National Poetry Month: April 22nd
April 22, 2013
Spring by Tess Dinerstein Spring wakes up From her long slumber Just in time to wish Winter Goodnight She stretches And the sun comes Out to greet her Warming the earth.
Off the Shelf
National Poetry Month: April 21st
April 21, 2013
a radio with guts by Charles Bukowski it was on the 2nd floor on Coronado Street I used to get drunk and throw the radio through the window while it was playing, and, of course, it would break the glass in the window and the radio would sit out there on the roof still playing […]
National Poetry Month: April 20th
April 20, 2013
Monet Refused the Operation by Lisel Mueller Doctor, you say there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused by old age, an affliction. I tell you it has taken me all my life to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels, to soften and […]
National Poetry Month: April 19th
April 19, 2013
Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams by Kenneth Koch 1 I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer. I am sorry, but it was morning, and I had nothing to do and its wooden beams were so inviting. . 2 We laughed at the hollyhocks together […]
National Poetry Month: April 18th
April 18, 2013
Something Missing by Shel Silverstein I remember I put on my socks, I remember I put on my shoes. I remember I put on my tie That was painted In beautiful purples and blues. I remember I put on my coat, To look perfectly grand at the dance, Yet I feel there is something I […]
National Poetry Month: April 17th
April 17, 2013
One Song by Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks) What is praised is one, so the praise is one too, many jugs being poured . into a huge basin. All religions, all this singing, one song.
"Elements" for a great photo–delicious cake and a classic library!
April 16, 2013
While browsing through “Baked Elements” by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito something niggled at the back of my mind. The authors’ photo was not set in their bakery or cafe, as one would expect, but rather, at the NY Public Library. The setting adds a distinct quality that is so different from the typical cookbook […]
2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced
April 16, 2013
The 2013 Pulitzer Prize winners for letters, drama, and music were announced Monday, April 15. The award for fiction went to Adam Johnson for his novel The Orphan Master’s Son, cited as an “exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most […]
National Poetry Month: April 16th
April 16, 2013
Everything the Power of the World Does is Done in a Circle by Black Elk Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, […]
April 15, 2013
“There’s no money in poetry, but there’s no poetry in money, either.” — Robert Graves