The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry : The Poetry Foundation [poem] : Find Poems and Poets. Discover Poetry. When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things" from The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry. Buy or borrow this book: Source: Collected Poems 1957-1982 (Counterpoint Press, 1985) Biography Critics and scholars have acknowledged Wendell Berry as a master of many literary genres, but whether he is writing poetry, fiction, or essays, his message is essentially the same: humans must learn to live in harmony with the natural rhythms of the earth or perish. Continue reading this biography
World Digital Library Home My Boring Ass Life Interesting Facts | From the most weird to inevitably true facts in a few words. Hedwig Gorski Hedwig Gorski (born July 18, 1949) is an American performance poet and an avant-garde artist who labels her aesthetic as "American futurism." She is a first-generation Polish American academic scholar and writer. Biography[edit] Her father joined the Polish Underground at age fourteen, and later the United States Army, arriving with his family in the U.S. in 1949 on the General Sturgis, which docked in New Orleans, Louisiana.[1] Her father did electrical work in Napoleonville before moving to New Jersey. After receiving a Bachelors of Fine Arts in painting from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in Canada, she moved with her first husband to Austin, Texas in 1977.[3] She is married to her second husband, composer D'Jalma Garnier. Career[edit] The conceptual process ... seems impossible to pull off. Performance poet[edit] Populist writer[edit] She produced and funded projects to distribute works of performance-oriented literature outside the "mainstream". Scholar[edit]
History of the 'at' symbol @ commercial at Home Bidding Information FYI email History of @ What do you call the @ symbol used in e-mail addresses? From: Cool Quiz.com That little "a" with a circle curling around it that is found in email addresses is most commonly referred to as the "at" symbol. Surprisingly though, there is no official, universal name for this sign. For instance, some quirky names for the @ symbol include: apenstaartje - Dutch for "monkey's tail" snabel - Danish for "elephant's trunk" kissanhnta - Finnish for "cat's tail" klammeraffe - German for "hanging monkey" papaki - Greek for "little duck" kukac - Hungarian for "worm" dalphaengi - Korean for "snail" grisehale - Norwegian for "pig's tail" sobachka - Russian for "little dog" More on the symbology Before it became the standard symbol for electronic mail, the @ symbol was used to represent the cost or weight of something. With the introduction of e-mail came the popularity of the @ symbol. The actual origin of the @ symbol remains an enigma.
Thesaurus.com | Find Synonyms and Antonyms of Words at Thesaurus.com Poetry slam A poetry slam is a competition at which poets read or recite original work. These performances are then judged on a numeric scale by previously selected members of the audience. History[edit] Slams have spread all over the world, with slam scenes in Hawaii, Ireland, Nepal, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Portugal, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Serbia, Bosnia, Denmark, Latvia, South Korea, Japan, India, Greece, Spain, Mexico, France, Madagascar and Azerbaijan . Format[edit] In a poetry slam, members of the audience are chosen by an M.C. or host to act as judges for the event. Before the competition begins, the host will often bring up a "sacrificial" poet, whom the judges will score in order to calibrate their judging. A single round at a standard slam consists of performances by all eligible poets. Competition types[edit] Poetics[edit] Slam critics[edit] Academia and slam[edit]
Welcome to Llewellyn Worldwide - New Age Publisher in Tarot, Wicca and Witchcraft, Magick, Shamanism, Astrology and Lo Scarabeo products the free encyclopedia Kurt Vonnegut explains drama I was at a Kurt Vonnegut talk in New York a few years ago. Talking about writing, life, and everything. He explained why people have such a need for drama in their life. He said, “People have been hearing fantastic stories since time began. The problem is, they think life is supposed to be like the stories. He drew an empty grid on the board, like this: Time moves from left to right. He said, “Let's look at a very common story arc. It starts with her awful life with evil stepsisters, scrubbing the fireplace. “People LOVE that story! He wiped the board clean and said, “Now let's look at another popular story arc: the disaster.” It's an ordinary day in an ordinary town. But the problem is, life is really like this... Our lives drifts along with normal things happening. “But because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs! That's why people invent fights.
I’ve stood around too long’ Central Kings students wear pink to send bullies a messageBy IAN FAIRCLOUGH Central Kings Rural High School students David Shepherd and Travis Price CAMBRIDGE — Two students at Central Kings Rural High School fought back against bullying recently, unleashing a sea of pink after a new student was harassed and threatened when he showed up wearing a pink shirt. The Grade 9 student arrived for the first day of school last Wednesday and was set upon by a group of six to 10 older students who mocked him, called him a homosexual for wearing pink and threatened to beat him up. The next day, Grade 12 students David Shepherd and Travis Price decided something had to be done about bullying. "It’s my last year. They used the Internet to encourage people to wear pink and bought 75 pink tank tops for male students to wear. "I made sure there was a shirt for him," David said. They also brought a pink basketball to school as well as pink material for headbands and arm bands.
OMG ... another Kindle killer Just when you thought there couldn't be one more Kindle killer, Barnes & Noble comes out with a brand new digital book reader called "the nook." The device is very similar to the Kindle in size and price ($259) but it includes a full-color touchscreen! It also has a nifty browser function that lets you pan through full-color book cover icons to select your book, similar to the touchscreen panning feature of the iPhone. The device is 3G, so according to the Barnes & Noble website you can download over a million titles in seconds rather than minutes, and B & N is letting users flip through any book for free prior to purchasing it. This "bookstore in a box" functionality is paired with a new technology called E ink which lets the user zoom in at random and maintain a crisp resolution on the text.
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