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Poem: "Let Evening Come" by Jane Kenyon

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2009 11:11 PM | Add Comment

A fantastic poem from Julie Hill Alger: "Lesson 1"

Posted by kluciole at 7/31/2009 3:05 PM | Add Comment

2 articles: "Wednesday's solar eclipse pits superstition against science" and "China gears up for longest solar eclipse of the century (6 minutes and 39 seconds of darkness)"

Posted by kluciole at 7/20/2009 11:27 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Anne Sexton, "Admonitions To A Special Person"

Posted by kluciole at 7/19/2009 1:29 AM | Add Comment

Photo: evening view of the 1,000-year-old Potala Palace - the world's highest - in Lhasa, Tibet

Posted by kluciole at 7/17/2009 11:00 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Willa Cather's "The Hawthorn Tree"

Posted by kluciole at 7/17/2009 10:50 PM | Add Comment

Frank McCourt (author of Angele'a Ashes) is gravely ill with meningitis, brother says

Posted by kluciole at 7/16/2009 1:33 PM | Add Comment

Wadsworth Church built on faith, freedom, poetry

Posted by kluciole at 7/11/2009 12:27 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Article on previously featured and much loved poet Mary Oliver: "The Land and Words of Mary Oliver, the Bard of Provincetown"

Posted by kluciole at 7/8/2009 1:42 AM | Add Comment

Two poems by New England poet Amy Lowell (1874-1925): "The Giver of Stars" and "At Night"

Posted by kluciole at 7/2/2009 3:26 AM | Add Comment

Another poem from previously featured poet Nizar Qabbani: "Love Compared"

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2009 2:46 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Louise Glück, "The Wild Iris"

Posted by kluciole at 6/26/2009 3:01 AM | Add Comment

I have just received the new chap from Rose of Sharon Press (publisher S.A. Griffin): "Let Everybody Come In" by Scott Wannberg. I love it very much!

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2009 7:22 PM | Add Comment

Photos: hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims trek through treacherous mountains in revolt-torn Kashmir each year to reach the holy cave of Lord Shiva in Amarnath

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2009 10:16 PM | Add Comment

Another poem from previously featured poet Delmira Agustini: "El Nudo" ("The Knot")

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2009 2:43 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Louise Bogan, "The Crossed Apple"

Posted by kluciole at 6/14/2009 6:40 AM | Add Comment

New poem from Luciole Press friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "fire down below"

Posted by kluciole at 6/9/2009 7:45 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

"America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam" -- Obama

Posted by kluciole at 6/5/2009 2:15 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Excellent new poem from Scott Wannberg: "the best man steps out for the evening"

Posted by kluciole at 6/4/2009 6:10 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Bliss Carman, "Earth Voices"

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2009 7:19 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Scott Wannberg, "the heart is a mad country"

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2009 4:13 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Delmira Agustini, "I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown"

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2009 11:19 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Poem: Anne Sexton, "The Starry Night"

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2009 1:42 AM | Add Comment

Another poem by Margaret Atwood: "Night Poem"

Posted by kluciole at 5/25/2009 5:22 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Margaret Atwood, "Siren Song" (plus the painting "The Siren" by John William Waterhouse )

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2009 5:38 AM | Add Comment

Legend of English vampire laid to rest in Peruvian village: the history of Sarah Roberts, and how some have come to see her as a saint (or boost for tourism)

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2009 5:21 AM | Add Comment

Photo: art installation "Rack with Madonnas" by German artist Fritsch in the new Brandhorst modern art museum in Munich

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2009 10:21 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Poem: "Song Of Proserpine" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, plus the mythology and art of Persephone (the Greek equivalent of Proserpine... I vigorously studied and loved the Greek myths as a child)

Posted by kluciole at 5/12/2009 10:48 PM | Add Comment

My cat's second favorite poem by Pablo Neruda: "Cat's Dream"

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2009 4:08 PM | Add Comment

Quote from Henry Miller

Posted by kluciole at 5/10/2009 10:55 AM | Add Comment

More on one of my favorite poets, previously featured Rosalía de Castro: book excerpt about her work, another bio, and poem "Margarita" (Spanish version and best English translation I can find)

