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Winifred Gill and the Omega Workshops

Christine Cariati wrote 2 days ago: by Christine Cariati Winifred Gill, Sketch of dancers, 1916 Pencil, ink and watercolor on paper The … more →

Tags: ceramics, Christine Cariati, Design, Embroidery, Fashion, Fine & Decorative Arts, furniture, Rugs, Textiles

William Butler Yeats1 comment

lkthayer wrote 4 days ago: “A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and … more →

Tags: Quotes, Lovers, L.K. Thayer's Poetry Juice Bar, happiness, Mermaid, cruel, drown

PEDANTS OF POETRY: THE TOP TEN2 comments

thomasbrady wrote 1 week ago: ~ ~ Paul Valery (top), Polonius & T.S. Eliot The last 100 years have seen more pedantry in poetr … more →

Tags: make it new, Alexander Pope, Allen Tate, Aristotle, byron, charles bernstein, Cleanth Brooks, Dante, Derrida

Paul Kurtz Gives an Answer to This Question: Is There Such a Thing as an Atheist Fundamentalist?

santitafarella wrote 1 week ago: Curiously, in the most recent dead tree edition of Free Inquiry (Dec. 2009/Jan. 2010), the 84 year o … more →

Tags: Fundamentalism, Religion, God, Atheism, Agnosticism, atheist, Philosophy, Paul Kurtz

The Lamentation Of The Old Pensioner

meorthethoughtofme wrote 2 weeks ago: Although I shelter from the rain Under a broken tree, My chair was nearest to the fire In every comp … more →

Tags: Quotes and poems, Poetry, time, The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner, Poem

POEM OF THE DAY: The Lake Isle of Innisfree

wepoplaski wrote 2 weeks ago: by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939).   The Lake Isle of Innisfree  (1914)   I will arise and go now, … more →

Tags: poem-of-the-day, Poem, Poetry, The Lake Isle of Innisfree

When You Are Old

sekanblogger wrote 3 weeks ago: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) WHEN you are old and gray and full of sleep, And nodding by the fir … more →

Tags: Poetry, History

Do you look like yourself?2 comments

befaithfulbefabulous wrote 3 weeks ago: I was inspired to write this after reading Jennine’s story “Everyone is Beautiful” … more →

Tags: Spiritual, Beauty, Inspiration, authenticity

"A Deep-Sworn Vow" by William Butler Yeats

jdhays wrote 4 weeks ago: OTHERS because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I loo … more →

Tags: Poetry, A Deep-Sworn Vow

The Second Coming

Shannon wrote 1 month ago: Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the … more →

Tags: Poems, Second Coming

POEM OF THE DAY: To an Isle in the Water

wepoplaski wrote 1 month ago: by William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939). To an Isle in the Water Shy one, shy one, Shy one of my heart … more →

Tags: poem-of-the-day, Poem, Poetry, To an Isle in the Water

Brown Penny

ginamtheresa wrote 1 month ago: I whispered, ‘I am too young,’ And then, ‘I am old enough’; Wherefore I thre … more →

Tags: Poetry, Poems, Christopher Plummer

never give all the heart?2 comments

Andrea wrote 1 month ago: This William Butler Yeats (1865-1935) poem has always been one of my favorites. I have wondered at i … more →

Tags: Poetry

DAVID LEHMAN TO WILLIAM LOGAN: WAAAAAHH!1 comment

thomasbrady wrote 1 month ago: David Lehman uses half his introduction to Best American Poetry 2009 to attack William Logan. Now we … more →

Tags: Thomas Brady, Ezra Pound, Harold Bloom, Scarriet, Edgar Allan Poe, T. S. Eliot, modern poetry, Yvor Winters, Wallace Stevens

"HARRIET SEES NOTHING ON HARRIET!" An Open Letter.7 comments

Christopher Woodman wrote 1 month ago: Here’s looking at you, Don Share — “politically, personally, and poetically! … more →

Tags: Blog:Harriet, Poetry Foundation, travis nichols, Thomas Brady, Scarriet, modern poetry, Desmond Swords, don share, Martin Earl

SMOKING MAKES NOTHING HAPPEN1 comment

thomasbrady wrote 1 month ago: Drugs like caffeine and  nicotine are wonderful stimulants for poetry. Five packs a day, and you, to … more →

Tags: Blog:Harriet, Thomas Brady, Scarriet, modern poetry, don share, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Horror, John Keats, W H Auden

the white birds :: william butler yeats

supriyanna wrote 1 month ago: I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea: We tire of the flame of the me … more →

Tags: Poems

HI, COUP! THE 'HAIKU COUP D'ETAT' OF MODERNISM'S FANATICAL IMAGISTE CULT 4 comments

thomasbrady wrote 1 month ago: Everyone knows the Poetic Modernism Revolution begain with the Imagists, but few appreciate the role … more →

Tags: Thomas Brady, Ezra Pound, make it new, Scarriet, Fugitives, modern poetry, Imagists, Yone Noguchi, John Crowe Ransom

Descant in Song

extrasimile wrote 1 month ago: 1. Say frost kills flowers, kills The roots, freezes the stem, stamen, stills all The heliotropic da … more →

Tags: Literacy, Ralph Waldo Emerson


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