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Today's Reading:
"In summer by the sea" by Yehuda Amichai from THE GREAT TRANQUILLITY, published by Sheep Meadow Press (1997). "More Idleness" by Tom Hennen from CRAWLING OUT THE WINDOW, published by Black Hat Press (1997).It's the birthday of poet TESS GALLAGHER in Port Angeles, Washington, 1943. Her collections include Stepping Outside, Portable Kisses, and Instructions to the Double.
It's the birthday in Edmonton, Alberta, 1911, of the writer and critic MARSHALL McLUHAN – who said, "It is the medium that is the message because the medium creates an environment that is indelible and lethal." In the mid-1960s came out with his books Understanding Media, and The Medium is the Massage. He believed that the way we acquire information affects us more than the information itself; since TV involves more of our senses than reading, he believed the printed book to be doomed.
It's the birthday in the Chicago suburb, Oak Park, of ERNEST HEMINGWAY, born in 1899, and author of A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, and dozens of short stories. He ran with the bulls in Spain, hunted big game in Africa, fished for marlin in the Caribbean, was wounded in WWI, came ashore with the troops on D-Day in WWII. He won the Nobel Prize, and at
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Benjamin Zephaniah’s urgent, imperative “To Michael Menson” was written when he was a poet in residence at a human rights barrister in England. His poem resonates with his repeated calls for justice for a murdered Black musician — not a justice that is gullible, impotent, or hopeless but one that is clear-eyed, collaborative, and mighty.Benjamin Zephaniah was born and raised in Birmingham, England. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including City Psalms, Propa Propaganda, and Too Black, Too Strong. In 2000, he was poet in residence for the chambers of human rights barrister Michael Mansfield, where he worked on numerous cases, including the murder of Stephen Lawrence. Zephaniah appeared on the TV show Peaky Blinders and is also known for his poetry books for children.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.We’re pleased to offer Benjamin Zephaniah’s poem and invite you to subscribe to Pádraig’s weekly Poetry Unbound Substack newsletter, read the Poetry Unbound book, or listen to past episodes of the podcast. Order your copy of Kitchen Hymns (new poems from Pádraig) and 44 Poems on Being with Each Other (new essays by Pádraig) wherever you buy books.
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Carmen Giménez’s poem “Ars Poetica” is a stunning waterfall of words, a torre
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