I did much better than last year, but then again, I re-read three series. My favorites last year were the Hunger Games trilogy, My Name is Mary Sutter, The Help, and The Agony and the Ecstasy. I still highly highly recommend both the Buckshaw Chronicles (up to book 4 now) by Alan Bradley and the Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Allstyne books (up to book ( Read more... )

I'm posting this poem for two reasons ( Read more... )

We had a raging thunderstorm last night. I found this one at the Poetry Foundation.

( A Son with a Future )

I'm still trying to pretend it's spring, despite the snow we had on Sunday and Monday, and the cold rainy day today. Where's my sunshine? This one is from American Life in Poetry.

( The Garden Buddha )

How have I not posted this poem before? It's from Fuel and it's fantastic.

( The Rider )

I'm currently listening to an audio recording of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, and liking it quite a bit more than I expected. Searching for poems about time travel turned up this one.

( Time Travel )

For inspiration today, I headed over to American Life in Poetry and found this one. I was reminded of one of the more traumatic reading experiences of my youth, when my mother read Farmer Boy (by Laura Ingalls Wilder) to me. The only detail I remember is when Almanzo (or perhaps another young male character) kicked up a yellowjacket nest in a ( Read more... )

Today is my aunt's birthday, so I headed off to The Poetry Foundation to find a related poem. Aunt Helen sounds nothing like my aunt (who has 6 children, 23 grandchildren, and 8 great-grandchildren with three more on the way), but the allure of posting another Eliot poem was irresistible.

( Aunt Helen )

From the Poetry Foundation.

( Truly Pathetic )

This was sent by my poetry buddy. It was published in her latest collection The Book of Men and it's amazing. Evidently Garrison Keillor thinks so, too, because he featured it two times.

( Antilamentation )