Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Culture

Poetry Corner

By Norah Christianson A Story About the Body By Robert Hass The young composer, working that summer at an artist's colony, had watched her for a week....

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By Norah Christianson Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming” came into my mind the day after October 7th when Hamas attacked Israel. The poem is so...

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By Norah Christianson It’s time for some love. The world is a mess, horror is afoot, governments are nuts, we’re murdering our earth, and there’s...

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By Norah Christianson I have been grieving for Israel and for Palestine, as we all have. I’ve been reflecting on all the war poems in...

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By Norah Christianson Introduction to Poetry By Billy Collins I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an...

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“Traveling thru the Dark” By Norah Christian Traveling Through the Dark By William Stafford Traveling through the dark I found a deer dead on the edge of the Wilson...

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By Norah Christianson Courage By Anne Sexton   It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode...

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By Norah Christianson Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds By William Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments....