Sherman Yellen: Obama, Emily Dickinson, Hope and Me
It's a short poem but well worth reading past its first catch-phrase line. I haven't done so since college and that was when Emily Dickinson may well have been alive. Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in …
Heard By a Bird from Phoenicia, New York
… Emily Dickinson, but I never really understood her poems until I practiced crystal reading. Suddenly I read poem number 361, and felt my whole upper torso tingling. Sparrow: Which one is poem number 361? Horge: Here …
A wing and a prayer
Birds have always been endowed with symbolic portent – from Chekhov to Hitchcock to Twitter. We ignore their decline at our peril. There are glimmers of hope, but only if we act now urges Margaret Atwood How to …
Q&A: Joyce Carol Oates
… Bird Of Heaven. When were you happiest? On two dates: 23 January 1961 and 13 March 2009 (my two weddings). What is your greatest fear? What we all fear – the loss of meaning and significance in our lives. What is …
A wing and a prayer
Birds have always been endowed with symbolic portent – from Chekhov to Hitchcock to Twitter. We ignore their decline at our peril. There are glimmers of hope, but only if we act now urges Margaret Atwood How to …
Margaret Atwood: act now to save our birds
Birds have always been endowed with symbolic portent – from Chekhov to Hitchcock to Twitter. We ignore their decline at our peril. There are glimmers of hope, but only if we act now urges Margaret Atwood How to …
'Project Runway' And Poetry
… bird. Many poets, like many designers, love technical challenges; some poets have organized books (Robyn Schiff's baroque "Worth," Angie Estes's nimble "Chez Nous") around haute couture. No wonder, then, that "Project …
Water, water, everywhere
… Emily Dickinson and Baudelaire. Oh, sorry - the porn star connection? She goes by the cyber-name of "Cytherea", a nickname for Aphrodite, one of whose birthplaces was the isle of Cythera. The effect of all this is …
John Lundberg: Basking In The Election Afterglow
… every day since), and things that didn't seem possible just a week ago now suddenly seem possible. As Obama said in his victory speech: "The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in …
“Hopefully” Brian?
… Emily Dickinson said: Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune–without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could …
