Posts Tagged ‘ death ’
Alpine meadow in Franzensfeste, South Tyrol, in May of 2020.
Source: Monday Photos | 3 Quarks Daily
Art by Jim Salvati.
Joyelle McSweeney’s double volume is a prophetic testament of grief.
Source: We Cannot Be Created for This Sort of Suffering… | Poetry Foundation
Eavan Boland was given the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Irish Book Awards in 2017
Irish poet Eavan Boland has died at the age of 75.
Source: Poet Eavan Boland dies aged 75
Sean Bonney, Our Death (image courtesy Commune Editions)
While despondency and madness appear aplenty in Sean Bonney’s writing, its keynote is pure, hard rage.
Source: Poetry as a Blowtorch of Protest
PBS NewsHour co-founder Jim Lehrer, a giant in journalism known for his tenacity and dedication to simply delivering the news, died Thursday at the age of 85.
Throwing Away the Alarm Clock
my father always said, “early to bed and
early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy
and wise.”
it was lights out at 8 p.m. in our house
and we were up at dawn to the smell of
coffee, frying bacon and scrambled
eggs.
my father followed this general routine
for a lifetime and died young, broke,
and, I think, not too
wise.
taking note, I rejected his advice and it
became, for me, late to bed and late
to rise.
now, I’m not saying that I’ve conquered
the world but I’ve avoided
numberless early traffic jams, bypassed some
common pitfalls
and have met some strange, wonderful
people
one of who
was
myself-someone my father
never
knew.
– Charles Bukowski
Source: Rough Ideas: June 2016 Archives
Nelba Márquez-Greene remembers her daughter Ana, who was killed by gun violence at Sandy Hook Elementary
Source: Nelba Márquez-Greene 7th Anniversary Sandy Hook | PEOPLE.com