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?Second Love,? new poem by Erwin A. Thompson
2008-05-06 04:32:00 Erwin and Ruth Thompson snuggle up on a past wedding anniversary Second Love by Erwin A. Thompson For the second anniversary of Ruth’s death, May 1, 2006 My first love was like a pansy, brought too soon from the greenhouse’ sheltering glass. A late frost took its vicious toll. That love was never meant to last. My second love was like ... More About: Poem , Erwin
Happy May Day?Happy Mothers Day?My Mother?s Second Anniversary?We?ll be Ste
2008-05-01 13:46:00 Flora, Goddess of Flowers May first. May Day is a many-splendored thing with more official holiday designations than perhaps any other day of the year. I recall as a child weaving May Day wreaths from spirea branches cut from our bushes and hanging them on our neighbors door. I especially liked hanging my wreath on ... More About: Anniversary , Mothers Day , Happy , Mother , Mothers
What Use Is the Poet? William T. Dawson?s ?Snow Blindness?
2008-04-30 21:33:00 The Poet gropes in the darkness for the switch knowing that the light that is sought lies within. –William T. Dawson I met William Dawson when I told a story at last year’s Sunflower Festival in Mountainaire, New Mexico. We shared supper on his simple terrace as we gazed across the desert leading up to the ... More About: Snow , Blindness
Argentine Poet Juan Gelman wins Cervantes Prize in Spain
2008-04-30 20:28:00 Spain’s King Juan Carlos gave Gelman a medal symbolizing the Cervantes Prize at a ceremony in Alcala De Henares, the birthplace of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, the author of “Don Quixote.” Read entire article in International Herald Tribune (Culture section) by clicking here….Argentine poet Juan Gelman receives Spanish-speaking world’s highest literary honor To read Gelman’s work in ... More About: Spain , Poet , Wins
Riehlife Poems of the Day:
2008-04-30 18:40:00 Riehlife National Poetry Month Editor Stephanie Farrow writes: Dear Friends, It has been such a treat to share poetry during this past month. Thank you all for participating! Because today is the last day, I?d thought initially that the final poem should be deep and meaningful, inscrutable perhaps and profound—something along the lines of what the New ... More About: Poems
Barry D. Yelton, ?Scarecrow in Gray? author, hails from hill country of Nor
2008-04-30 16:48:00 Barry D. Yelton, author of Scarecrow in Gray, (September 2006, Universe ) based roughly on the Civil War experiences of his great-grandfather is currently at work on the sequel. Barry says: As to my work, I am a bit of a poet, a bit of a novelist, and a whole lot of Southern. I come from the hill ... More About: Country , Author , Hill , Barry
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Martín Espada?s ?Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
2008-04-30 01:16:00 ALABANZA: IN PRAISE OF LOCAL 100 Martín Espada Alabanza[excellent video!] (for the 43 members of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 100 working at the Window on the World restaurant, who lost their lives in the attack on the World Trade Center ) Alabanza.Praise the cook with a shaven head and a tattoo on his shoulder that said Oye, a blue-eyed Puerto Rican with ... More About: Poem , National Poetry Month
Blog Duet: Curating the Examined Life
2008-04-28 21:30:00 Crazy Ali Poet of Turkey Photo by Marcy Burns An unexamined life is not worth living. —Socrates An examined life is worth curating. —Janet Riehl Like a museum curator chooses what to put in the exhibit and where to put it, we all choose where and when and with whom to place the events that make up our ... More About: Life , Blog
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Galway Kinnell?s ?Blackberry Eating,? from ?Morta
2008-04-28 15:57:00 Blackberries “en bushed” Sign of the times: Google “blackberry” and what comes up is a mechanical device, not a fruit. To find the fruit on Google, you must type in “blackberry fruit.” Vis: more people have likely held Blackberry devices in their hands these days than have gone berrying and experienced the pleasures Kinnell describes in ... More About: Poem , Galway , Eating
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Wendell Berry?s ?The Hidden Singer?
