Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
After Forty Year of Marriage, She Tries
A New Recipe for Hamburger Hot Dish
By Leo Dangel
“How did you like it?” she asked.
“It’s all...
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
Piano
By D.H. Lawrence
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I...
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The Poetry Corner: Loafing
Raymond Carver
By Norah Christianson
Loafing
By Raymond Carver
I looked into the room a moment ago,
and this is what I saw —
my chair in its place by...
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Shine, Perishing Republic
Robinson Jeffers
By Norah Christianson
By Robinson Jeffers
While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity,
..........heavily thickening to empire,
And protest, only a bubble...
Arts & Lifestyle
The Poetry Corner
Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert
By Norah Christianson
Failing and Flying
By Jack Gilbert
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.
It's the same when love comes to an...
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Good Bones by Maggie Smith
By Norah Christianson
Good Bones
By Maggie Smith
Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened...
Arts & Lifestyle
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Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX)–Edna St. Vincent Millay
By Norah Christianson
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof...
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner: Lamb
Michael Dennis Browne
By Norah Christianson
Michael Dennis Browne was born in England in 1940, and came to the United States in 1965. He has taught...