Tag: Calliope
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5 Poems for Cinco de Mayo
Depictions of the battle showing Mexican cavalry overwhelming the French troops below the fort at Loreto. Scene recreated by Francisco P. Miranda. Oil on canvas, 1872.//credit: Francisco P. Miranda May 5, otherwise known as “Cinco de Mayo” is not Mexican Independence Day – that’s September 16. It is an important date for Mexican Independence, though,…
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Melissa Sullivan – “Fade”
Poet and artist Melissa Sullivan reflects on the impermanence of all things in this short, moving springtime poem. Fade All blooms decayPersephone speaks from her Stygian palaceBright blooms are briefDelicate and easily bruisedWe gather our flowers in MayBut we must accept that they too shall fade About Meliss Sullivan Melissa Sullivan is a hedge-wandering art…
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Melissa Sullivan on “Preludes for Memnon I” by Conrad Aiken
“Here are the bickerings of the inconsequential,The chatterings of the ridiculous, the iterationsOf the meaningless.” How does one write about their favorite poem? That’s the question that has been running through my mind for the past few weeks. I was asked to write something about my favorite poem, “Preludes for Memnon I” by Conrad Aiken,…