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Poetry Challenge #277-The Prophet

Today, we celebrate Khalil Gibran (1883-1931). You know the author of that dog-eared bent spined paperback entitled The Prophet? The one so oft quoted at weddings? Who hasn’t read, owned, or at least seen copy? Apparently no one ANYWHERE! Poetry Foundatio...

What Inspires Me? Reading Free

I just celebrated my 4th Anniversary as a Little Free Library Steward. It began selfishly. As a way for me to cull my overflowing book collection. Frankly, in those first several months, I was my best library customer.

Then CoVid shutdown came, and with i...

Poetry Challenge #276-Just So Kipling

Rudyard Kipling wrote many books you might recognize: The Jungle Book, Just-So Stories, Captains Courageous.

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Fin Pal asks Norman Fishy Christmas Jokes!

Happy Holidays! We have presents for you! Below are 5 of Norman’s Finniest Christmas Jokes. Can you guess the answers?Some of them are real sinkers so get ready. . . ...

Poetry Challenge #275-Unfettered and Alive

I want to be free! Free to be! Born Free! or, if you live in New Hampshire, Live Free or Die! And thanks to Gustave Kahn, we can write free…verse!

Gustave Kahn (born Dec. 21, 1859, Metz, France—died Sept. 5, 1936, Paris), was a French poet and literary th...

Fin Pal Tori asks Norman "How About Pets?"

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Poetry Challenge #274-Carolyn Rogers, Gave this World

Today we celebrate poet Carolyn Marie Rodgers was born in 1940 in Chicago. Rogers, who died from cancer in April 2010, often performed her poetry in coffeehouses—dramatic, passionate readings (I’ve included a video below so you can see and hear her yourse...

Wyatt asks Norman "How's About a New Story?"

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Poetry Challenge #273-Akiko Yosano

There are days when I do not want to write a poem—because I don’t want to do the thinking that goes into choosing a topic or form or emotion or or or…Those days Haiku is our default. Haiku is one of the first poetry forms students learn because it’s short...

Fin Pal asks Norman "Do you sleep at night?"

Xujan-Mei’s underwat...