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Monthly Archives: September 2023
Poems for Judaism’s High Holy Days
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Days of Awe", "In Memory of W. B. Yeats", Alicia Ostriker, High Holy Days, Rosh Hashanah, W. H. Auden Comments closed
MAGA “Justice” and the Queen of Hearts
“Sentence first, verdict afterwards,” say both MAGA Republicans and Lewis Carroll’s Queen of Hearts.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Alice in Wonderland, GOP, impeachment, Lewis Carroll, MAGA Comments closed
Lit’s Neurological Benefits
In his neurological study of fiction’s impact, Angus Fletcher looks at various literary elements.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Angus Fletcher, Aristotle, neurocriticism, Wonderworks Comments closed
The Joys of September Threshing
Kavanagh captures the joys of communal farming in this harvesting poem. My farmer’s-daughter wife says he’s spot on.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "On an Apple-Ripe September Morning", "September", farming, harvesting, Patrick Kavanagh Comments closed
Best of Times or Worst of Times?
The opening lines of “Tale of Two Cities” capture our reality only too well.
A Blacksmith Poem for Labor Day
A Seamus Heaney blacksmith poem for Labor Day.
God Reaches Us through Art
I share a talk about the relationship between God and creativity. Authors mentioned: Shelley, Homer, Plato, Silko, Walker, Clifton.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Ode to the West Wind", "the light that came to lucille clifton", Alice Walker, Artist's Way, Ceremony, Color Purple, Creativity, Homer, Intimations of Immortality, Ion, John Milton, Julia Cameron, Leslie Marmon Silko, Lucille Clifton, Paradise Lost, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Plato, poetic muse, Republic, William Wordsworth Comments closed
