Blogs about: Gerald Manley Hopkins
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One Fine Day
These pics are a photographic collage my daughter Elise took (and some by my husband) of her and my jaunt around the garden, across the meadow, past the pond, and up through the fields to the woods ab… more →
One Writer's Way
IT'S SPRING!
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Baby hummingbirds just before they fledged from their nest outside my friend Samara Louton’s S … more →
Guest Blogger Dave Lynden...Remembering How the Story Began
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wrote 1 month ago: In celebration of Autism Awareness Month, we plan to introduce our readers to several fathers of chi … more →
Learning to Levitate Poem #4
wrote 1 month ago: [And one more day remaining. I do work on these poems for quite a while… Two hours about. An experim … more →
‘Then Spree’ by Nia Davies
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wrote 1 month ago: -Reviewed by Donald Gardner- Much of Then Spree, Nia Davies’s first pamphlet of poems, reads like a … more →
A time to laugh
wrote 1 month ago: The human species is distinctive in at least three ways, said poet W. H. Auden. We are the only anim … more →
Gerald Manley Hopkins on Spring
wrote 2 months ago: Nothing is so beautiful as spring— When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush … more →
Gerald Manley Hopkins Welcomes Spring
wrote 2 months ago: Nothing is so beautiful as spring— When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush … more →
London 2012 #1
wrote 2 months ago: So mass emigration’s upside, visiting siblings, sprang again and this time it was the sprawlin … more →
The Next Big Thing
wrote 4 months ago: I’ve been invited by the poet Amy Key to take part in this blog series where writers answer th … more →
"oh the mind, mind has mountains"
wrote 5 months ago: No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder … more →
Two minute poetry
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wrote 5 months ago: My friend Roya is a clown. Not in the sense that she is the funny one in the office, the one that ma … more →
Ben Okri in Edinburgh and Cape Town
wrote 7 months ago: “We have to rediscover Africa. The first encounter with Africa by Europe was the wrong one. It was n … more →
Carrion Comfort - Gerald Manley Hopkins
wrote 7 months ago: This is National Poetry Day. I have sought to choose a poem to post that will combine two of my most … more →
What We Talk About When We Talk About Writers: An Interview With M.F.A. Student Carol Jewell
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wrote 8 months ago: Welcome to another installment of WWTA. Over the course of the semester, we’re going to be int … more →
Thanks, Oprah!
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wrote 8 months ago: She’s still looking good, folks! Yes, I am talking about Oprah Winfrey and her gratitude journ … more →
Tuesday Poem - Repeat that, repeat (Gerald Manley Hopkins)
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wrote 8 months ago: This week’s Tuesday Poem is from the deep, deep wells of Victorian poetry, with English poet a … more →
God's Grandeur
wrote 8 months ago: God’s Grandeur by Gerald Manley Hopkins ~ The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It wi … more →
No worst, there is none
wrote 10 months ago: No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder … more →
Pied Beauty versus Homogeny
wrote 10 months ago: My other half and I have been cutting back on meat consumption, for moral and health reasons. We oft … more →
