An ape who has done much to help others. Thank you Chris (and Sally for interviewing the banana chomper). Kevin
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Day Is Done…
This poem speaks for itself. Kevin
As I do,
Every night
At this time,
When the sun
Disappears
From the sky,
I went out
To the porch
To take in
The flag.
I had learned
As a Boy Scout
That the flag
Should never
Be left
All alone
In the dark.
Tonight,
However,
A thought
Came to me
As I collected
Old Glory.
Here it was,
A long,
Holiday weekend,
And once again,
I was
All
By
Myself.
No one
Would be coming
To make sure
I wasn’t left
All alone
On the porch
In the dark.
I feel
As if
My heart
Has been flying
At half mast
For
Far
Too
Long.
Day is done,
Gone the sun
As well as
The love
That once
Warmed my heart.
As always,
I will hang out
The flag
Again tomorrow.
I will
Also allow
My lonely heart
To long
For the love
It so
Desperately
Misses.
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“Alone” – Give Me the Monsters – by Patrick W. Marsh
Patrick paints a bleak picture. Kevin
10 Great Facts about Writers and Dogs
A great post for all you dog lovers out there including myself. I particularly like, “The first draft of John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men was eaten by his dog, Max.” Hopefully the invention of computers and other storage devices precludes this from happening today …! Kevin
Short facts about writers and their pet dogs – and the canine figures in the works of famous authors
Fearing attacks from rivals, poet Alexander Pope rarely left his house without a brace of pistols and his dog, a Great Dane named Bounce.
Virginia Woolf’s first published essay was an obituary for the family dog, Shag.
The first draft of John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Menwas eaten by his dog, Max.
Emily Brontë’s dog, Keeper, followed her coffin to the grave when she died and, for weeks after, howled outside her bedroom door waiting for its owner to return.
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Name a Blind Poet
An interesting short piece regarding blind poets and how their blindness impacts their poetry. Being blind I find that much of my work describes senses other than sight – smell, touch and man’s emotions. Kevin
I am intrigued by how poets are influenced by their visual sense. This is reflected in their verse, as well as the use of accompanying photographs and other visual artwork. And many of you practice both Taiga and Haiga poetry.
This leads me to wonder about the poetry of blind poets. First, which poets were/are blind? Besides Homer and John Milton, I was at loss to name any others, so I started a small research project.
Please help me build a list of blind poets.
Here are those I have identified thus far: the ancient Greek poet Homer, 17th century English poet John Milton, 15th century Hindi poet Sant Surdas, contemporary Australian poet Michelle Taylor, 9th century Persian poet Rudaki (alledgedly blind), 18th century Irish poet Anthony Raftery, 9th century Arab-Spanish poet Muqaddam Ibn Mu afa al-Qabri, 19th century American hymn writer and poet Fanny Crosby, 19th century Jewish-American poet…
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Why Librarians Don’t Want to Buy Your Self-Published Book
An informative post for authors wishing to get their books into libraries. Kevin
When a self-published author contacts someone in the collection development department at my library, we let out a collective groan. Inevitably, our answer to the request to add their book to our collection will feel personal, which is awkward. It will definitely mean more work for us no matter what, and for acquisitions and cataloging staff as well if we do accept the book as a donation or decide to purchase it.
Librarians don’t want to buy your self-published book, but not for the reasons you think.
I’ve been thinking about self-published books and their place in libraries a lot recently, as my library has been updating our collection development policy and brainstorming ways to streamline how we deal with requests from authors to include their self-published materials in our collection and how our collection development work complements our strategic goal of supporting content creation in our community.
Then, this weekend…
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The Best Sourced Dorothy Parker Quotes
10 of the best quotes from Dorothy Parker and where they first appeared
Dorothy Parker was born on this day in 1893, so in honour of this we’ve compiled a list of ten of the wittiest and wisest quotations from the Dorothy Parker oeuvre, as well as some of her pithiest and most memorable one-liners. Many quotations have been attributed to Parker, but here we’ve confined ourselves to the things that she definitely did say.
There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words. – Interview in Paris Review, 1956
I’m never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don’t do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don’t even do that any more. – ‘The Little Hours’…
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