August 2011
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Arthur Rimbaud's Brief Career - The New Yorker →
Daniel Mendelsohn offers his thoughts on the French poet’s tumultuous career.
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kateoplis: “Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, the two... →
kateoplis:
“Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, the two richest men in the United States, each have around $50 billion. […] In fact, there are people who rank far below Gates and Buffet in net worth, who still make several million dollars a day, every day of the year, and have throughout the current recession.
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“It is the imagination that gives us poetry. When you sit down to write a poem,...”
– Philip Levine, poet laureate of the United States
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Midweek Cuddle
I present to you a gem from the inimitable Pablo Neruda. I’ve never felt so much of a stranger’s passion. Catch this and 19 others in his collection, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.
Leaning into the Afternoons
Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad nets
towards your oceanic eyes.
There in the highest blaze my solitude lengthens
and flames,
its arms turning like a...
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Possible hostage situation in Brighton, police...
The suspect has been taken into custody, but this situation was literally two minutes from my apartment - a little too close to home.
theb-line:
A Boston Police Department SWAT team has been called to a possible hostage situation on Ledgemere Road in Brighton, blocks away from BC’s Brighton Campus.
A suspect inside the building at 17 Ledgemere Road has shot at police and one gunshot victim has...
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"I think a really good hip-hop song is a model for... →
Ann Powers and Frannie Kelley go back and forth trying to grasp the year’s most anticipated collaboration, Watch the Throne.
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Dogs in the Courtroom →
Author does a great job of remaining balanced in his report, offering cogent points for both sides of the debate.
Nikki Giovanni, "You Were Gone"
sharingpoetry:
You were gone like a fly lighting on that wall with a spider in the corner You were gone like last week’s paycheck for this week’s bills You were gone like the years between twenty-five and thirty as if somehow You never existed and if it wouldn’t be for the gray hairs I’d never know that You had come.
(submitted by meterandprose)
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Poetry Friday
Worn Philosophy from a Bench at the Public Garden
It was here that I realized money
doesn’t grow on trees,
boughs nearly reaching the ground, casting
shade on a vagrant and his port,
Gaea’s arms providing what his own mother could not.
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HHS Announces Free Birth Control →
Just because something makes you uncomfortable doesn’t mean it isn’t right and necessary for others. Glad to see the HHS making moves.
