“and next year’s words await another voice.” To that observation, we can add: this past year’s words also define the language, the conversations, or more accurately, the zeitgeist of the year. Editors of dictionaries take one of two approaches to determine the word of the year...
Anne Simpson was a happy discovery for me more than a dozen years ago when she was speaking and mentoring at Seawords, a workshop series on PEI (which marked the first time I set foot on the island). And while I’ve loved the magic of the poetic form ever since discovering, as a ...
Poetry scholarships are typically based on contests, where poets need to write an unpublished poem for review. The Just Poetry Scholarship is one of these. This contest awards winning U.S. high school students with up to $500. New contests are held each quarter. Additionally, 4 “Best of ...
Also a group of people in “The Odyssey” (an ancient Greek epic poem) Variants: Dorrian and Doryan Linus Origin: Greek boy name Meaning:“Flax” or “flax colored” Pronunciation:“la-nuhs” Length: 5 letters, 2 syllables Popularity/Rank: 1,000+ Namesakes: One of the Greek...
There are all sorts of ways to fill it; you could take your child to a gallery, go to the park to collect materials for a nature collage, help them write a poem inspired by the day’s weather… The possibilities are endless.
The protagonist of Surfaing shares with her creator a love of the mcks and lakes of the Shield; when she goes off by herrelf in a canoe IO fish, simply because that is what site delights to do. she tells us this, but she can't make us feel it because she can't tell about the...
One day, I presented one of my poems to my teacher, ___42___ opinion I wanted as to whether or not the poem was any good. While he was scanning the lines, I waited in anxiety, wondering ___43___ he would say about it. But he said it was wonderful. Later, he encouraged ...
Such inscriptions were common in the ancient world (as their tamer successors are common today). But somehow their irony was well captured by my childhood favorite poem,Shelley’s “Ozymandias” (named afterRamses II of Egypt): “I met a traveller from an antique land, ...
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Aegista species of land snails are recorded from lowland broadleaf and evergreen forests, and are usually found under fallen trees or leaf litter or attached to the stems and leaves of plants [2]. A. chejuensis and A. quelpartensis, reported from under shrubs and stone piles on Jeju ...