Arts: Friday Poem THE RABBITSMICHAEL LASKEY
I believe in daily poetry, but I fell off the Stanford Challenge for writing a poem a day. Lately the new book from Sarah Donovan, Mo Daley, and Maureen Young Ingram,90 Ways of Communityis helping. Each day I present one of the prompts to my students and write alongside them. They ar...
If there were ever a time demanding religious imagination—the ability to see resurrection light even on Good Friday—this is it. Such envisioning will be one of the ongoing tasks ofThe Religious Imagineer. But we can’t just leap into Easter. We must first do our time at the foot of th...
My daughter invited us over for a barbeque dinner on Friday. Friday is also the girls’ movie night. While the girls watched the movie after dinner, my daughter and I enjoyed a game of Scrabble. It was our favorite game. We may get together on Fridays regularly. . Tanka Tuesday:Summer ...
Updated Friday Oct. 13, 2023 to include info about Kendrick Lamar's most recent GRAMMY wins, as of the 2023 GRAMMYs. A GRAMMY veteran these days,Kendrick Lamarhas won 17 GRAMMYs and has received 47 GRAMMY nominations overall. A sizable chunk of his trophies came from the 5...
(December 6) bringing modest gifts of candy and other gifts to children. InNorthAmericathe pre-Christmas role of the Christian saint Nicholas was transformed, under the influence of the poem“A Visit from St. Nicholas” (or “’Twas the Night Before Christmas”), into the increasingly central...
Some returned to the area after the war, while others settled in French Louisiana, where their descendants became known as Cajuns. The exile of the Acadians from Nova Scotia was famously dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s narrative poem Evangeline (1847)....
The Salamander 2024 Fiction Prize offers writers the opportunity to submit their works for consideration. The contest includes a first prize of $1,000 and publication, and a second prize of $500 and publication. Entries will be judged anonymously, and all submissions are also considered for publi...
1 In addition to being a personal reminiscence, this poem is intended to document the vanishing art of operating alarge marine steam power plant. These annotations amplify on the text and give additional technical details.2 While watch standers could be and were assigned to any watch in the ...
Book Excerpt: ‘Let Me Finish’ From ‘Cleopatra and Frankenstein’Zoe, too broke for plans, finds herself at a free Friday-night orgasm workshop. She leaves dissatisfied — and with a tempting job offer. ByCoco Mellors selfJan. 24, 2022 ...