Posted by kluciole at 5/9/2009 9:08 AM | Add Comment

Another poem by Gabriela Mistral, "The Rose"

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2009 2:13 AM | Add Comment

Photos: South Korean dancers perform a traditional dance - "Palilmu" - during a memorial service called Jongmyo Jerye

Posted by kluciole at 5/4/2009 9:58 PM | Add Comment

Gabriela Mistral: first Chilean and first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; here is a bio and two of her poems -- "I am Not Alone" and "The Stranger"

Posted by kluciole at 5/4/2009 12:46 PM | Add Comment

Videos: Brendan Perry's "Utopia", using rich imagery from the movie "The Fountain" (whose trailer appears below)

Posted by kluciole at 5/3/2009 11:17 PM | Add Comment

Video: Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Sheherazade"

Posted by kluciole at 5/2/2009 11:04 AM | Add Comment

New work from poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy's favourite women poets (here are Alice Oswald, Ruth Padel, and Jo Shapcott)

Posted by kluciole at 5/2/2009 3:18 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Juan Ramón Jiménez, "I Am Not I"

Posted by kluciole at 5/1/2009 2:14 AM | Add Comment

Poem by previously featured poet Nizar Qabbani: "When I love"

Posted by kluciole at 4/26/2009 7:29 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Hafiz, "The Days Of Spring"

Posted by kluciole at 4/25/2009 12:02 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Wallace Stevens, "The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain"

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2009 12:08 AM | Add Comment

From Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales"..... "Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote"

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2009 7:48 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a view of a mosque in Cairo during sunset April 14

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2009 7:17 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "A Glass of Wine" by Andrew Motion

Posted by kluciole at 4/16/2009 8:13 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Kalidasa, "Look to this Day"

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2009 11:59 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Tibetan Buddhist monks are seen through prayer flags at Bodhnath Buddhist Stupa, in Kathmandu, Nepal

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2009 5:23 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "Fern Hill" by Dylan Thomas

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2009 5:16 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a Japanese man holds a giant firework as an offering to the Gods during a ceremony in Matsudaira village

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2009 5:01 PM | Add Comment

Egypt discovers dozens of well-preserved mummies in 4,000-year-old necropolis in Fayoum

Posted by kluciole at 4/13/2009 10:30 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Excerpt from "Lullaby of the Onion" by Miguel Hernández

Posted by kluciole at 4/13/2009 12:35 PM | Add Comment

Quote from Mircea Eliade, and photo of Antelope Canyon in Arizona

Posted by kluciole at 4/12/2009 2:41 PM | Add Comment

From Luciole Press Contributor/friend Melanie Dorsey, some of her photos

Posted by kluciole at 4/11/2009 7:05 PM | Add Comment

Poem: St. Francis of Asissi, "The Tree of Love"

Posted by kluciole at 4/11/2009 6:54 PM | Add Comment

Rumi: excerpt from "If A Tree Could Wander"

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2009 10:42 PM | Add Comment

Poem: William Blake, "Earth's Answer"

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2009 10:45 AM | Add Comment

Painting: William Blake's "Christ Appearing to the Apostles after the Resurrection"

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2009 10:37 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "Between Going And Coming" by Octavio Paz

Posted by kluciole at 4/9/2009 9:31 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Video: "Love Theme" from "The Dark Crystal" (with scenes from the film)

Posted by kluciole at 4/8/2009 10:39 PM | Add Comment

Another poem from Luciole Press Contributor/friend Scott Wannberg: "storyteller purgatory"

Posted by kluciole at 4/8/2009 10:28 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Christian nuns during the Palm Sunday procession from the Mount of Olives to Jerusalem's Old City

Posted by kluciole at 4/6/2009 11:40 AM | Add Comment

The 61st Annual Conference on World Affairs will be this coming week, at the University of Colorado at Boulder

Posted by kluciole at 4/5/2009 7:59 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the cairn-circle of Moel ty Uchaf in Gwynedd, North Wales

Posted by kluciole at 4/4/2009 7:51 PM | Add Comment

Poem by Naomi Ayala

Posted by kluciole at 4/2/2009 9:24 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a South Korean worker attaches name cards on lanterns to celebrate the upcoming birthday of Buddha on May 2 at the Chogye Temple in Seoul

