Celebrate national Poem In Your Pocket Day on Thursday, April 14, 2011! The idea is simple: select a poem you love during National Poetry Month then carry it with you to share with co-workers, family, and friends. Poems from pockets will be unfolded throughout the day with events in parks, libraries, schools, workplaces, and bookstores. Create [...]
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Poem In Your Pocket Day!
Posted in Ethos, tagged Arts, National Poetry Month, New York City, Poem in Your Pocket: 200 Poems to Read and Carry, Poetry, Portable Document Format, Renaissance, thoughts, World War II on April 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tea Stained Threads
Posted in Love Poems, tagged Arts, Color, Ecru, grace, hope, human frailty, inner beauty, memories, mercy, nature, Thread on April 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
two spools laden with fibers of the same weight color name may actually be tainted with deception lying the threads side by side on a contrasting background in the light of a golden autumns’ afternoon those threads can fool and shame even the most discriminating eye even the eye that belongs to the hands that [...]
An Apology For Poetry
Posted in My Book Notes, tagged art, Arts, inner beauty, Literature, Poetry, Scripture, thoughts, truth on March 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Excerpts taken from An Apology For Poetry Sir Philip Sydney (1554-1586) Century Reading For A Course In English Literature Copyright, 1910, 1918 by The Century Co. But since I have run so long a career in this matter, methinks, before I give my pen a full stop, it shall be but a little more lost [...]
Writing On Water
Posted in Ethos, tagged Allegheny River, Allegheny Valley Poets, Arts, Carnegie Museum of Art, Duquesne University, Oakmont Carnegie Library, Poetry, Rita Dove, Writing On Water on January 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other. ~Rita Dove Dear Reader, I am pleased to announce that the members of the Allegheny Valley Poets have published our first book of poetry! Allow me [...]
I Am No Van Gogh
Posted in Alchemy, tagged Arts, dreams, grace, hope, inner beauty, Online Writing, Poetry, thoughts, truth, Writers Resources on October 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Dear Reader, This post today, this 3rd day of October, 2010, is my 100th post. I am in gratitude to you and your encouragement through your comments and in our conversations. I have been writing creatively for most of my life. Several of my dearest friends inspired me throughout the years to pursue something more [...]
