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Literature for Kossacks: E. E. Cummings
Greetings, literature-loving Kossacks! Last time we discussed gay Harlem Renaissance author Richard Bruce Nugent, who tapped into the experimental cadences of black modernist literature to spin...
View ArticleCry Like An Angel
Meteor Blades' magnificent front-page diary establishes the fact that the highest officials in our government deliberately directed that human beings be made to suffer torture.I came to his piece from...
View Articleee cummings whr r u
why yell as in i could give a shit anymore cause ive seen it all this effing election man you know first hill then bill mccain a joke then hell u no o is here and thas all that matters...
View Articlee. e. cummings responds to kos
silence .is a looking bird:the turn ing;edge,of life (inquiry before snow
View ArticleBowe Bergdahl & e.e. cummings
I am not a frequent diary writer but today I was thinking about all the stories about Bowe Bergdahl and how it reminded me of a great poem by e.e. cummings.Cummings wrote this poem because of his...
View ArticlePaul Harper Dillon my teacher, mentor and friend
Paul Harper Dillon my teacher, mentor and friend for the past 20 years passed away last week in the mountains Peru.He was a graduate of Cornell Univ. Dr of Social Anthropology and worked his entire in...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: February 22
RenewalAlthough much of the U S is still in the grip of winter, we are less than a month from the official beginning of Spring. As remembrance mentioned in yesterday's KTK, we here in coastal...
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CLASSIC POETRY: "pity this busy monster, manunkind," by E.E. Cummings
pity this busy monster, manunkind,..London, 2014. Source: Wikipedia.not. Progress is a comfortable disease:your victim (death and life safely beyond)..plays with the bigness of his littleness..Source:...
View ArticlePacifist Sentiment on Independence Day
These are cynical times, with a cynical President, and a cynical electorate. This makes it impossible me to want to raise the flag and salute the red, white, and blue. As a pacifist myself, I am loathe...
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KitchenTable Kibitzing February 11, 2018
”No one could have predicted.”That nearly everyone would have multiple tattoos.That every product would have nearly unbreakable seals.That living past 100 would become routine.That gluten would be...
View ArticleMonday OT: October 14 is World Standards Day (International)
September 30 is day 287 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Boomtime, Bureaucracy 68, 3185 YOLD (discordian), And let us not forget 13.0.6.16.8 by the Mayan Long CountOn this day in history:-On October 14...
View ArticleNaPoWriMo, Day 21: Stop making sense
Welcome back to NaPoWriMo, everyone! It’s Day 21.NaPoWriMo: April is National Poetry Writing Month!So, yesterday I asked you to do a little homework, where you wrote down a few snippets of last night’s...
View ArticleNaPoWriMo, Day 27: No broken prose
I took several classes in fiction writing when I was in college (more fiction than poetry, funnily enough, even though with fiction I’m middling at best). One of the things that I learned there is that...
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