Monday, April 30, 2018
Friday, April 27, 2018
Stacy Rae Lake and the Glory of Transformation
"The miracle that you are is in everyone else." |
If I wrote a poem about you it would be called Glory
The spiritual heart is bigger than form
Giant glowing arms reach out to embrace all states
And they grow colors and flowers on every inch of their earthy bodies
Energy as essence pours rain and tears
balancing joy and purification
It can wash the darkest city into bright vibrancy
Telling stories about truly living life
Labels:
butterfly,
Glory,
spiritual poetry,
Stacy Rae Lake,
transformation
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
National Park Week: John Muir, Yosemite and the Action of Flowing Ice
Yosemite National Park. |
No one wrote more passionately — or poetically — about his natural environment than John Muir. During National Park Week we revisit his words, more specifically, his words about Yosemite National Park. It was at Yosemite, camping with President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903, that the seed was planted to create the National Park Service. The following words were first published in 1914 in The Yosemite. They come from the last paragraph of the chapter, The Ancient Yosemite Glaciers, arranged poetically.
Monday, April 23, 2018
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Library Way: Isak Dinesen and Shadows on the Grass
And then in the end, the Liberation came. |
Isak Dinesen. Tania Blixen. Osceola. Pierre Andrézel. Four of the names that the Danish author Karen Blixen (1885-1962) used in her literary career. Best known for her 1937 book Out of Africa, Blixen is remembered on Library Way with a quote from the last published work during her lifetime, Shadows on the Grass, which itself serves as an end to Out of Africa.
Sunday, April 15, 2018
Charles Bane Jr.'s The Chapbook — My Old Soul
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Remembering The Holocaust and the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. |
My old soul has sung before.
It has lain many hands in mine;
I reach for yours,
and link it to he who needs.
He stands in Bergen-Belsen in the rain,
waiting his turn to expire.
He takes hands he cannot save
and sighs and breathes the gas.
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Revolution on Canvas: Poetry from the Indie Music Scene
Sunday, April 8, 2018
First Lines Second Thoughts — George Orwell's 1984
Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast... |
First Lines Second Thoughts is an occasional look at the first lines of well known literary works. On second thought, do these opening words stand alone as poetry? Today, on a cold April day, we look at the opening lines of George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984.
Friday, April 6, 2018
Totalmente mia con Octavio González Navarro
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Of Baseball, the White Sox and Nevest Coleman
Labels:
baseball,
Chicago White Sox,
justice,
Nevest Coleman,
Southside
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Martin Luther King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." |
Written in the margins of a newspaper — the only paper available to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Birmingham City Jail — The Letter from a Birmingham Jail was written four days after King's arrest on Good Friday April 12, 1963 while marching against racism and racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama.
Sunday, April 1, 2018
Charles Bane Jr.'s The Chapbook — The Two
Labels:
Charles Bane Jr.,
Easter,
Passover,
The Chapbook,
The Two
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