Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christiansen
The Colonel
By Carolyn Forché
WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD is true. I was in his house. His wife carried a tray of coffee and sugar. His daughter filed her...
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
Thoughts and Considerations for National Poetry Month
By Norah Christianson
April, yes, and you might have heard that April is National Poetry Month. APRIL not because,...
Arts & Lifestyle
The Poetry Corner
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
By Norah Christianson
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
~ By Galway Kinnell
For I can snore like a bullhornor play loud...
Arts & Lifestyle
The Poetry Corner
A Ritual to Read to Each Other
By Norah Christianson
A Ritual to Read to Each Other
By William Stafford
If you don't know the kind of person...
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
Poetry
~ Marianne Moore
I too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it,...
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
In 1999, UNESCO proclaimed March 21 as World Poetry Day. Every day is some kind of day. Potato Chip Day, Take Your...
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
~ William Butler Yeats
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,And a small cabin build there,...
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
 By Norah Christianson
Spring is like a perhaps hand
~~ e. e. cummings
Spring is like a perhaps hand(which comes carefullyout of Nowhere) arranginga window,into which people look...
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
InvictusWilliam Ernest HenleyOut of the night that covers me,      Black as the pit from pole to pole,I thank whatever gods may be      For my...
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
Caged Bird
- Maya Angelou
A free bird leapson the back of the wind   and floats downstream   till the current endsand dips his wingin the orange...
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
Strange FruitAbel Meeropol
Southern trees bear a strange fruitBlood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swingin' in the Southern breeze Strange...