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A Poem for You: A Phosphorescence by James Cervantes

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A Phosphorescence James Cervantes I discovered phosphorescence one day clearing pine needles from an acre plot in the mountains. I raked and scratched large piles, then became obsessed with the base of one tree, raking harder and deeper until black, matted clumps of needles came up to reveal a glow. Fire, I thought, afraid for the forest. But no smoke, no burn smells. There could be light without fire, like that moment of warmth I mistook for fire, a gentle touch on your arm that was light and would be no more than that. Copyright © 2024 by James Cervantes. Originally [...]

A Poem for You: A Phosphorescence by James Cervantesadmin2024-12-04T13:16:50-05:00

Word of the Week: bon mot (bôn MŌ)

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Word of the Week: bon mot (bôn MŌ) Definition (Noun) A clever or witty saying; a witticism, repartee. In Context “Her [Sarah Bernhardt’s] last bon mot, uttered in 1923 as she lay dying, was to observe of the waiting journalists, ‘They’ve tortured me all my life, now I’ll torture them.’” Emma Brockes, “Mystery Diva,” The New York Times, September 17, 2010.

Word of the Week: bon mot (bôn MŌ)admin2025-01-08T13:30:18-05:00

Word of the Week: sesquipedalian (sĕs-kwĭ-pĭ-DĀL-yǝn)

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Word of the Week: sesquipedalian (sĕs-kwĭ-pĭ-DĀL-yǝn) Definition (Adjective) Given to using long words. In Context “Poor Miss Matty got sadly puzzled with this, for the words gathered size like snowballs, and towards the end of her letter Miss Jenkyns used to become quite sesquipedalian.” Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford, 1851.

Word of the Week: sesquipedalian (sĕs-kwĭ-pĭ-DĀL-yǝn)admin2024-11-20T13:46:47-05:00

A Poem for You: A Christmas Carol By Christina Rossetti

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A Christmas Carol By Christina Rossetti In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, long ago. Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him, nor earth sustain; Heaven and earth shall flee away when He comes to reign. In the bleak midwinter a stable place sufficed The Lord God Almighty, Jesus Christ. Enough for Him, whom cherubim, worship night and day, Breastful of milk, and a mangerful of hay; Enough for Him, whom angels fall before, The ox and ass and camel [...]

A Poem for You: A Christmas Carol By Christina Rossettiadmin2024-12-04T13:12:19-05:00

A Poem for You: Delayza’s Necklace by Max Early

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Delayza’s Necklace Max Early We enter to sounds of bells. The hall’s warmth evokes an imprint of my small self standing by my grandparents. Their presence I sense in drums and singers’ voices. Collective breath of all colors hovers above the leaping herd. Eagle and hawk feathers adorn the deer dance’s rhythmic scent— forest evergreen, damp earth. Delayza puts her hand in mine. The seated crowd hinders her view. I lift her above the masses— a butterfly beyond reach. Her irises bloom to the choir and drumbeats rumbling nearby snowflakes. I set her among the gold straw flecks glistening on the [...]

A Poem for You: Delayza’s Necklace by Max Earlyadmin2024-12-04T12:58:38-05:00

Book of the Month: The Vegetarian (2007) by Han Kang

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The Vegetarian (2007) by Han Kang Critical Evaluation "The Vegetarian is a story in three acts: the first shows us Yeong-hye’s decision and her family’s reaction; the second focuses on her brother-in-law, an unsuccessful artist who becomes obsessed with her body; the third on In-hye, the manager of a cosmetics store, trying to find her own way of dealing with the fallout from the family collapse. Across the three parts, we are pressed up against a society’s most inflexible structures – expectations of behaviour, the workings of institutions – and we watch them fail one by one. The novel repeatedly shows [...]

Book of the Month: The Vegetarian (2007) by Han Kangadmin2024-12-11T14:45:54-05:00

A Poem for You: Untitled by Lance Henson

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Untitled Lance Henson Here is a place where nothing can die Darkness that lives beneath the leaves We bring our nights there without knowing We bring our fear there before the singing begins We bring our silent names there hoping we are forgiven We bring our hands there scented of a river We bring our prayers that hide and watch us The landscape where we have held the loose feathers Of a fallen bird And awakened in the land of the unseen Here is a place where nothing can die ... Copyright © 2024 by Lance Henson. Originally published in Poem-a-Day [...]

A Poem for You: Untitled by Lance Hensonadmin2024-12-04T12:43:04-05:00

A Poem for You: As if some little Arctic flower by Emily Dickinson

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As if some little Arctic flower Emily Dickinson As if some little Arctic flower, Upon the polar hem, Went wandering down the latitudes, Until it puzzled came To continents of summer, To firmaments of sun, To strange, bright crowds of flowers, And birds of foreign tongue! I say, as if this little flower To Eden wandered in — What then? Why, nothing, only, Your inference therefrom! This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on December 1, 2024, by the Academy of American Poets.

A Poem for You: As if some little Arctic flower by Emily Dickinsonadmin2024-12-04T12:39:15-05:00

A Poem for you: Sufficient by Ina Donna Coolbrith

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Sufficient Ina Donna Coolbrith Citron, pomegranate, Apricot, and peach, Flutter of apple-blows Whiter than the snow, Filling the silence With their leafy speech, Budding and blooming Down row after row. Breaths of blown spices, Which the meadows yield, Blossoms broad-petaled, Starry buds and small; Gold of the hill-sides, Purple of the field, Waft to my nostrils Their fragrance, one and all. Birds in the tree-tops, Birds that fill the air, Trilling, piping, singing, In their merry moods, — Gold wing and brown wing, Flitting here and here, To the coo and chirrup Of their downy broods. What grace has summer Better [...]

A Poem for you: Sufficient by Ina Donna Coolbrithadmin2024-11-20T16:16:50-05:00

A Poem for you: Stories by Amber McCrary

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Stories Amber McCrary You are a Diné woman A cosmic energy of earth and sky Nihimá Nahasdzáán Azhé’é DiyiníWinter is over So, we put our stories in the drawer Then we take them out for the next winter It is said stories are only told in the winter So, the bears and snakes do not hear them My father is not a traditional man But he grew up as a traditional ashkii yázhí He speaks the tongue of the sky and earth of our people He knows the ways of our land But denies it all One day I tell him [...]

A Poem for you: Stories by Amber McCraryadmin2024-11-20T16:14:23-05:00

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