More fundamentally, Civ leans on assumptions that we enlightened post-post-modern critics still depend on even though we know we shouldn’t, which makes it a great primer for discussing how those assumptions might be problematized –that is, rendered into a form where we can discuss and examin...
until we reached the point where the very notion of male and female was scorned and ridiculed as just another humiliation imposed on society by the patriarchy. And so biology must go, since bi means two and everyone knows there is only one gender with 73 pronouns to illuminate the single ge...
Only in the being “you” can we truly belong or defy, and I am so grateful for this space where every poem and poet belongs. Peace, Sarah Respond Susan O Reply to Cara Fortey 2 years ago There are many lines I love here. Your second stanza shows how we have different styles ...
Did Jim Salinger, Gareth Morgan, Rod Oram, Martin Manning, James Renwick, Kevin Trenberth, James Hansen….(think of anyone else you’ve heard prating the AGW mantra) need someone to present an alternative perspective before they were reported in the mainstream media? We strongly believe Lord ...
We will simple continue to fill our time in relentless service to Ishvara. Ultimately, we will reach a stage where our mind is purified of all selfishness, leading to the fourth part of the shloka, complete freedom from sorrow. Shri Krishna ends this shloka with the words “do not grieve...
Spike chose to go to an open mic poetry slam at the McTarnan's bar, where he drank to gather courage and recited the completed version of "My soul is wrapped in harsh repose," the poem he had written before his siring. After he finished reading, Spike received tumultuous applause from...
when I thought poetry was supposed to sound like Frost or Wordsworth, and I knew I could never write a sonnet as musically alive as one of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s sonnets. Maybe because I thought I had to be different than myself, that I had to be someone else to write. I coul...
1920s: Angelus spent some time in Chicago, where he saved a little lap dog from being run over by a car; however, finding himself tempted to feed on the dog's owner, a young woman who tried to seduce Angel, he harshly rejected her.[41] In Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, Angel had a disag...
when I thought poetry was supposed to sound like Frost or Wordsworth, and I knew I could never write a sonnet as musically alive as one of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s sonnets. Maybe because I thought I had to be different than myself, that I had to be someone else to write. I coul...
When we stand at the foot of mountains, it’s difficult to imagine anything greater than the mountains. But this verse explains that all the mountains of the world rest in God’s hands. By declaring that both the mountain peaks, the sea (verse 5) and the depths of the earth belongs ...