April 18, 2012
Paul Revere’s Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Listen, my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.
April 17, 2012
NPR aired a refreshing interview with an unusual guy, Zach Houston. Most of us like to pursue various interests, but here’s a man who actually quit his regular job to write full-time poetry. His office is a public bench and he is getting paid (not very much) to create verse. Shira S.
April 17, 2012
When 59 year old Trish Vickers went blind from diabetes, she began writing a novel hoping to find a publisher. But her dream was short lived after her son discovered that the pen she used had run out of ink and that 26 pages of her manuscript were completely blank. In good detective fashion, she […]
April 17, 2012
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout by Shel Silverstein Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the garbage out! She’d scour the pots and scrape the pans, Candy the yams and spice the hams, And though her daddy would scream and shout, She simply would not take the garbage out.
April 16, 2012
“I Am Not I” by Juan Ramon Jimenez I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see, whom at times I manage to visit, and whom at other times I forget; who remains calm and silent while I talk, and forgives, gently, when I hate, who walks […]
April 15, 2012
HuffPost mentioned that the long awaited website of all things officially Harry Potter has finally opened to the public, although there may be some delays in accessing the site. The news broke with a short notice on its blog. Shira S.
April 15, 2012
Living in Sin by Adrienne Rich She had thought the studio would keep itself; no dust upon the furniture of love. Half heresy, to wish the taps less vocal, the panes relieved of grime. A plate of pears, a piano with a Persian shawl, a cat stalking the picturesque amusing mouse had risen at his […]
April 15, 2012
He’s not named Harry, but Barry, and he’s already dead at the start of Rowling’s new adult novel, The Casual Vacancy. Set in the picturesque village of Pagford, Rowling’s darkly humorous novel portrays the decidedly un-quaint ugly conflicts that are revealed when Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly leaving a vacancy on the parish council. Pre-orders are reportedly building […]
April 14, 2012
Beannacht by John O’Donohue On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you.
April 13, 2012
Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day; The score stood four to two with but one inning more to play. And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same, A sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game. . […]
