<<< All true with the possible exception of the Churchill inspired mission to keep Spain out of the war. By June 1943 there was little danger of Spain joining the Axis. Franco was far too savvy for that. Hitler had pressured Franco to join him in October 1940 when nobody could give ...
These were not so much autonomous sf as celebrations of Space Flight and the Universe inspired by the Soviet/US space race and the unique lexicon of terms, and dreams, which it engendered. A further anthology in Fanzine form was The Purple Hours (anth 1974 chap) edited by Lisa Conesa (...
Second-place honors go to Courtney Thrash, whose rhymed sonnet was inspired by a Maxfield Parrish from 1908 on view at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas: The Lantern Bearers “Who are you?” said I. “Sorcerers? Sideshow?Are you all one or all six that ...
Inspired by Shattuck, who would outlaw “text” as a term for poem or story, George Packer thinks we ought to make up an index of forbidden words. He would ban “place” (as in “I’m coming from a different place”) and “voice” (“she has found her authentic voice”) in worksh...
the plural is "cinquains") as applied by modern poets most correctly refers to a form invented by the American poet Adelaide Crapsey. The first examples of these were published in 1915 in The Complete Poems, roughly a year after her death. Her cinquain form was inspired by Japanese haiku ...
The result is that he creates once-in-a-lifetime events — no two are the same! — that leave you energized and inspired. You’ll also probably leave with a new friend or two. I call RA my Allen Ginsberg. Like the Beat poet, RA is a poet who works tirelessly on behalf of other...
upon him all the trappings of the world with which for years he may perhaps have been clothing his soul - the world's knowingness, its cynicism, its self-seeking, its ambition - fall away, and the man becomes an inspired child again, with ears attuned to nothing but the whispers of ...
In nearly every part of the world, narrative poetry established a foundation for other literary forms. For example, among the highest achievements of ancient Greece are "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey," which have inspired artists and writers for more than 2,000 years. ...
has been for poetry — for poetry in its widest and wildest sense — for poetry untrammelled by the laws of sense, rhyme, or rhythm, soaring through the universe, and echoing the music of the spheres! From my youth, nay, from my very cradle, I have yearned for poetry, for beauty,...
Brookhaven was inspired by his own family stories of an ancestor—a teen who walked the many miles home after his long, hard days in the Civil War, only to discover that his family was no longer there. Author’s Note We thought you might enjoy hearing the Author’s Note from Glynn, ...