Tag: poem

• At a Loss for Words: A Book Review

  You know that feeling when you have a bug bite that has scabbed over and you pick at it and pick at it and make it bleed even though it is hurting and you know that you are making it hurt? That’s sort of the feeling I had while reading Stephanie Butland’s novel The Lost…

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  October 21, 2018

  Essay

  Cornwall, Devon, England, Nell Freudenberger, poem, poetry, Stepanie Butland, The Lost for Words Bookshop, The Newlyweds, Whitby, York

• Poetry 101

  It’s early April and a damp, gloomy day out. Yet, in spite of the temperature being in the 40’s this morning, signs of spring are visible. When driving my daughter to the metro today I pointed out to her the forsythia in full bloom up and down both sides of the street. I told her…

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  April 12, 2015

  Essay

  Cecil Spring Rice, e. e. cummings, edgar allan poe, Eleanor Farjeon, Emily Dickinson, forsythia, Gustav Holst, John F. Kennedy, Jupiter, literature, mary ellen solt, poem, poetic, poetry, Robert Frost, spring, teaching, The Planets, W. H. Auden, Walt Whitman, william carlos williams, william shakespeare