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A Poem for a Thursday #266
Peter Everwine was an American poet who was born in Michigan, grew up in Pennsylvania, and taught at Fresno State University until his retirement in 1992. He is the author of seven collections of poetry and he also worked as a translator. His poems are “revered for their simplicity and clarity of language, often drawing on themes of family and nature.” We walked at the edge of the sea, the dog,still young then, running ahead of us.Few people. Gulls. A flock of pelicanscircled beyond the swells, then closedtheir wings and dropped head-longinto the dazzle of light and sea. You clappedyour hands; the day grew brilliant.Later we sat at a small…
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“I Want to Go to Scotland”
In August of 2019, my daughter and I went on a trip to Scotland. We had the time of our lives. It was one of those magical trips where everything was perfect. You can read a little about that trip here. Our flight home was canceled and we received compensation from the airline. We put that money aside and told Celia that she and I would return to Scotland when she graduated from high school. Little did we know that that promise would become a lifeline that she and I would cling to for the next four years. We had taken the original trip because life had been stressful and…
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A Poem for a Thursday #265
Dorianne Laux is the author of a number of collections of poetry. She is a Pushcart Prize winner and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She says of poetry “Poems keep us conscious of the importance of our individual lives…personal witness of a singular life, seen cleanly and with the concomitant well-chosen particulars, is one of the most powerful ways to do this.” The cat calls for her dinner.On the porch I bend and pour brown soy stars into her bowl,stroke her dark fur.It's not quite night.Pinpricks of light in the eastern sky.Above my neighbor's roof a transparentmoon, a pink rag of…
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Book Review//Someone From the Past: A London Mystery by Margot Bennett
Someone From the Past was originally published in 1958 and won the Crime Writer’s Association award for best crime novel of the year. Margot Bennett never wrote another crime novel. I wish she had because I enjoyed this quite a lot. Nancy and Sarah have been friends for years and their loves and relationships have become very intertwined. When Sarah receives threatening letters she asks Nancy to help her discover who is behind them. The letter says, ‘I haven’t forgotten what you did to me in the past. You don’t deserve to live, what’s a life worth to you? I’ve watched the road you’ve taken. Up to a point, any…
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A Poem for a Thursday #264
Sara Teasdale was born in Missouri and lived from 1884-1933. She wrote seven volumes of poetry and was known for her “well-crafted lyrical poetry which centered on women’s changing perspectives on beauty, love, and death.” In 1918 she won the first Columbia Prize for Poetry, a prize that was renamed the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Life has loveliness to sell All beautiful and splendid things,Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings,And children's faces looking upHolding wonder like a cup.Life has loveliness to sell, Music like a curve of gold,Scent of pine trees in the rain, Eyes that love you, arms that hold,And for your spirit's…
