Tag Archives: National Book Award

TCS: Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey

Posted on August 3, 2020 by wordcloud9

. . Good Morning!      __________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early riserson Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum,so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole inyour brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading →

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Mary Oliver (1935-2019)

Posted on January 25, 2019 by wordcloud9

by Nona Blyth Cloud Wikipedia tries to sum her up: Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American  poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 2007 The New York Times described her as “far and away, this country’s … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: GALAXY

Posted on November 18, 2016 by wordcloud9

One of the glue dots that has held my marriage together, aside from both of us NOT being Morning People, is that neither one of us can pass by a bookstore – if there’s a sale table, we may only … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: DEEP

Posted on July 8, 2016 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Some poetry is bold and LOUD. Some poetry is full of  SymbØli℠. Some poetry is full of RAGE, or Sorrow or Pain. William Stafford (1914–1993) wrote poems in a soft-spoken voice, poems that seem direct and simple, but … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: ILLUMINATOR

Posted on March 18, 2016 by wordcloud9

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 →

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Word Cloud: EMIGRANT

Posted on March 11, 2016 by wordcloud9

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 →

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Word Cloud: CALL-AND-RESPONSE

Posted on February 26, 2016 by wordcloud9

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 →

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