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Today, Langston Hughes
“Motto” (1951) I play it cool And dig all jive That’s the reason I stay alive. My motto, As I live and learn, is: Dig And Be Dug In Return.
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Tagged american poetry, humor, Langson Hughes, literature, poems, poetry
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“The Secret” by Denise Levertov
Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry. I who don’t know the secret wrote the line. They told me (through a third person) they had found it but not what it was not even … Continue reading
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Tagged american poetry, Denise Levertov, literature, poems, poetry
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Ann Patchett’s “State of Wonder”
A couple of years back, I read and loved David Grann’s The Lost City of Z, a true story about a late 19th- and early 20th-century British explorer, Percy Fawcett, who traveled many times to the Amazon to search for a … Continue reading
Today’s Poem, a Love Poem
“Previous Love” by Keith Althaus (from The Sun Magazine, June 2011) Previous love, think of the sky above us still, the parade of clouds here, the starlit evening there, and this one breath expelled that you might catch someday on … Continue reading
The Gory Delights of Influenza and Bubonic Plague
Last year I read “Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague” Geraldine Brooks, which is a story about a Bubonic Plague in the mid-1600s in England. A wonderful plot and gorgeous writing. Last month I read “The Last Town on Earth” by Thomas Mullen, … Continue reading
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