Tag Archives: Seamus Heaney

A Poem for International Kite Day

Posted on January 14, 2023 by wordcloud9

January 14 is International Kite Day, which grew out of Uttarayan, a major kite festival in India which marks the beginning of summer there. Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), one of the major poets of the 20th century, was born in Northern Ireland, … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: April 13, 2019

Posted on April 13, 2019 by wordcloud9

April 13th is Make Lunch Count Day * Peach Cobbler Day Scrabble Day * Thomas Jefferson Day * _____________________________________ MORE! Nella Larsen, Samuel Beckett and Eudora Welty, click

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Word Cloud: DIGGER (Redux – National Poetry Month)

Posted on April 5, 2019 by wordcloud9

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 →

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Word Cloud: HELIOS

Posted on August 10, 2018 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD The waning of summer is a theme which has inspired many poets. Helios, Greek god-charioteer of the Sun, a beautiful youth who crosses the sky each day in his golden chariot drawn by four “fire-darting steeds,” … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: April 13, 2018

Posted on April 13, 2018 by wordcloud9

April 13th is Donate Life/Blue & Green Day * Make Lunch Count Day * Peach Cobbler Day Scrabble Day * Thomas Jefferson Day * _________________________________________ MORE! John Dryden, Eudora Welty and Seamus Heaney, click

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Word Cloud: DIGGER

Posted on April 14, 2017 by wordcloud9

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 →

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ON THIS DAY: April 13, 2017

Posted on April 13, 2017 by wordcloud9

April 13th is Make Lunch Count Day * Peach Cobbler Day Scrabble Day * Thomas Jefferson Day* Celebrate Teen Literature Day * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Miyamoto Musashi, Eudora Welty and Garry Kasparov, click

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