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Category Archives: Poetry
The Duck and the Rabbit: Danielle Blau and the Marriage of Philosophy and Poetry
Danielle Blau is an American poet, essayist, and critic whose work joins analytic philosophy to lyric poetry. She writes about consciousness, language, identity, grief, and the texture of ordinary life, and she belongs to a small group of contemporary writers … Continue reading
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The One Who Sees
What are the most valuable revelations that the gifted ones see that most of us miss? They see incentives, not speeches. They notice what people are rewarded for and punished for, then predict behavior from that. This explains outcomes far … Continue reading
The Best Lack All Conviction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Coming_(poem) https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/04/07/no-slouch/ https://www.npr.org/2020/11/28/939561949/opinion-reading-william-butler-yeats-100-years-later Happy 100th anniversary to the poem that every writer needs to know 00:00 Nick Fuentes goes off on Ann Coulter 14:00 CNBC shouting match over lockdowns 15:00 Should health be your #1 priority? 24:00 PUBLISHER YOUTUBE FULLY … Continue reading
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Yisroel Pensack: Berkeley Mohel Battling Oral Cancer Wrote Rosh Hashanah Poem
This poem by the seriously ill mohel and Torah teacher Rabbi Chanan Feld was read to his Beit Midrash Ohr HaChaim congregation in Berkeley by his wife Jody on Rosh Hashanah: Rosh HaShanah words from Rabbi Chanan Feld [HaRav Chanan … Continue reading
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Loss Of Parent At Early Age Key For Developing The Compulsion To Write
I’m enjoying Catherine M. Andronik’s book for teens, Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets (The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous). She writes: "Like so many of his fellow poets, the key event in the early life of John Keats … Continue reading
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Conversations With Poets
At a party in Hollywood Wednesday night, I had the opportunity to converse with two published poets. Tahlia: "I’m 21. I’m not looking for love right now." "I’m taking Film Studies. I want to be a writer. I’ve always wanted … Continue reading
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Poetry For Teens
Nick Tolkien emails: "Heya Luke, Im starting a poetry movement for teenagers as I am one myself in California (i live in London right now its shit). I think teenagers really seem to be out of options in the age … Continue reading