential to human life is air. If we can’t breathe, we die. Life outside the womb begins with a first inhale of air, and ends with a last exhale. We must have air … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged American Book Award, Breath, Joy Harjo, Mvskoke, Native American, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, Saxophone
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Word Cloud: ILLUMINATOR
by Nona Blyth Cloud There are writers who can “deliver the goods” but can’t explain how they create them. There are writers who can “talk a good game,” but whose actual work disappoints. But the writers who can do both … Continue reading
Word Cloud: EMIGRANT
by Nona Blyth Cloud Emigrant – a person who leaves their homeland. Lisel Neumann’s family left Germany in the mid-1930s, moving to Italy, and then France, because her father was a political dissident. By 1939, he had found work in … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Germany, Immigrants, Poetry, United States, Word Cloud, World War II
Tagged Claude Monet, Emigrant, Lisel Mueller, National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Word Cloud: MIGRANT
by Nona Blyth Cloud “Poetry is a call to action and it also is action. Sometimes we say, “This tragedy, it happened far away. I don’t know what to do. I’m concerned but I’m just dangling in space.” A poem can lead … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration, Mexico, Poetry, Terrorism, United States, Word Cloud
Tagged Charleston, Juan Felipe Herrera, migrant, Paris, US Poet Laureate
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Word Cloud: CALL-AND-RESPONSE
by Nona Blyth Cloud Call-and-response is one of the most ancient forms of human expression — in music, it is a phrase played by a musician or a group of musicians which is answered by another musician or group of … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Photography, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Art History, Black History, Call-and-Response, Gwendolyn Brooks, National Book Award, Oscar Wilde, Robin Coste Lewis
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Word Cloud: BELLTONGUE
by Nona Blyth Cloud A human being is made up of all the experiences of a lifetime — sometimes a few carelessly spoken words, long forgotten by the speaker, can change the course of the hearer’s life forever. I do not know if … Continue reading
Posted in Baha’i, Civil War, Poetry, Racism, United States, Word Cloud
Tagged Belltongue, Black History, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Robert Hayden
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