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April 14, 2019
How To Lure Your Muse
One thing I love about writing is the days when the words just flow.
Every sentence you pen down comes out near perfect, first time. Every transition to the next paragraph is effortless, and the ideas and inspiration seem limitless. What started as a blank page is now pages upon pages of pure writing gold!
Then there are the days when you get two words into a new scene and can’t for the life of you think of a third word. It’s like you’ve forgotten what words are. That’s any word....
A chess celebration in Puerto Rico
A report by Cristóbal Vega for Chess News.
At the end of March, San Juan, the capital and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, hosted what was depicted as the biggest chess event of the island in the last thirty years. Cuban grandmaster Yuri González (pictured) won the main section, finishing ahead of his compatriot Reynaldo Vera and American veterans Alex Yermolinksy and Alexander Shabalov. CRISTÓBAL VEGA ADORNO wrote a full report, while GM ALE...Surprising Uses for Business Cards – Written By Joan Reeves
Author Joan Reeves provides us with a phenomenal idea on her blog: different, surprising and extraordinary uses for business cards. Thanks so much for this post, Joan!
I still carry business cards. Do you?
Actually, I carry several cards that are standard business-card size, that is, 3.5 inches” x 2 inches.
Only 1 of these cards I carry is a traditional business card. That’s it to the left. On the reverse side of it, I have my website and blog links.
If you’re wonde...
The Sinister White Lie About Black Films
Enlightening post.
Thousands of eBooks Have Disappeared from Amazon.com – Were Your eBooks Hit Too? – by Nate Hoffelder…
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog
on The Digital Reader:
I am about to give a few thousand authors a really terrible morning.
Numerous authors are reporting. both on Facebook and in private discussions, that their ebooks have disappeared from Amazon.com. I have read first hand over a half-dozen reports to this effect, and heard many more reports second hand.
The issue seems to only be affecting Amazon.com, and according to two reports primarily new releases are impacted. The affected list...
A Poem a Day Series 2019 – Day 14
If my lover were a comet
Hung in air,
I would braid my leaping body
In his hair.
Yea, if they buried him ten leagues
Beneath the loam,
My fingers they would learn to dig
And I’d plunge home!
This poem is in the public domain.
April 13, 2019
A Poem a Day Series 2019 – Day 13
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El Beso Angelina Weld Grimké Twilight—and you Quiet—the stars; Snare of the shine of your teeth, Your provocative laughter, The gloom of your hair; Lure of you, eye and lip; Yearning, yearning, Languor, surrender; Your mouth, And madness, madness, Tremulous, breathless, flaming, The space of a sigh; Then awakening—remembrance, Pain, regret—your sobbing; And again, quiet—the stars, Twilight—and you.This poem is in the public domain.
April 12, 2019
Panel Discussion—Puerto Rican Florida: Migration, Integration, and Participation
The University of Michigan’s Latinx Social Science Working Group presents “Puerto Rican Florida: Migration, Integration, and Participation”—a panel discussion with Drs. Jorge Duany (Director of the Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University), Awilda Rodríguez (Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education), Enid M. Rosario-Ramos (Educational Studies), and Mara Cecilia Ostfeld—will take place on Friday, April 19, 2019, from 12:00 to 1:30pm at th...
A Poem a Day Series 2019 – Day 12
Common daisy will have to do . . .
Grotesque Amy Lowell, 1874 – 1925
Why do the lilies goggle their tongues at me
When I pluck them;
And writhe, and twist,
And strangle themselves against my fingers,
So that I can hardly weave the garland
For your hair?
Why do they shriek your name
And spit at me
When I would cluster them?
Must I kill them
To make them lie still,
And send you a wreath of lolling corpses
To turn putrid and soft
On your forehead
While you dance?
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April 11, 2019
A Poem a Day Series 2019 – Day 11
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April 11, National Safe Motherhood Day , India.
Mother Lola Ridge, 1873Your love was like moonlight
turning harsh things to beauty,
so that little wry souls
reflecting each other obliquely
as in cracked mirrors . . .
beheld in your luminous spirit
their own reflection,
transfigured as in a shining stream,
and loved you for what they are not.
You are less an image in my mind
than a luster
I see you in gleams
pale as star-light on a gray wall . . .
evanescent as the reflection...
