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A Poem for You: How to Triumph Like a Girl BY ADA LIMÓN

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How to Triumph Like a Girl BY ADA LIMÓN I like the lady horses best, how they make it all look easy, like running 40 miles per hour is as fun as taking a nap, or grass. I like their lady horse swagger, after winning. Ears up, girls, ears up! But mainly, let’s be honest, I like that they’re ladies. As if this big dangerous animal is also a part of me, that somewhere inside the delicate skin of my body, there pumps an 8-pound female horse heart, giant with power, heavy with blood. Don’t you want to believe it? Don’t you [...]

A Poem for You: How to Triumph Like a Girl BY ADA LIMÓNadmin2023-05-08T12:55:01-04:00

Word of the Week: demagogue (DĔM-ə-gôg)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:43:44-04:00

Word of the Week: demagogue (DĔM-ə-gôg) Definition (Noun) In a bad sense: A leader of a popular faction, or of the mob; a political agitator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of the mob in order to obtain power or further his own interests; an unprincipled or factious popular orator. In Context "Because of his enormous personal power – built on an immense fortune, the proprietorship of a media empire, the rhetorical skills of a demagogue and the control of a political party that he created – Mr. Berlusconi has been able to attain the loyalty of many people." Maurizio [...]

Word of the Week: demagogue (DĔM-ə-gôg)Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:43:44-04:00

Word of the Week: gudgeon (GŬJ-ən)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:37:41-04:00

Word of the Week: gudgeon (GŬJ-ən) Definition (Noun) One that will bite at any bait or swallow anything: a credulous, gullible person. In Context "And that makes me for to take it the less to heart, when I do see you be such a gudgeon, Tim, with no more sense than to swallow neat down every thing that do come in your way." Frances Burney, The Wanderer: Or, Female Difficulties, 1814.

Word of the Week: gudgeon (GŬJ-ən)Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:37:41-04:00

A Poem for You: Gitanjali 35 BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE

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Gitanjali 35 BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

A Poem for You: Gitanjali 35 BY RABINDRANATH TAGOREadmin2023-05-08T12:50:03-04:00

Book of the Month: The Shell Collector: Stories (2002) by Anthony Doerr

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The Shell Collector: Stories (2002) by Anthony Doerr Critical Evalulation "Reading Anthony Doerr's fine first collection of stories is like eavesdropping on a group of people who are standing at a picture window inventing tall tales about the wilderness they see outside. But while the perspectives of the characters in 'The Shell Collector' range widely, from a lonely New England teenager to a Liberian refugee in Oregon, two themes unite the book's storytelling: hunting and being hunted, holding on and letting go. In one story, an outdoorsman from Montana falls in love with a magician's assistant who has the power to [...]

Book of the Month: The Shell Collector: Stories (2002) by Anthony Doerradmin2023-05-22T15:55:43-04:00

Word of the Week: pellucid (pə-LŌŌ-sĭd)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:35:34-04:00

Word of the Week: pellucid (pə-LŌŌ-sĭd) Definition (Adjective) Clear in sense and expression, lucid. In Context "For there is a remarkable diversity in Cicero's style, ranging from the solemn rotundity of his oratorical perorations, through the pellucid but still formal rhythms of his treatises, to the various degrees of colloquialism in his letters." Michael Grant, Translator, Cicero: Selected Works, 1960. This word was suggested by Robert Sweet in the Office of Development.

Word of the Week: pellucid (pə-LŌŌ-sĭd)Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:35:34-04:00

A Poem for You: Paris and Helen BY JUDY GRAHN

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Paris and Helen BY JUDY GRAHN He called her: golden dawn She called him: the wind whistles He called her: heart of the sky She called him: message bringer He called her: mother of pearl barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider keeper of forests, my-love-rides He called her: the tree is She called him: bird dancing He called her: who stands, has stood, will always stand She called him: arriver He called her: the heart and the womb [...]

A Poem for You: Paris and Helen BY JUDY GRAHNadmin2023-05-08T12:39:36-04:00

Word of the Week: fatuous (FĂCH-ōō-əs)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:31:59-04:00

Word of the Week: fatuous (FĂCH-ōō-əs) Definition (Adjective) Of persons, their actions, feelings, utterances, etc.: Foolish, vacantly silly, stupid, besotted. In Context "Our city governments are, in many instances, foul cancers on the body politic; and for us to boast of having solved the problem of local self-government is as fatuous as for a strong man to exult in his health when his body is covered with running sores." James M. Beck, The Constitution of the United States, 1924.

Word of the Week: fatuous (FĂCH-ōō-əs)Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:31:59-04:00

A Poem for You: Belle Isle, 1949 BY PHILIP LEVINE

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Belle Isle, 1949 BY PHILIP LEVINE We stripped in the first warm spring night and ran down into the Detroit River to baptize ourselves in the brine of car parts, dead fish, stolen bicycles, melted snow. I remember going under hand in hand with a Polish highschool girl I'd never seen before, and the cries our breath made caught at the same time on the cold, and rising through the layers of darkness into the final moonless atmosphere that was this world, the girl breaking the surface after me and swimming out on the starless waters towards the lights of Jefferson Ave. [...]

A Poem for You: Belle Isle, 1949 BY PHILIP LEVINEadmin2023-05-08T12:34:43-04:00

Word of the Week: avatar (ĂV-ə-tär)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:30:15-04:00

Word of the Week: avatar (ĂV-ə-tär) Definition (Noun) Manifestation in human form; incarnation. In Context "Black music was everywhere in New York in the mid-1920s as an avatar of the contemporary moment." Todd Decker, Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical, 2013.

Word of the Week: avatar (ĂV-ə-tär)Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:30:15-04:00

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