Although there are important similarities between the life courses of men and women, there are significant differences as well. In this chapter we explore aspects of these differences. If the study of midlife is a frontier, the study of women in midlife is the remotest outpost on that frontier...
I think my first year in graduate school, I was in a seminar on Russian romantic poetry, and I encountered Nekrasov through this, and I ended up writing my seminar paper on Nekrasov’s seduction poems. He has these poems that are, I think, something that might be familiar to us today:...
she often fuses prose and poetry into haibun about the people and places she’s loved. Her collectionPrayer for the Dead, which contains many of these pieces, had the good fortune of receiving a Haiku Society of America
increase our pulse, or help us relax. Music with lyrics can do the same thing, but the added dimension of words with the music impacts our thoughts and feelings on a different level. What poetry does without music; song lyrics achieve in combination with it. It is much like poetry...
"Nye's sheer joy in communicating, creativity, and caring shine through."—Kirkus ReviewsA moving and celebratory poetry collection from Young People's Poet Laureate and National Book Award Finalist Naomi Shihab Nye. This resonant volume explores the similarities we share with the people around us...
William Waters has examined the value of poetry as lyric address in the way that lyric poems mediate contact between poet and reader: “When poems address their readers, the topic of the pronounyouand the topic of reading (what it is like to be a person reading a poem) become two sides...
Your comrades are busy protesting and risking their lives and you’re sitting in this room writing rhymes! This is not the time! You know who writes poetry? Rich Europeans. Because their lives are perfect so they have to make up something to keep it interesting. Liberate your country first...
Similarities We are Sharing * Don’t look away Because they don’t have enough Even it up Or just don’t be too rough There’s good reason for for sharing It helps us build better stuff To become more aware We need peace and love ...
"Poetry. I know it when I see it, but I can't do it. Same with anything "in verse". I admire authors who can do it well." -Brodi Ashton, author ofEverneath. "I found screenplay format to be absolutely impossible. I’d love to try stage play one day, though." -Anna Sheehan,...
Near day's end, I point my toes along an untamed path, where poetry falls in sheaves of autumn shed; where layer upon layer lies mulched in volumes of composting print, [archaic type] that has been atomizing along its underbelly since Adam; and I hear, and I feel the breath of the ...