A different kind of first day experience as told to us by Texas writer Mariah Boone, whose poem Eclipse you’ve read here! Read more by Mariah at her blog, Lone Star Ma. This poem expresses not the first-time mother’s shock at the looming separation from her infant, but the seasoned mother’s sense of the surreal. […]
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New Kid
Back-to-school poetry by Virginia’s own Jean M. Hendrickson! Each of Jean’s poems tells its own story in its own voice (Community and Death,), and this is no exception. Here we read about starting at a new school when it’s not a new experience. This is for all the kids starting at a new school for […]
Happy Labor Day!
It’s Labor Day. You know what that means. Yep. Walt Whitman! This is one of his best known poems and it calls to mind the importance of loving the work that we do. If I had to work at any of the jobs Walt writes about, the song I would sing would be a profane […]
The Unsolved Murder of John Colman
It hasn’t been a peaceful sleep for John Colman. His was the first recorded–and as yet, unsolved!–murder in what would one day become metropolitan New York City. On September 6, 1609, our man Colman came to a violent end, the details of which were sketchily reported by a seedy crew mate. Seems our boy Colman […]
Sense the Moment
Anna Fuentes Alpine lives in Bergenfield, NJ, where she is sending her children back to school with a mixture of happiness and anxiety. In her professional life, Anna’s use of language has tended to the legal, spiritual, and social, and in her personal life, she can frequently be heard using her fluent and flawless Spanish […]
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