2008-04-27 14:42:00 The Hidden Singer by Wendell Berry from The Selected Poem s of Wendell Berry (Copyright © 1998) The gods are less for their love of praise. Above and below them all is a spirit that needs nothing but its own wholeness, its health and ours. It has made all things by dividing itself. It will be whole again. To its joy we come together— the ... More About: National Poetry Month
Salon 53 bronze sponsor for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dance St. L
2008-04-26 18:25:00 Freida Wheaton gets around. She’s a board member of Dance St. Louis and a member of the Ballet Ball Committee. Freida’s fun and saavy. She assembled a group of friends and supporters to join her at table #33. Freida, Salon 53 and friends provided Bronze Sponsor ship to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Alvin Ailey ... More About: Theater , American
Riehlife Poetry Treasuretrove of the Day: PBS Fooling with Words
2008-04-26 17:52:00 Wow! Go over the Bill Moyers Journal for links to poetry videos and transcripts of your favorite poets. Hey, Hal Manogue! Here’s a video of Coleman Barks reciting Rumi that will set you up for several days! More About: Poetry , Words
Moyers & Wright: Beyond the Soundbite
2008-04-26 17:39:00 I left The Space (see post below) to rush home through our big thunder and lightening storm…headed for Bill Moyers ’ Journal on PBS…featuring an interview with Reverend Jeremiah Wright and looking for insights into… Black Churches, Black Theology and American History James H. Cone’s quotation set the tone of Rev. Wright’s conversation with Moyers: Black churches ...
?Deeper Shade of Blues? performed by Joel P. E. King at The Space
2008-04-26 17:04:00 “Deeper Shade of Blues ,” a two-act one-man show written and performed by Joel P. E. King premiers at The Space . And, there’s still time to see it! Tonight is Saturday at 8 p.m. and tomorrow is Sunday at 6 p.m. for only a $10 admission. Just go to THE SPACE in St. Louis on 320-24 ...
Riehlife Poems of the Day from Sequoyah School, Pasadena, California
2008-04-25 15:43:00 The Wildflowers Were In Bloom (photo by Sequoyah School ) My goddaughter Jennifer Delaquil’s son R. attends Sequoyah School in Pasadena. On my last trip out to Southern California , I visited them there. Josh Brody, Director Sequoyah School, sent out some wonderful poems and photos from a student outing in their newsletter called “News from Beyond ... More About: Los Angeles , Poems , Write
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Turkish poet Crazy Ali recites ?Do You Know??reco
2008-04-24 16:19:00 He introduced himself as ?Crazy Ali?, and he wasn?t thinking about selling something to us. He wanted to share. Crazy Ali, The Turkish Poet (Photo by Marcelline Burns) I asked, ?Who gave you that name?? to which he responded with obvious pride, ?I gave it to myself more than a quarter century ago. I am Crazy ... More About: Write , Poem
Crazy Ali of Turkey: ?The Village Poet,? by Marcelline Burns
2008-04-24 16:17:00 Marcelline (Marcy) Burns is an author-friend I made through her response to “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” and continued penpal correspondence with both my father and myself. She is one of my role models I use when answering the question, “What kind of old woman do I want to be?” This was a question posed to ... More About: Turkey , Write , Crazy , Village
Poem in Your Pocket plus 30 ways + 3 to Celebrate Poetry Month with Pop
2008-04-24 02:43:00 Put a Poem in Your Pocket and share it. What a great idea…on this day, or any day. Poets. Org lists 30 things to do to celebrate poetry month (April, right?). 31) But, here?s one they haven?t thought of. My father, Erwin A. Thompson, encloses a poem along with his bill to the Great Central Lumber Company. ... More About: Poetry , Write , Celebrate
Poetic Asides?Robert Lee Brewer?Writers Digest?Prompts & Poetry
2008-04-23 17:48:00 There’s lots of great poet participation going on over at Poetic Asides blog. Robert provides a poem and poetry prompt each day in April for National Poetry Month. More About: Write , Writers , Digest
Bertha Calloway sailing across the great plains: Black History Museum
2008-04-23 17:30:00 We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. ~Bertha Calloway, Founder of the Great Plains Black Museum More About: History , Grace Notes , Sailing
Kenyan Glimpse: Toy Compound Speaks of Home
2008-04-23 17:20:00 Click here to go to African Great Lakes Initiative Dear Friends, For me the most poignant time of the day was when we were in the field and I noticed a small toy compound obviously made by the kids. Their toy compound was built solely of dirt, rocks, and twigs! Quite neatly and nicely done—much more like ... More About: Kenya , Home , Glimpse
Riehlife Poem of the Day: William Stafford?s ?Note? from ?Allegiances?
