It IS National Poetry Month, so I shouldn’t let it get away without a current Poetry Post. This one from fellow Kansan Albert Goldbarth, who teaches at Wichita State University and who is the only poet to have twice won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. This poem is from the “new” section [...]
Posted on April 14th, 2007 by Shotts
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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
I [...]
Posted on April 11th, 2007 by J.E.
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I mentioned in the Potter post that I couldn’t remember where I “picked up” the beliefs similar to “Nonviolent Communication” concepts that Peters and Amanda champion but now I realize that they came from a book I read over ten years ago called The Moral Animal, by Robert Wright (suggested to me by Liz). [...]
Posted on April 7th, 2007 by J.E.
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I read a fascinating article in the Guardian Books section a few days ago and have been trying to find time to share it with you. This is an excerpt from Barbara Ehrenreich’s new book, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy. I have posted only the skeleton of her thesis. [...]
Posted on April 5th, 2007 by J.E.
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Posted on March 28th, 2007 by Tobias
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Two poems for you this Saint Patrick’s Day weekend. The first from Seamus Heaney, his ars poetica. The second from Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, about her decision to write in the Irish language, followed by an English translation by Paul Muldoon.
Slainte!
–Shotts
Personal Helicon
for Michael Longley
As a child, they could not keep me from wells
And old pumps with [...]
Posted on March 16th, 2007 by Shotts
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Here’s a brief poem by one of my teachers, Mary Jo Bang. –Shotts
The Cruel Wheel Turns Twice
And tightens until language can’t bear this
Hollowing, crash cart, Please. In the silence,
A bus slithers by
A din. The aluminium morning moves like a train,
A metal rod
Exiting a tunnel, dropped in a gate groove.
Disappointment. And again The End gate
Opens [...]
Posted on March 8th, 2007 by Shotts
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Posted on March 5th, 2007 by Ned
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I read this (below) at the end of an article, “Unhappy Meals,” in The New York Times Magazine, January 28, 2007. It is by Michael Pollan, whose most recent book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, was chosen by the editors of The New York Times Book Review as one of the 10 best books of 2006.
This is [...]
Posted on February 5th, 2007 by Shotts
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The last couple of days, I’ve been repairing a hole in our dining room ceiling, sanding, priming, and painting. Meanwhile, I’ve had on Minnesota Public Radio and occasionally CNN. Everything is abuzz with list of “The Top _________ of 2006″ (fill in the blank with “celebrities,” “movies,” “songs,” “albums,” “newsmakers,” and so on). Most of [...]
Posted on December 30th, 2006 by Shotts
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And now, looking ahead, it must be asked: what do you foresee in 2007? This can either be predictions of important events or people, or it could take the form of personal New Years resolutions. It’s always such a reflective time. I’m reminded that the month of January comes from Janus, the Roman god of [...]
Posted on December 30th, 2006 by Shotts
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Posted on December 21st, 2006 by J.E.
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For those of you who want an update, I received my first response to my letters to my two Congressman and my eight reps. from Ron Kind (democrat in house). It was a form letter, emphasizing that Kind voted for both intitiatives that the White House has passed regarding Sudan and Chad conflicts. The second [...]
Posted on November 20th, 2006 by Ned
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If you want to see a few (slightly blurry) images of the children’s book I illustrated for St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, called The Man and the Vine, you can go to www.svspress.com. Scroll down below the search and find the catalog (PDF format). Clicking on this will bring up the catalog. The cover of the [...]
Posted on October 25th, 2006 by Ned
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I recently saw an interview on Sixty Minutes in which an American doctor (working in Darfur, Sudan) accused the Bush administration of refusing to send in intervention forces because they were receiving information on Osama Bin Laden from the men in power. Osama apparently visited the current president to recruit men. When a German [...]
Posted on October 25th, 2006 by Ned
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