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December 2nd, 2024 https://poets.org/text/thirteen-ways-looking-poems-about-birds https://poemanalysis.com/poems-about/birds/ BIRD RELATED QUOTES https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/bird-quotes PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY To a Skylark https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45146/to-a-skylark EMILY DICKINSON “Hope” is the thing with feathers https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42889/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers-314 WALLACE STEVENS Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45236/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-blackbird MAYA ANGELOU Caged Bird https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48989/caged-bird … Continue reading →

We May Call If a mother named song and a father named prayer had a baby we may call that child a poem and they would agree So as Mother Earth and Father Time reconcile the destruction and cultivation  of … Continue reading →

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/the-gaza-we-leave-behind https://www.npr.org/2024/10/15/nx-s1-5153581/gaza-israel-palestinian-poet-mosab-abu-toha https://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/25/mosab_abu_toha_poems https://electricliterature.com/mosab-abu-tohas-poetry-is-a-heart-wrenching-account-of-life-in-gaza-and-here-is-what-he-wants-you-to-know/

WELCOME HOME:  POETRY FROM THE PAGE TO THE STAGE by Poet Jesse James Ziegler  November 3rd, 2024 at Our Center According to Oxford Poetry (noun) : literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and … Continue reading →

Epigraph: “I DON’T PRETEND WE HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS. BUT THE QUESTIONS ARE CERTAINLY WORTH THINKING ABOUT.” — ARTHUR C. CLARKE —-————————— Until Let’s pretend for a moment that significant arts integration  in schools, at early ages  and along the … Continue reading →