Poem for September 11th
I’ve seen some worthy candidates as my friends remember the day, but I think this Whitman poem really is the one to express all the feelings I cannot say (hat tip to a Facebook friend). It’s unusual...
View ArticleMOOCs, ModPo and Me (Part Two)
Last weekend, I wrote my first essay for the course, a close reading of an Emily Dickinson poem I hadn’t read before. The suggested length was 500 words, but I finished mine somewhere around 775 words...
View ArticleBookish Bucket List
Inspired by a post at one of my new favorite bookish blogs, the dirigible plum, and part of The Broke and the Bookish blog hop, here’s my bookish bucket list! Visit more famous bookstores and libraries...
View ArticleQuicksand Years
Quicksand years that whirl me I know not whither, Your schemes, politics, fail–lines give way–substances mock and elude me; Only the theme I sing, the great and strong-possess’d Soul, eludes not;...
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