Tag: W. H. Auden

• Book Review: When the Moon Turns Blue by Pamela Terry

  “You can take the girl out of the South, but you can’t take the South out of the girl.” The older I get, the more I identify with this old saying.  I’m a Southern girl, born and raised in Louisiana, but have now lived in Maryland (NOT the South, no matter what you Yankees say…

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  October 12, 2022

  books, Essay

  Bury What We Cannot Take, debut novel, Georgia, Kim Wright, Kirstin Chen, NetGalley, Pamela Terry, Paul Bunyan operetta, racism, sophomore novel, Southerner, Soy Sauce for Beginners, The Sweet Taste of Muscadines, W. H. Auden, When the Moon Turns Blue

• 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