Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Sunday, August 2, 2020

Sunday Sentence: Homie by Danez Smith

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Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary.        someone dragged the ...
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Sunday, June 14, 2020

Sunday Sentence: Blood Ties & Brown Liquor by Sean Hill

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Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary.        A flock of starlings...
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Sunday, June 7, 2020

Sunday Sentence: Blood Ties & Brown Liquor by Sean Hill

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Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary.        Lord, I wish I knew ...
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Sunday, May 3, 2020

Sunday Sentence: Nebraska by Kwame Dawes

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Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary.        It grows dark quick...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

Here’s to Blithesome May (and e. e. cummings)

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It’s the last day of National Poetry Month and I’ve been celebrating with poetry old ( nineteenth-century poets ) and new ( Kwame Dawes ...
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Sunday, April 26, 2020

Sunday Sentence: Nebraska by Kwame Dawes

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Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary. In truth, I have been repr...
Sunday, April 19, 2020

Sunday Sentence: Nebraska by Kwame Dawes

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Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary.        This is a ritual of...
Sunday, February 2, 2020

Sunday Sentence: The War Makes Everyone Lonely by Graham Barnhart

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Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary. There was gunfire, and it ...
Sunday, January 26, 2020

Sunday Sentence: Essays After Eighty by Donald Hall

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Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary. Poems are image-bursts fro...
Sunday, January 19, 2020

Sunday Sentence: The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon

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Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary.        God does not leave ...
Friday, January 3, 2020

My Year of Reading: Every Book I Read in 2019

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111. Three slashes, like a prisoner scratching the number of days in his prison cell; in my case, however, I was liberated by the on...
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Wednesday, January 1, 2020

My Year of Reading: Best Books of 2019

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In the final year of this decade, I read my ass off. It’s true; I model a new pair of jeans for my wife (who is also named Jean, go figure)...
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Sunday, December 22, 2019

Sunday Sentence: The Complete Poems of e. e. cummings

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Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary. Note: This week, I’m bending ...
Friday, December 6, 2019

Friday Freebie: Big Holiday Giveaway

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Congratulations to Carl Scott , winner of last week’s Friday Freebie contest: The Current by Tim Johnston. This week, I’ve donned a S...