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Several months ago, before the presidential election, San Francisco poet and author Dean Rader found himself engaged in a philosophical debate with some of his fellow poets: If Donald Trump were to win the presidency, and if he asked one of them to compose a poem to be read at the inauguration, would they do it? On the one hand, none of them supported Trump for the presidency. Rader didn't know many politically conservative poets, in general, and his friends found the prospect of Trump's election to be "terrifying" and offensive.
When death, as public as a President or as private as a lover, overwhelms us, it speaks itself in elegy's necropoetics. Kenyon and I almost avoided marriage because her widowhood would have been so long, between us was there such a radical difference in age.
So far, so good. Boris Johnson, the face of the "Out" side in last month's Brexit referendum and now Britain's new Foreign Secretary, got through his first encounter with the 27 other foreign ministers of European Union countries on Monday without insulting anybody.
Lifting our eyes to the light and progress of the day, chasing the shadows of violence from the coast of the night. Let's bury the past to its cave, let the glory of the future rise in the atmosphere of the present Ogunniyi Abayomi was born July 11, 1991 in the city of Lagos, where he resides.
The sound of the wind Accompanied by a hummingbird chime and The chirp and duets of songbirds Creates an inspiring symphony That invites reflection on life and the day Paul Cech has been writing poetry since 1970. Several of his poems have been published as Saturday Poems in the Pittsburgh- Post Gazette and the Thomas Merton Center of Pittsburgh has published several of his poems in NewPeople.
Woody Guthrie, the legendary wandering minstrel of folk, seems to be having a moment. A new book from Sasquatch documents his time in the Pacific Northwest when he wrote so many classic songs.
On June 1, 1916, Louis Brandeis took his seat as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the first Jewish American to serve on the nation's highest bench. In 1813, the mortally wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, Capt.