Archive for the ‘Poetry’ Category
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The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science
06 May 2021The Romantic period of Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelly in England and of others around Europe is not normally thought of…
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Pablo Neruda in Valparaiso
01 Apr 2019Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Altobasso lost his mother at age thirteen, and the support of his father even before…
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Liu Xiaobo: Keeping Alive
14 Jul 2017Liu Xiaobo, one of the world’s most courageous men, Chinese dissident, died of liver cancer in a Chinese hospital, died…
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Learning — a Poem by William Stafford
08 Feb 2017Learning A piccolo played, then a drum. Feet began to come – a part of the music. Here comes a…
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Ashes Tossed to Wind
14 Oct 2016There will come the day when the ashes tossed to wind are mine. Pick a day of heavy breeze, I would…
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For the Unknown Enemy, a Poem by William Stafford
18 May 2016For the Unknown Enemy This monument is for the unknown good in our enemies. Like a picture their life began…
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Walking Through Spain, A Villanelle
15 Jan 2016Walking Through Spain, A Villanelle Walking through Spain on knotted, riven knees toes soaked in pain backs bent to the…
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Thinking of the Tao Te Ching After the (Persian Gulf) War
04 Jan 2016A poem by by Thom Tammaro: “Lao Tzu, I think of you at the gates of Chou near Han Ku Pass,…
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A Stray Bullet — a Poem by Mazen Maarouf
24 Dec 2015A Stray Bullet After crossing the living room, the library, the corridor and the photo that brings us together on…
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Bitter Searching of the Heart
16 Dec 2015Villanelle for Our Time From bitter searching of the heart, Quickened with passion and with pain We rise to play…
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A Poet and His Work, In Film
20 Oct 2015Poetry in film, now there’s a small sub-genre of the movie world. Hayden Reiss‘s long labor of love, Robert Bly:…
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Robert Bly, Poet, Crying Out….
17 Oct 2015I saw a wonderful documentary film the other day, titled Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy, about which more…
