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With Thanksgiving Day coming up, in this blog post Iโm going to present her poem โThanksgivingโ, found in the 1903 edition of Poems of Power. It cautions against taking things for granted and urges readers to appreciate the simple joys of life.
There's about a dozen poets that I've always felt a special affinity to. Some well-known names are among them, such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Walt Whitman and Robert Frost, but there are also those whose works seem to have fallen out of favour with the reading public and who are no longer household names. One …
I first learned about the Greek poet Napoleon Lapathiotis (ฮฮฑฯฮฟฮปฮญฮฟฮฝฯฮฑฯ ฮฮฑฯฮฑฮธฮนฯฯฮทฯ) from the 1985 film "Meteor and Shadow" (ฮฮตฯฮญฯฯฮฟ ฮบฮฑฮน ฮฃฮบฮนฮฌ), starring the wonderful Greek actor Takis Moshos (ฮคฮฌฮบฮทฯ ฮฯฯฯฮฟฯ). The biopic, which was based on authentic documents and excerpts from Lapathiotis' writings, made me want to find out more about this controversial poet. A …
Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the master of cosmic horror, left a remarkable literary legacy that consists of numerous short stories, essays, and tens of thousands of letters. In spite of the incredible popularity his works have gained in the decades after his death, one segment of his writing that still remains a bit neglected are his …
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