Tag Archives: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

A Famous Poet’s Poem About Poetry

Posted on November 15, 2022 by wordcloud9

Happy Birthday to Marianne Moore! Marianne Moore (1887-1972) was born on November 15, 1887, in Kirkwood, Missouri; influential American poet, critic, editor, and translator. In 1952, her book, Collected Poems, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the National Book Award for Poetry. … Continue reading →

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TCS: Even Gardens, It Seems, Can Set Off Explosions

Posted on May 9, 2022 by wordcloud9

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

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Scrabble Day: Tense, Tenuous, and Tender

Posted on April 13, 2021 by wordcloud9

On April 13, 1899, Alfred Butts was born. He was an American architect, and the inventor of the board game Scrabble. On April 13, 1947, Rae Armantrout was born. She is an American poet, the winner of the 2009 National … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: MIDLIFE

Posted on March 20, 2020 by wordcloud9

reposted in honor of Women’s History Month by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I guess it’s human nature to try to make things fit, whether it’s putting on roof tiles, or papers we need to file, or sorting the animal kingdom into … Continue reading →

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A Poem for Walking the Dog Day

Posted on February 22, 2020 by wordcloud9

Howard Nemerov (1920-1991) was an American poet. In 1978, he won the National Book Award for Poetry, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and the Bollingen Prize for his collection, The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov.  Nemerov served as poetry consultant to … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: CODA

Posted on January 10, 2020 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD There are some people who begin to hear the ticking of the clock louder and louder in their lives, that relentless reminder that death is somewhere up ahead. They study it, try to pry at death’s … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: MIDLIFE (Redux)

Posted on June 7, 2019 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I guess it’s human nature to try to make things fit, whether it’s putting on roof tiles, or papers we need to file, or sorting the animal kingdom into family, genus and species – most of … 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: SUMMER-LONG

Posted on June 15, 2018 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD While Memorial Day has become the unofficial start of summer for Americans, the actual start of the season here in the Northern Hemisphere is the Summer Solstice.  The Solstice this year began at 6:07 AM, U.S. … Continue reading →

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A Poem for World Turtle Day

Posted on May 23, 2018 by wordcloud9

by Mary Oliver: The Turtle breaks from the blue-black skin of the water, dragging her shell with its mossy scutes across the shallows and through the rushes and over the mudflats, to the uprise, to the yellow sand, to dig … Continue reading →

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