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Talkative Silences - … History is a nailing of the past … This is from A Lover’s Quarrel with the Past: Romance, Representation, Reading by Ranjan Ghosh (2012): … Historians no...36 minutes ago
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Writer’s Digest Best Creativity Websites 2026 - Here are the top creativity websites as identified in the 28th Annual 101 Best Websites from the May/June 2026 issue of Writer’s Digest. The post Writer’...18 hours ago
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The Meaning of Maturity: Ursula K. Le Guin on What It Really Takes to Grow Up - It is not merely a matter of growing bones and growing responsibilities, this business of growing up, this unfinishable project of becoming ourselves. It i...4 days ago
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Lakewood Poet Elliot Nicely Wins Honorable Mention - On May 16th, in recognition of his debut collection *Sine Qua Non* (Red Moon Press), *Elliot Nicely* received an Honorable Mention in the 2026 Marianne ...3 weeks ago
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The Debate of the Decade: Pope Leo IV vs. Donald J Trump - Shady Vance told Pope Leo not to comment on politics. Meanwhile, President Trump is going feet first into religion. He started with a midnight-tweeted ima...1 month ago
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Stay away from the pool - My mother & I were visiting a friend of hers who was living in an apartment complex that I regarded at the time as positively palatial, what for the commun...2 years ago
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In Memory of Ed Ochester, Poet & Editor, RIP - We have asked Ed Ochester (above) to edit our Sunday poetry pages for the next few months. Here is one of Ed's poems: March of the Penguins The editor of N...2 years ago
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“In spite of all the learned have said ...” - Philip Freneau Philip Freneau (1752-1852) was a journalist and poet in the early years our country was forming. And, oh, by the way, I once wrote an under...4 years ago
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Lit Youngstown Hosts Heather Dobbins & Barbara Sabol - I closing in on scheduling Lit Youngstown's 2021 First Wednesday Readers Series, and we're soon hosting the last reading of 2020. It's one of the many...5 years ago
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Balance is important in design - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa. Cum sociis Theme natoque penatibus et magnis dis ...6 years ago
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Proof of Life - Um, hello? Is this thing on? I am writing from the Central Time Zone, as we have officially moved to Oxford, Mississippi for the academic year! And I have ...6 years ago
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Another Visit to DeLasalle Middle School at the end of March - About sixty sixth graders read The Life and Times of Benny Alvarez at DeLasalle. I went to visit, and their questions were excellent. They all wish there...7 years ago
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Lana K. W. Austin - Lana K. W. Austin’s poems, short stories, and reviews have recently been featured in *Mid-AmericanReview, Sou’wester, Columbia Journal, Zone 3, Appalachia...7 years ago
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Window (The Disappeared Grandchild) | blackout: venezuela in collapse | Joseph Ceravolo: Migratory Noon - . [image: El Salvador, 1974 | by Marcelo Montecino] *El Salvador, 1974*: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 3 September 2010 [image: Morgue, San Salvador, 82 | ...7 years ago
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The translucent veil of life - Haha, so the truth comes out. Having 2 children is A LOT more work than 1! I haven't been able to get out of the rocking chair more than a few moment...8 years ago
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Voices in Italian Americana reviews Paola Corso’s “The Laundress Catches Her Breath” - Paola Corso’s poems about women’s work and lives bring to life an intimate and fragile world without a hint of sentimentality. Take “Step by Step with the ...9 years ago
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On the move - *Gal about town, photo by Bob Perkoski* Dear readership, Your humble hostess has been doing a whole lot of what is depicted in today's photo: walking aro...10 years ago
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Strawberry Month - The strawberry sweets at Lagusta's Luscious this month are insane! I missed out last year and decided that this year I would take full advantage. I luck...10 years ago
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TC: Why Hillary Became a Goddess on the Night of Her Acceptance Speech - . *Hillary Clinton greets a supporter following her address at the 18th Annual David N. Dinkins Leadership and Public Policy Forum at Columbia University ...11 years ago
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AWP in Minneapolis, and recommended reading - Again I've been away from this blog longer than I'd intended. Much busy with writing, and reading, and life in general. I'll be attending the annual AWP co...11 years ago
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Remixing the World's Problems Results - The one thing about judging poetry is that it often takes me much longer than I expect. For everyone who has waited so patiently for me to get these result...11 years ago
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In a Landscape - The Playlist - John Cage, “In a Landscape” Bob Dylan, “My Back Pages” Neil Young, “Ambulance Blues” The Twilight Zone Theme Babylon 5 Theme Simon & Garfunkel, “Richard Co...11 years ago
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4 comments:
Nin, some views of the windhover in flight.
Those birds are a piece of work. Big, extremely fast, and... they don't kid around.
(GMH mixing them up with God like that always made me feel... a little funny.)
Yes, it is a little funny.
But seeing them fly . . . seeing birds is somehow so uplifting.
I once watched a young hawk trying to catch a squirrel. It failed, over and over again, swooping down -- as the squirrel dodged easily.
The first time I encountered "The Windhover" was when I heard the actor Richard Thomas (as John-Boy on "The Waltons") read it out loud. He gave a "sensitive poet" reading, though not too overdone. He read it to his (i.e. John-Boy's) mother -- I seem to recall that they were outdoors, sitting under a tree.
When he finished reading it, his mother commented that the poem was just lovely, then asked, "What's it mean?"
Odd, the world fictional T.V. characters live in.
I haven't read much Hopkins, though when I occasionally get an urge to read English poems from before the 20th century, his poem "The Windhover" is one of the poems I often seek out.
Good blog. I have a real soft spot for this Manley Hopkins poem http://caroleschatter.blogspot.co.nz/2011/12/great-poem-by-manley-hopkins.html
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