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Word Cloud: TRANSFORMATION
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD What’s in a name? Names are a symbol for who we are, but sometimes a birth name can feel like a once-warm coat we’ve outgrown: a little shabby, and tight in all the wrong places. So … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Black History Month, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Ntozake Shange, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, Transformation, Yusef Komunyakaa
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TCS: Braver Still – Poems for Veterans Day, 2019
. 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Amorak Huey, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Joy Harjo, Natalie Diaz, Robert Frost, TCS - Braver Still - Poems for Veterans Day, Winifred M. Letts, Yusef Komunyakaa
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Word Cloud: APPARITION
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Samhain or Samhuin (SAH-win or SOW-in – rhymes with cow) was the first day of the new year in the ancient Celtic calendar, the beginning of the “darker half” of the year. Samhain is Irish Gaelic. … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Apparition, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ghosts, Halloween, Hughes Mearns, Samhain, Yusef Komunyakaa
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Word Cloud: DARKNESS
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD The pages of our calendars are flying off like autumn leaves. To the delight of children, we are nearing that annual candy-scavenge in America: Halloween. Our celebrations of the eerie and macabre are pretty bland compared to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emily Dickinson, Hughes Mearns, Maurice Kilwein Guevara, Robert Frost, Walter del al Mare, William Shakespeare, Yusef Komunyakaa
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Word Cloud: TRANSFORMATION
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD What’s in a name? Names are a symbol for who we are, but sometimes a birth name can feel like a once-warm coat we’ve outgrown: a little shabby, and tight in all the wrong places. So … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged African American poets, Black History Month, Ntozake Shange, Transformation, Yusef Komunyakaa
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Word Cloud: DARKNESS
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD The pages of our calendars are flying off like autumn leaves. To the delight of children, we are nearing that annual candy-scavenge in America: Halloween. Our celebrations of the eerie and macabre are pretty bland compared to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Darkness, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emily Dickinson, Hughes Mearns, Maurice Kilwein Guevara, Robert Frost, Walter de la Mare, Yusef Komunyakaa
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“Facing It”—A Poem by Yusef Komunyakaa in Honor of American Veterans
By Elaine Magliaro Yusef Komunyakaa, the author of the poem Facing It, was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana on April 29, 1947. He “served in the United States Army from 1969 to 1970 as a correspondent, and as managing editor of … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Art, Society
Tagged Favorite Poem Project, Poetry, Vietnam Veterans, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Vietnam War, Yusef Komunyakaa
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