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Word Cloud: GUILT
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Last week’s Word Cloud was about Tracy K. Smith, the current U.S. Poet Laureate, and a previous winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. This year’s Pulitzer Prize in Poetry winner, Frank Bidart, was also mentioned. Sadly, Frank … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged "Ellen West", Bollingen Prize in American Poetry, Frank Bidart, Guilt, Herbert White, Louise Glück, National Book Award in Poetry, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Word Cloud: CONVERGENCE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Writing a weekly column about poetry is sometimes frustrating. It’s a subject that so many people in my country find “irrelevant” to Modern Life. But if three contestants in this week’s Jeopardy! Teachers’ Tournament had been … Continue reading
Word Cloud: INNER-B!ȾȻH
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Originally posted on July 15, 2016 – I still feel under the weather, so I’m giving you a “golden oldie” this week that’s in keeping with Women’s History Month. :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: I normally try to abstain from vulgar … Continue reading
Word Cloud: MIDLIFE
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
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Anne Sexton, Maxine Kumin, Midlife, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Robert Frost Medal, Ruth Lily Poetry Prize, U.S. Poet Laureate
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Word Cloud: PRAIRIE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD This week, my husband and I are celebrating our 34th wedding anniversary, so I’m just going to give you a brief introduction to one of my all- time favorite poets, then let you explore on your … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, United States, Word Cloud
Tagged American Midwest, Prairie, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Pushcart Prize, Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate
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Word Cloud: CONTRARY
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD ‘Light Verse’ – one of those labels like ‘children’s book’ that makes a many people assume a writer’s work is not quite good enough to be called poetry or literature. But labels, like the covers of books, are far … Continue reading
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Tagged CONTRARY, Larchmont NY, Mad Men, Phyllis McGinley, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Second Wave Feminism, Suburbia, The New Yorker magazine, Women's History Month
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Word Cloud: PARADOX
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD “Cut off from the sight of God, modern man wanders about in his Land of Unlikeness, driven by greed and cruelty.” – Jerome Mazzaro, commenting on Robert Lowell’s first poetry collection Land of Unlikeness Robert Lowell (1917–1977) was … Continue reading
Word Cloud: INNER-BI ȾȻH
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I normally try to abstain from vulgar language in my writing, but profiling Carolyn Kizer (1925-2014), it’s hard to avoid the word “Bitch” since that is the title of one of her most famous poems. “Women writers are … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Carolyn Kizer, Feminist, Pro Femina, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Pushcart Prize, Vladimir Fokanov
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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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