"Poem of the Week: The Idler by Alice Dunbar Nelson"
"Her debut publication, a miscellany of poems and stories, Violets and Other Tales, appeared when she was only 20. 'The Idler' comes from that collection. The sympathetic portrait reveals the young writer’s independence of class- or faith-bound moral judgments—and a bold though unobtrusive use of metrical variation to express character and action."
via THE GUARDIAN |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Martha Collins on Psalm 19
"One night when I was nine years old, when the stars and moon were shining brightly, my mother took me to the window and read the first verses of the 19th Psalm to me. That was a long time ago, so the version I heard was the King James, which is still....the translation I like to read. I was, as we would say now, blown away. I had heard and loved music all my short life, but I had never heard anything as beautiful as that Psalm." |
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