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Mary Oliver was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who made nature and everything around you feel sacred, and she turned solitude ...
I came to the conclusion last week that there are too many words and not enough poetry. I am bombarded by a constant stream of information, opinion and data: I am constantly recalibrating my ...
He used to tell people to pay whatever they felt moved to give, but often wouldn’t receive enough ... “people will try to not give me words but say, ‘Just look at me and get a vibe.” Ben Bernthal’s ...
In July, when Brennan and Antrobus met to record the album of his spoken word poems, they recorded enough to fill up two ... and kind of just sit in this – not quite silence, but a kind of ...
It cannot, and does not, aim to make the argument of the entire poem—if a poem makes an argument at all. But in a few carefully considered words, poems can create enough electricity to spark ...
and dignity were not enough to stop the evil, ravenous and hellbent on stamping out life. People whose loved ones were ripped from them here wrote on the walls, words doomed to fail in conveying ...
When words aren’t enough, music speaks ... Personal stories become a basis for poetry that become song lyrics. David St. Romain, founder and executive director of Songs of Survivors, has ...