2008-04-23 17:06:00 As a candidate for my masters degree in English literature at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville in the early 1970s, I co-edited the literary journal there, “Sou’Wester.” One of my poems that appeared there (juried of course by my co-editor) was “Under Mama’s Yew Tree.” Somehow it came to William Stafford’s attention across the country ... More About: Note , Poem
Riehlife Poem of the Day: New song lyric by Erwin A. Thompson ?Somebody Els
2008-04-22 20:40:00 My father while going through 100s of hours of recorded music tapes (one of his projects this winter is re-recording), he got fed up with all the “cheating” songs. He thought he would put in his version. He stayed up until Midnight writing it and this note that goes along with it. —JGR Erwin A. Thompson , ... More About: Song , Lyric , Poem , New Song
NYC Swap-O-Rama: Reuse & Create! Recycle used clothes! Clean Out Your Close
2008-04-21 20:30:00 “There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.” —Gandhi Wendy Tremayne, mother of the Swap -O-Rama, based in NYC, a brilliant art from recycled materials project, tells us the next Swap-O-Rama has arrived. In between Swap-O-Rama’s she’s been hosting a weekly fabric art party where fabric, friends and fun come together. ... More About: Clothes , Clean , Close , Recycle
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Victor Hernandez Cruz ?Problems with Hurricanes,?
2008-04-21 20:01:00 If you are going out Beware of mangoes And all such beautiful sweet things. —Victor Hernandez Cruz Mango on Tree (USDA) Click here to read an EXCELLENT interview with Victor Hernandeze Cruz on The Poetry Foundation site. Here are some excerpts of questions to whet your appetite: You don?t write what many would call autobiographical lyric poems. Was this a conscious decision? Well, ... More About: Hurricanes , Problems , Poem
Earth Day Poetry link from a 9-year-old blogger in Buenos Aires
2008-04-20 15:55:00 Milou, a 9 year old student from Buenos Aires, put up this blog as a place to share poems for e World Poetry Day (March 21st). On the blog “students, kids and poets, writers and artists from all over the world post a contribution for Earth Day.” Click here to see what they posted to honor ... More About: Blogger , Earth Day , Link
Wole Soyinka, SIU Carbondale: ?Have Culture; Will Dialogue??a dialogue with
2008-04-19 22:35:00 HOMEWORK LINKS 1) Click here to read Obi Nwakanma’s article “Nigeria: A Soyinka Symposium in Carbondale” published in the Vanguard (Lagos) WOLE Soyinka, one of Africa’s leading modernist voices excites a following that is both cultic and diffuse. 2) Also, check out Eyinju Odumare’s photos and commentary “All for Soyinka in Carbondale” —————— ;—— “Culture dialogues anyway,” Soyinka opened, “it’s ... More About: Dialogue
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Obi Nwakanma?s ?Credo? from ?The Horseman and Oth
2008-04-19 20:08:00 Earlier this year Nigerian poet Obi Nwakanma filled my Gathering Room with talk that made the world right for the hours he shared himself and conversation. We exchanged poetry books at the end of our time together and I sent home some of Daniel’s hardworking roses for his wife. In the days that followed our ... More About: Africa , Poem , National Poetry Month
Soyinka in St. Louis Conversation at Black Rep
2008-04-19 19:34:00 Wole Soyinka HOMEWORK LINKS 1) Hear Soyinka’s rolling baritone, relaxed, just chatting, sharing wisdom First, let me give you a link to a 1998 conversation between Harry Kreisler and Wole Soyinka that took place in Berkeley, California as part of the “Conversation s with History” series. What is said is still fresh today, AND you’ll get to hear his ... More About: Black , Louis , St Louis
Soyinka?s ?The Lion & The Jewel? brings total art to Edison Theatre, Washin
More articles from this author:2008-04-19 06:59:00 “The Lion and the Jewel ” written by Wole Soyinka, directed by Ron Himes and presented by the Washington University Performing Arts Department, opened tonightat Washington University’s Edison Theatre in St Louis , Missouri. The play continues through April 27th. The Washington University Performing Arts Department describes the dance-drama cum social satire like this:Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate ... More About: Total 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
