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A Poem for You: Testament by Connie Voisine

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Testament BY CONNIE VOISINE The cat wants to be a strong thing—a hand, a tree. The girl wants to be a pirate, in a tree. The tree wants to be the pond with its face of shining. The pond wants to be the sun who dumps its sugar on the grass. The grass wants to be the foot, its sole, its heel. The foot wants to be the brain who always gets to choose. The brain wants to be the feet dumb in their shoes. The shoe wants to be the buckle that the girl shines with a cloth. The buckle wants [...]

A Poem for You: Testament by Connie Voisineadmin2023-05-08T12:30:48-04:00

A Poem for You: How You Know BY JOE MILLS

admin2023-05-08T12:24:53-04:00

How You Know BY JOE MILLS How do you know if it’s love? she asks, and I think if you have to ask, it’s not, but I know this won’t help. I want to say you’re too young to worry about it, as if she has questions about Medicare or social security, but this won’t help either. “You’ll just know” is a lie, and one truth, “when you still want to be with them the next morning,” would involve too many follow-up questions. The difficulty with love, I want to say, is sometimes you only know afterwards that it’s arrived or left. Love [...]

A Poem for You: How You Know BY JOE MILLSadmin2023-05-08T12:24:53-04:00

Word of the Week: stupefy (STŌŌ-pə-fī)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:27:06-04:00

Word of the Week: stupefy (STŌŌ-pə-fī) Definition (Verb) To make stupid or torpid; to deprive of apprehension, feeling, or sensibility; to benumb, deaden. In Context "Before the introduction of anaesthesia during the nineteenth century, a mixture of opium and alcohol was extensively used to stupefy surgical patients and to shield them from the pain of operations." Martin Plant, Roy Robertson, Moira Plant, and Patrick Miller, Drug Nation: Patterns, Problems, Panics, and Policies, 2011.

Word of the Week: stupefy (STŌŌ-pə-fī)Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:27:06-04:00

A Poem for You: Flight BY IDRISSA SIMMONDS

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Flight BY IDRISSA SIMMONDS I call to ask my mother the name of the street where we bought the suitcases when we left Brooklyn. A better question would have been how did it feel to be sliced from the rib of Pine and Loring and sent, like a kite, up North. Or tell me what your mother said to you in her grand rear room the night we left, seated on the edge of her bed in her nightgown, muted in the low light. So many bellies in the house. Cacophony of kreyol and Brooklyn buk and sweet sweat across the walls. [...]

A Poem for You: Flight BY IDRISSA SIMMONDSadmin2023-05-08T12:19:54-04:00

Book of the Month: To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf

admin2023-05-22T14:53:00-04:00

To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf Critical Evaluation "Once again Mrs. Woolf makes use of her remarkable method of characterization, a method not based on observation or personal experience, but purely synthetic, purely creational. Clarissa Dalloway is a marvelous synthesis, and it is just for that reason that 'Mrs. Dalloway,' which has been identified because of its modernity with the "Ulysses" school, differs from it in character fundamentals, for it is as objective as "Ulysses" is autobiographical and observational. There is nothing 'photographic' about Mrs. Woolf's characters, here or in 'Mrs. Dalloway.' Neither Clarissa nor Mrs. Ramsay has anything autobiographical [...]

Book of the Month: To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolfadmin2023-05-22T14:53:00-04:00

A Poem for You:Never Describe the Sky as Azure BY PHILIP METRES

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Never Describe the Sky as Azure BY PHILIP METRES unless it’s made of stone. لاجورد Lāzhward migrating from Persia, smuggled from Farsi to Arabic & thrown like a wingless bird across the sky-dark sea until its version spills from English mouths. Lapis lazuli. O trap of beauty, you are a fiction ... Exhausted at day’s end of an oven-summer I duck out of the house [...]

A Poem for You:Never Describe the Sky as Azure BY PHILIP METRESadmin2023-05-08T12:11:51-04:00

Word of the Week: ineffable (in-EFF-uh-bul)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:25:08-04:00

Word of the Week: ineffable (in-EFF-uh-bul) Definition (Adjective) 1. a) incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable b) inexpressibly bad : unspeakable 2. not to be uttered : taboo In Context "Such haziness was inevitable, because the questions Buber was trying to answer were the most ineffable ones of human life: What is the meaning of our existence? How can we achieve the feeling of wholeness that we so painfully lack?" Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2019

Word of the Week: ineffable (in-EFF-uh-bul)Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:25:08-04:00

Word of the Week: quibble (KWIB-ul)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:22:56-04:00

Word of the Week: quibble (KWIB-ul) Definition (verb) 1. to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words 2. a) to find fault by raising trivial or frivolous objection b) to engage in a petty quarrel : bicker 3. to subject to minor objections or criticisms Context "A few researchers and doctors have also quibbled with some of the details in the dietary advice…." Eliza Barclay, Vox.com, 24 Jan. 2019

Word of the Week: quibble (KWIB-ul)Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:22:56-04:00

A Poem for You: The Mothering Blackness BY MAYA ANGELOU

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The Mothering Blackness BY MAYA ANGELOU She came home running back to the mothering blackness deep in the smothering blackness white tears icicle gold plains of her face She came home running She came down creeping here to the black arms waiting now to the warm heart waiting rime of alien dreams befrosts her rich brown face She came down creeping She came home blameless black yet as Hagar’s daughter tall as was Sheba’s daughter threats of northern winds die on the desert’s face She came home blameless

A Poem for You: The Mothering Blackness BY MAYA ANGELOUadmin2023-05-08T12:13:20-04:00

Word of the Week: abhorrent (ab·hor·rent \ -ənt)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-04-25T14:52:41-04:00

Word of the Week: abhorrent (ab·hor·rent \ -ənt) Definition (Adjective) 1 : causing or deserving strong dislike or hatred : being so repugnant as to stir up positive antagonism 2 : not agreeable : contrary 3 a : feeling or showing strong dislike or hatred b archaic : strongly opposed In Context class="cite-example">"The Syrian Regime has a history of using chemical weapons against its own people in the most cruel and abhorrent way." — CNN, "READ: UK Prime Minister Theresa May's statement on Syria strikes," 14 Apr. 2018

Word of the Week: abhorrent (ab·hor·rent \ -ənt)Stephanie Whetstone2023-04-25T14:52:41-04:00

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