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Word Cloud: DIGGER (Redux – National Poetry Month)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD April is a good month for poetry-lovers. Just a partial list of April’s birthdays includes: Edmond Rostand, Maya Angelou, Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Wordsworth, Louise Gluck, Charlotte Brontë, Robert Penn Warren, Walter del la Mare, Ted … Continue reading
Posted in Ireland, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Bog, Irish Elk, Myths and Legends, Nobel Prize for Literature, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Frederick Mason Sheard
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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
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
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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A Poem for the First Day of National Poetry Month
Some People Like Poetry by Wislawa Szymborska Some people— that means not everyone. Not even most of them, only a few. Not counting school, where you have to, and poets themselves, you might end up with something like two per … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Poland
Tagged April, Easter, National Poetry Month, Nobel Prize for Literature, Some People Like Poetry, Wislawa Szymborska
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Word Cloud: CUMULATION
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD It’s not easy to sum up a person’s life. No one is just one thing, and no one stays the same from one year to the next, especially when a single event can radically alter someone’s … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Theatre, Word Cloud
Tagged Caribbean, Cumulation, Derek Walcott, Nobel Prize for Literature, Robert Lowell, Saint Lucia, T.S. Eliot Prize
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Word Cloud: DIGGER
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD April is a good month for poetry-lovers. Just a partial list of April’s birthdays includes: Edmond Rostand, Maya Angelou, Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Wordsworth, Louise Gluck, Charlotte Brontë, Robert Penn Warren, Walter del la Mare, Ted … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged April Poets, Death of a Naturalist, Digger, Ireland, Nobel Prize for Literature, Opened Ground, Seamus Heaney, Seeing Things
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Word Cloud: TRANSLATION
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD The Nobel award committee’s citation called her the “Mozart of poetry,” a woman who mixed the elegance of language with “the fury of Beethoven.” Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Poland, Word Cloud
Tagged Advice on Poetry, Nobel Prize for Literature, Refugees, Some People, Translation, Wislawa Szymborska
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A Poem for National Poetry Month: “Hatred” by Wislawa Szymborska
SUBMITTED BY ELAINE MAGLIARO Back in 1999, US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky read Wislawa’s Szymborska’s poem Hatred on the PBS Newshour Poetry Series. Unfortunately, the video of Pinsky’s poetry reading is no longer available—but the text of the poem is … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Tagged Hatred, Nobel Prize for Literature, Wislawa Szymborska
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