Public speaking at a funeral is a common practice, especially if the service will be formal or held in a church. However, if you are not the kind of person who can write a eulogy, or you are not quite up to the task of opening your heart and sharing personal memories of the past, ...
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For the most dissonant night charms us, even after death. This, after all, may be happiness: tuba notes awash on the great flood, ruptures of xylophone, violins, limpets, grace-notes, the musical instrument called serpent, viola da gambas, aeolian harps, clavicles, pinball machines, electri...
Byline: CELIA WALDEN My funeral plans will have a very strong Northern flavour, but I tend...Walden, Celia
Gustafsson had attended a funeral of a friend at which Flemming’sInteger Vitaehad been sung by the congregation, and the friend’s widow had asked him to translate the whole poem for her — an awkward dilemma, as Lalage is not especially funereal. What’s interesting is that Ulrichs, who...
Palestinian mourners carry the body of 11-year-old Hussain Hamad, killed by an Israeli military airstrike, during his funeral in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) Gaza weeps alone. Bombs falling without end ...
This fact weighs on her now that her son, Courtney, needs cash for a down payment on a house. As she’s despairing, a large tech company writes with a strange offer: Collaborate on a poem with Charlotte, an A.I. writing program, in exchange for a large chunk of cash. This is ...
Monroe Wheeler (1899-1998), whose friendship with Moore spanned their meeting in her first years in New York to her funeral in Brooklyn, published Moore’s poem “Marriage” as the third in his “Manikin” series, in 1923. Wheeler’s devotion to poetry and printing combined early when his...
The President’s Lifetime Service Award is given to an individual who has furthered the knowledge, appreciation, and acceptance of the speculative poetry genre, and who has served the SFPA in a significant volunteer capacity. Members vote on nominees for the Grand Master Award; and upon the ...