Greetings from… “the Nutmeg State?”Like you, reader, I wasn’t sure how Connecticut had acquired this sobriquet. Apparently, it comes from an old legend about Yankee peddlers…

Heavily overcast skies prolong the lingering darkness till well past sunrise, but eventually the duetting screech owls and the all-night migrants softly calling from the woods' edge fall silent, the crows disperse, and the wren, one imagines, must be off busying himself with matters of great import.

A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.

“Utility Clothes- Fashion Restrictions in Wartime Britain, 1943″“A model poses on a Bloomsbury rooftop, one hand in her pocket, the other to her forehead, as she shows off her white and brown…

Murmuration (2023) It Takes Villages Murmuration, black feather-sweeps,ripples of chatter through azure, below bees hum on goldenrod, hover-driftacross blue asters, collect, disseminate– and …

Monday Morning Musings Heron Time Sail the rhythms of remembered ghosts—the girl you werestill there a fish in the body’s oceanswimming toward, through day-breaking dazzle from darkness. Here are t…

YouTube video by Mahmoud Darwish Poetry

Celebrating a new anthology of Connecticut poems, with an upcoming launch event this Thursday, October 8th, at the Guilford Free Library. (Poems from six different poets featured below. Painting by…

Greetings from… “the Nutmeg State?”Like you, reader, I wasn’t sure how Connecticut had acquired this sobriquet. Apparently, it comes from an old legend about Yankee peddlers…

One of my favorite attempts to define poetry is to call it “Words that want to break into song”. What is it that poetry wants to do by striving to sing? I think it wants to include the …

YouTube video by Parlando

YouTube video by StoryVerse Collective

Social media has just made me aware that it is National Poetry Day.

YouTube video by StoryVerse Collective

The play Rossum’s Universal Robots clearly belongs to the 1920s but its satirical take on the meeting of humans and machines is all too relevant today

During the dog days of summer, I went with a friend to visit the bookshop at a local spiritual retreat center.

A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere, including Substack, with a commitment to following a somewhat haphazardly chosen selection of poets, poetry lovers, literary cr…

During the dog days of summer, I went with a friend to visit the bookshop at a local spiritual retreat center.

During the dog days of summer, I went with a friend to visit the bookshop at a local spiritual retreat center. Since we didn’t plan ahead at all, the bookshop ended up being closed when we ar…