Poets remind us of how it was – and how, in fact, it still is
One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings. – Franklin Thomas The …
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Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight? -Al Boliska As I have mentioned several thousand times before, a technology whiz I am not. I used to be, but missed one day of paying attention (June 5, 1989), and am interminably behind as a …
Put a poem in your pocket
Get out! It’s "Poem in Your Pocket Day" today. Who knew? My friend and hula hooper extraordinaire, Mary, just emailed to tell me. So, depending on where you live, you might still have a few hours of "Poem in Your Pocket Day" left–get a poem in that pocket post haste! …
Turns out, life really IS a verb!
I told Mr Brilliant last night that the next post to 37days would be my 500th post. That would be this one. We looked for poems that featured the number 500. To no avail (except for the really horrible poem about the Indy 500, to which even in the most …
Poets are our night lights
Night Light The moon is not green cheese.It is china and stands in this room.It has a ten-watt bulb and a motto:Made in Japan. Whey-faced, doll-faced,it’s closed as a toothand cold as the dead are coldtill I touch the switch. Then the moon performs its one trick:it turns into a …
Poets help us fly
Do Not Be Ashamed You will be walking some nightin the comfortable dark of your yardand suddenly a great light will shineround about you, and behind youwill be a wall you never saw before.It will be clear to you suddenlythat you were about to escape,and that you are guilty: you …
Poets seek inspiration, just like us
I so love this. We know poets write from some sad, dark places. But sometimes, as a tiny poet named Caspar shows us, poets write from happiness. With Liv Ullmann’s beautiful voice telling me a simple tale, all the way from Denmark. A tale of a Danish poet. Oh, go …
Poets help us inhabit a new space
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. -Leonard Cohen It’s April 1st, and you know what that means. No, I’m not finished with my women’s history month posts so we’ll just pretend that women’s history month is every month …
