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National Poetry Month

In honor of National Poetry month and the people who die in our country’s many wars, here’s one of my favorite poems, from the book MORE POEMS, by A.E. Houseman: XXXVI Here dead lie we because we did not choose To live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is [...]

Posted 02 April 2011 † nickyp § Just fun ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Brain in poetry

Check out The White Museum, by George Bilgere. I was tipped to it by a friend who reads The Writer’s Almanac on American Public Media’s site. Last week I stayed on the outside of someone’s white museum, and just that was wonderous strange.

Posted 23 March 2009 † nickyp § Brain science § Reading ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,