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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 ...
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 Poems 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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Riehlife Bonus Poem of the Day: Wislawa Szymborska?s ?The Kindness of the B
2008-04-16 12:53:00 The Kindness of the Blind by Wislawa Szymborska (Nobel Prize in Literature 1996) Translated from the Polish by J. Kostkowska A poet is reading to the blind. He did not suspect it was so hard. His voice is breaking. His hands are shaking. He feels that here each sentence is put to the test of the dark. It will have to fend for itself without ...
Riehlife Bonus Poem of the Day: Freida L. Wheaton?s ?Saint Louis Summer of
2008-04-14 15:29:00 Photo from www.moonraker.com I met Freida L. Wheaton in 2005 at an African American Art Collectors forum at the St. Louis Art Musem. Mother was alive then, still kicking and needing care. I’d gone off on this huge adventure to the big city and it was on that day I met Freida, in all her clarity, ...
Riehlife Bonus Poem of the Day: ?Mama?s Powder Puff Was Rough and Tough,? b
2008-04-11 15:51:00 I met Linda Darnece Jones at Kwaanza six days into the new year and we started a conversation about her art and poetry. I heard Linda read “Mama’s Powder Puff Was Rough and Tough” at a recent Women’s Art and Vision event and asked her if she’d let us share it on Riehlife, to which ...
National Poetry Month Endangered!
2008-04-02 04:11:00 I’ve just received this important message from the American Academy of Poets. Due to the vital information contained, I am printing the entire text as received. God bless America. April 1, 2008?When the Academy of American Poets announced the launch of a mobile version of their poetry archive in March, no one could have predicted that ...
Free 2008 National Poetry Month Poster
2008-01-27 22:13:00 http://www.poets.org/posterRequ-est.php SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Free 2008 National Poetry Month Poster", url: "http://www.freestufftimes.com/-27/free-2008-national-poetry-mo-nth-poster/" });
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30 Things to Do to Celebrate National Poetry Month?Plus Three More?What abo
2007-04-10 14:00:00 Poets. Org has a wonderful list of 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. The women down there enjoy this so much that when once he arrived ...
Free 2007 National Poetry Month Poster
2007-02-04 02:08:02 http://poets.org/posterRequest.-php Discuss this in the forum
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