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A Poem for You: Cape Tenaron by Katerina Iliopoulou

admin2025-09-03T11:09:08-04:00

Cape Tenaron Katerina Iliopoulou translated from the modern Greek by Jackson Watson Here the days don’t dissolve in air they fall into the water shaping their own shell a sheen of separation. A hawk flies over summer’s body diving again, again feeding and drunk from the fall. There’s nothing here but manic wind alone and stones and sea a senseless promise sharpens our lust with the moon’s blade. When I arrived here, in the landscape of endings, the wind entered my mouth with so much rage as if I were its only vessel until all my words vanished. Each tree [...]

A Poem for You: Cape Tenaron by Katerina Iliopoulouadmin2025-09-03T11:09:08-04:00

Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
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Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison

admin2025-06-18T11:55:14-04:00

Book of the Month: Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison Critical Assessment “Thanks to this narrative method and Ms. Morrison's magisterial yet sensuous prose, ''Beloved'' possesses the heightened power and resonance of myth - its characters, like those in opera or Greek drama, seem larger than life and their actions, too, tend to strike us as enactments of ancient rituals and passions. To describe ''Beloved'' only in these terms, however, is to diminish its immediacy, for the novel also remains precisely grounded in an American reality -the reality of black history as experienced in the wake of the Civil [...]

Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrisonadmin2025-06-18T11:55:14-04:00

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (2013)

admin2025-04-10T16:45:51-04:00

Book of the Month: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (2013) Critical Evaluation "It is dangerous to write openings as compelling as Donna Tartt's. In The Secret History, the one-page prologue gives us a murder and a narrator who has helped to commit it. The Little Friend starts with the death of a child who, by page 15, is found hanging by a piece of rope from a tree branch, his red hair "the only thing about him that was the right colour any more". And now, in The Goldfinch, Tartt has a 50‑page two-part opening. In the first section, the narrator, Theo Decker, is holed up [...]

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (2013)admin2025-04-10T16:45:51-04:00

Book of the Month: The Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys

admin2025-04-10T16:44:02-04:00

The Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys Critical Evaluation “By night, I attended classes at University College Cork where, as part of an English-literature module, I first read Jean Rhys’s beautiful and subversive Wide Sargasso Sea. Here were words engaged in a different sort of taking apart. ‘Rhys took one of the works of genius of the 19th century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the 20th century,’ Michele Roberts has said of Wide Sargasso Sea. The novel didn’t just take inspiration from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, it illuminated and confronted it, challenged the narrative. The shorthand [...]

Book of the Month: The Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhysadmin2025-04-10T16:44:02-04:00

A Poem for You: Riverkeeper

admin2025-06-17T14:45:17-04:00

Riverkeeper Margaret Gibson Wanting to be that place where inner and outer meet, this morning I’m listening to the river inside— also to the river out the window, river of sun and branch shadow, muskrat and mallard, heron, and the rattled cry of the kingfisher. Out there is a tree whose roots the river has washed so often the tree stretches beyond itself, its spirit like mine, leaning out over the water, held only by the poised astonishment of being here. This morning, listening to the river inside, I’m sinking into a stillness where what can’t be said stirs beneath currents [...]

A Poem for You: Riverkeeperadmin2025-06-17T14:45:17-04:00

A Poem for You: Ghazal Circling Fatherhood by Carlos Andrés Gómez

admin2025-06-17T10:27:07-04:00

Ghazal Circling Fatherhood Carlos Andrés Gómez My mother exalts her long-gone father. Driving home, laments the failings of my father. Sees her ex-husband in my excuses, tells me: That’s just like your father. On holiday, he sneaks away to work; I take a work call. Like son, like father. Before, I tried to outrun my shadow when sun met twilight, like Earth’s late father. God sacrificed his son for his life’s work. So we sing heavenward to honor the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—Forgive me, for I have sinned, become my own father— not who raised me, but those [...]

A Poem for You: Ghazal Circling Fatherhood by Carlos Andrés Gómezadmin2025-06-17T10:27:07-04:00

A Poem for You: The Guitar

admin2025-06-04T15:40:57-04:00

A Poem for You: The Guitar Federico García Lorca - 1898-1936 The weeping of the guitar begins. The goblets of dawn are smashed. The weeping of the guitar begins. Useless to silence it. Impossible to silence it. It weeps monotonously as water weeps as the wind weeps over snowfields. Impossible to silence it. It weeps for distant things. Hot southern sands yearning for white camellias. Weeps arrow without target evening without morning and the first dead bird on the branch. Oh, guitar! Heart mortally wounded by five swords.

A Poem for You: The Guitaradmin2025-06-04T15:40:57-04:00

A Poem for You: I Sing the Body Electric

admin2025-04-16T15:05:54-04:00

I Sing the Body Electric BY WALT WHITMAN 1 I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul. Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves? And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead? And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul? And if the body were not the soul, [...]

A Poem for You: I Sing the Body Electricadmin2025-04-16T15:05:54-04:00

Book of the Month: The Unexpurgated Code: A Complete Manual Of Survival & Manners by J.P. Donleavy (1975)

admin2025-06-04T15:38:30-04:00

Critical Evaluation "Books of advice come in many forms: financial, spiritual, physical, philosophical. Novels too are books of advice, if read in a certain light. Eve Babitz understood, for example, that part of Colette’s greatness is that you can open her novels anywhere and “brush up on what to do.” There are only two advice books I’ve read more than once. One is Tom Hodgkinson’s “How to Be Idle” (2004). Its title is self-explanatory. The other is J.P. Donleavy’s “The Unexpurgated Code” (1975). Its title is less so. Donleavy’s book is a sendup of the form that happens to be, possibly, [...]

Book of the Month: The Unexpurgated Code: A Complete Manual Of Survival & Manners by J.P. Donleavy (1975)admin2025-06-04T15:38:30-04:00

A Poem for You: This Is Not a Small Voice

admin2025-04-16T15:01:10-04:00

This Is Not a Small Voice Sonia Sanchez This is not a small voice you hear this is a large voice coming out of these cities. This is the voice of LaTanya. Kadesha. Shaniqua. This is the voice of Antoine. Darryl. Shaquille. Running over waters navigating the hallways of our schools spilling out on the corners of our cities and no epitaphs spill out of their river mouths. This is not a small love you hear this is a large love, a passion for kissing learning on its face. This is a love that crowns the feet with hands that nourishes, [...]

A Poem for You: This Is Not a Small Voiceadmin2025-04-16T15:01:10-04:00

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