Free SF Reader : Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
"Orphan glanced away and was silent. Again, Gilgamesh chuckled. He took another long swig on the bottle and said, "What else is there?" "Moriarty to launch Martian space-probe," Orphan said, "ceremony to take place tomorrow at dusk. The probe will carry an Edison record containing the songs of birds and whales, as well as a small volume of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The Independent reviews the latest book by Juliet Barker Conquest: The English Kingdom of France . The article begins with a reminder of Juliet Barker's previous Brontë work: The books that first brought Juliet Barker renown were moving studies of the Brontës' lives and letters, and an immense life of Wordsworth. Her reinvention as a medievalist with her last book, Agincourt, seemed extraordinary,...
Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
remarking ontologically, "We are created from and with the world/To suffer with and from it day by day." He insists that we are "required to love/All homeless objects that require a world." Of course, everything "requires" a world and the speaker asserts that whether the subject is the physical level or "a dream world," the requirement to love operates as a guiding...
Iris Rain (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Here are some poems that I think are lovely and capture the days we've been having. Enjoy! Grace -Wendell Berry for Gurney Norman, quoting him The woods is shining this morning. Red, gold and green, the leaves lie on the ground, or fall, or hang full of light in the air still. Perfect in its rise and in its fall, it takes the place it has been coming to forever. It has not hastened here, or lagged....
Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
by Michael Blumenthal Things are not as they seem: the innuendo of everything makes from Garrison Keillor: The Writer's Almanac: And the Cantilevered Inference Shall Hold the Day by Michael Blumenthal ~~~~~~~~~~~ Home By Now by Meg Kearney New Hampshire air curls my hair like a child's from Garrison Keillor: The Writer's Almanac: Home By Now by Meg Kearney ~~~~~~~~~~~ My Daughters in New York by James...
Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Dear Poetry Aficionados, Poetry & Poets in Rags blog We're loaded with excellent poetry this week. On our Back Page, the eleventh article of News at Eleven, is a link to Max Ehrmann's famous poem. But leading up to it, we've got a "Beo Dao Portfolio" and an ode to Miss Lou. In Great Regulars, we have the usual seven from Garrison Keillor's column. But be sure to check out the others....
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
The Boston Globe adds its two cents to the Twilight-oriented Wuthering Heights covers story: Can you blame them? Maybe you can, if “Wuthering Heights” is dear to your heart and shameless commercialism turns you off: The British branch of HarperCollins recently published a new edition of the Emily Bronte classic designed to appeal to fans of the “Twilight” saga, the hugely popular...
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