writing often reads simply but communicates complex ideas. It has precision and power. In most cases, this comes from painstaking reworking. I’m a big fan of reading aloud. Once I have a complete draft of a post, I always read the whole thing out. It’s amazing what your ear catches...
November 11, 2024 By Ann Morgan in Events, Post-world, Reading the World (book) Tags: books, Dublin Book Festival, Ireland, literature, translation, travel, writing 6 Comments Last weekend, I had the privilege of being part of the line-up at Dublin Book Festival, an annual celebration ...
it was not something I was given. It was something I discovered on my own one day—a lump of gold concealed in my innermost depths, a bird trilling in a tree, sunlight playing on water. There was no going back; from the moment I discovered it, everything changed: my humble...
Yet its members saw it as a marker of authentic Irishness in comparison to the “green beer, ‘Paddywhackery’ of once-a-year, St Patrick’s Day Irish Americans.” None of this is new. In the 1860s Fenian John O’Leary criticised the former Young Irelander and later New York judge R...
It occurs a few months later when I read the poem back aloud and I am moved. At this vantage I am able to engage with the poem the way the reader would, as I am detached from my writing self. The poem almost occurs as a new thing. Not all the poems that I write survive this ...
December 7, 1941: A Day Which Will Live in Infamy Redux ’24 Posted onDecember 4, 2024 Reply It’s time to Break It Down! In 2011, in observance of the 70th Anniversary of the Pearl Harbor bombing by Japan, I wrote the following post. The now 83rd Anniversary, which we will commemo...
I thought I was going to be reading aloud. No, I was performing. And by the time I would get home every day at around 5:00, I was out by 6:00, I was done. And it was that process that just made me see how easy it is to underestimate the art forms that you don’t...
“I am the world crier, & this is my dangerous career… I am the one to call your bluff, & this is my climate.” —Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972)
Published 1 day ago on December 8, 2024 By Geoffrey Grider SHARE NOW THE END BEGINS: XFacebookRedditEmailPinterestPrint分享 From the drones and UFOs that are plaguing New Jersey to the collapse of Syria in the Middle East, end times activity is off...
“I am the world crier, & this is my dangerous career… I am the one to call your bluff, & this is my climate.” —Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972)