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Today would have been Toni Morrison’s 89th birthday, and if you can’t make it to one of the many celebrations going on in her honor around the country, you should at least indulge in reading her words—and also, perhaps, in listening to some of her wisdom. Luckily for those wishing for more of the latter,…
via Watch a rare recording of one of Toni Morrison’s earliest interviews about Beloved. — Literary Hub
Reblogged from The Story Reading Ape: I am grateful to Chris Graham for the opportunity to write about my experience of compiling and publishing my “Selected Poems”. Firstly, one might ask, why produce a ‘Selected Poems’? In the case of myself, I have published 6 collections of poetry: “Dalliance: A Collection of Poetry and Prose”, […]
via Why produce a ‘Selected Poems’ – Guest post by Kevin Morris at TRSA — Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo
Demonstrators protest the awarding of the 2019 Nobel literature prize to Peter Handke in Stockholm, in December 2019. Stina Stjernkvist/TT News Agency via AP Ervin Malakaj, University of British Columbia Austrian writer Peter Handke received the 2019 Nobel Prize in literature. The award is for “a writer’s life work,” and Handke has written novels, travelogues, […]
Happy Valentine’s Day! It is the day of love so I thought I would talk about a few book relationships I enjoy. Of course these aren’t all of them. Also, some of these are not traditional love stories, but I enjoy them anyway. Synopsis: Long before she was the terror of Wonderland—the infamous Queen of […]
You don’t need to have detailed knowledge about William Wordsworth to know about his close association with the Lake District in north west England. He and his sister Dorothy were born there but left when their mother died and their father sent them to different parts of the country. William to be educated in Lancashire,…
via Authors At Home: William Wordsworth And Dove Cottage — BookerTalk
1: To get started, write one true sentence. Hemingway had a simple trick for overcoming writer’s block. In a memorable passage in A Moveable Feast, he writes: Sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the […]
via Five Tips From Hemingway I Incorporate Whenever I Write A Story — Short Story Scribe
– Kim Sa-in (Boeun, Chungcheong del Norte, 1955) es un destacado poeta, crítico literario y profesor de escritura creativa de Corea del Sur. Estudió literatura coreana en la Universidad Nacional de Seúl. A principios de la década de 1980, por su oposición a la dictadura militar, estuvo varios años preso. Entonces comenzó a escribir poesía […]
via Un viejo pozo y otros poemas | Kim Sa-in — Buenos Aires Poetry
Yellow flowers teasing Blossoms shining in the sun Tonight they shiver Returning cold weather chills Springtime buds will wait awhile Photos: Dwight L. Roth Frank Tassone’s Haiku challenge this week talks about the return of cold weather after our nice warm spell that touched us last week. Join us at: https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/117675961/posts/19654
La búsqueda de la sencillez de aquel mundo, ya irremediablemente ido, posee un vocabulario especialmente interesante, por ejemplo en los «filandones», que eran reuniones invernales y nocturnas en las que las mujeres hilaban y los hombres hacían trabajos manuales, y donde se contaban historias; las «sebes», que son cercados de estacas altas entretejidas con ramas […]
via Antonio Manilla: El lugar en mí | por Juan Carlos Abril — Buenos Aires Poetry
Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves. Five centuries later, a pair of red shoes seal […]
via Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore — Witty and Sarcastic Bookclub
Writing: Task or Multi-Task? “To task or multi-task? That is the question.” In the lonely world of creative writing, be it in poetry or in prose, is it better to continue with one text until the task of writing it is thoroughly finished? Or should we flit from text to text, developing several at once […]
Bookshelf Roundup is a feature I do every weekend which fills the role of several blog memes, like Stacking the Shelves where I talk about the new books I’ve added to my library or received for review, as well as It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? where I summarize what I’ve finished reading in the last week and what […]
via Bookshelf Roundup 02/15/20: Stacking the Shelves & Recent Reads — The BiblioSanctum
Sappho, fr. 16 Some say a force of horsemen, some say infantry and others say a fleet of ships is the loveliest thing on the dark earth, but I say it is the one you love It is altogether simple to make this understood since she whose beauty outmatched all, Helen, left her husband a […]
via “The One You Love”: The Best Love Poem Ever — SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
El Ciudadano Muchos rumores hay sobre la cuarta temporada de una de las series más exitosas de Netflix, y este nuevo avance confirma uno de ellos Aunque falta mucho tiempo para ver la cuarta entrega de capítulos de Stranger Things —aun no hay fecha oficial de estreno— este viernes Netflix nos regaló un adelanto o…
via (Video) Nuevo adelanto de «Stranger Things 4» nos revela lo que todos sospechábamos — El Ciudadano
First impressions matter. Why? Because they tend to last. They are notoriously difficult to change if done wrong, and your blog is not exception. There are several “first impressions” your blog makes:
Phil Slattery, Writer, Publisher 