Posted by kluciole at 3/31/2009 11:34 PM | Add Comment

Another poem sent in by Luciole Press Contributor/friend Scott Wannberg: "jehovah, get thee to the witness box"

Posted by kluciole at 3/26/2009 9:36 PM | Add Comment

(Travel) -- Ruins of Ephesus: From goddess Nike to St. Paul

Posted by kluciole at 3/25/2009 10:53 PM | Add Comment

Video: Ralph Vaughan Williams, "Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis"

Posted by kluciole at 3/24/2009 9:36 PM | Add Comment

Video: "Villdans" by Martine Lund Hoel

Posted by kluciole at 3/23/2009 7:00 PM | Add Comment

South Africa bars Dalai Lama from peace conference, saying it does not want to endanger the government's relationship with China. He would be welcome again in the future — but "not now, when the whole world is looking at South Africa"

Posted by kluciole at 3/23/2009 6:15 AM | Add Comment

Photos: the Fallas festival, welcoming Spring and honoring St. Joseph's Day in Valencia; a stairway to the roof of the Imam Al Shafi'i Mosque in Cairo's City of the Dead; and candles at Apostolos Andreas monastery in northern Cyprus

Posted by kluciole at 3/20/2009 11:34 PM | Add Comment

Archaeologists uncover stunning Mayan carvings of cosmic monsters (described in the Popol Vuh), hidden in the jungle for 2,000 years

Posted by kluciole at 3/13/2009 10:14 PM | Add Comment

Videos: The Secret of NIMH, by Don Bluth

Posted by kluciole at 3/11/2009 12:48 AM | Add Comment

Video: "Seneca" by Bardo State, with scenes from Eric Valli's film "Himalaya"

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2009 11:22 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "Prayer" by Henry David Thoreau

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2009 8:24 AM | Add Comment

The poetry of Velimir Khlebnikov

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2009 8:13 AM | Add Comment

Poem: excerpt from "Days I enjoy" by Victoria Sackville-West

Posted by kluciole at 3/4/2009 4:09 AM | Add Comment

Leave God a message at his Dutch answering service

Posted by kluciole at 3/3/2009 3:30 AM | Add Comment

Quote from Tristan Tzara

Posted by kluciole at 3/1/2009 7:06 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Page from the Book of Kells

Posted by kluciole at 3/1/2009 12:00 AM | Add Comment

Poems (and Bio): Sugawara Takesue no Musume

Posted by kluciole at 2/27/2009 1:27 AM | Add Comment

More from Gary Bachlund; continuing from the blog entry below about Rosalía de Castro. Bachlund mentions his work on Antonio Machado's "En El Entierro de Un Amigo"

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2009 12:29 AM | Add Comment

Sent in by Luciole's lovely Diana Bonebrake: Shakespeare's Sonnet # 139

Posted by kluciole at 2/25/2009 11:32 PM | Add Comment

I would love to see Samarkand: "In 2001, UNESCO inscribed the 2750-year-old city on the World Heritage List as 'Samarkand - Crossroads of Culture'"

Posted by kluciole at 2/23/2009 11:47 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Erica Jong, "Nursing You"

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2009 12:31 AM | Add Comment

Rev. Damien de Veuster, a 19th-century Belgian priest who ministered to leprosy patients in Hawaii and died of the disease, will be canonized as a saint this year

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2009 6:30 PM | Add Comment

Two poems from N. Scott Momaday: "The Earth" and "The Delight Song of Tsoai-Talee"

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2009 1:22 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo of the Orion nebula.... Poem: "Stars" by Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2009 3:27 AM | Add Comment

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah shakes up religious establishment, dismissing the chief of the religious police and a cleric who condoned killing the owners of TV networks that broadcast "immoral" content

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2009 3:13 PM | Add Comment

13 Facts About Friday the 13th

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2009 2:43 PM | Add Comment

Archaeologists search for unmarked mass graves containing hundreds of unbaptized babies buried by the Catholic Church on the edge of a Belfast cemetery; families demand right to bury children in family plots

Posted by kluciole at 2/12/2009 3:44 AM | Add Comment

The face of an Ancient Egyptian priestess revealed after 3,000 years: Meresamun was a "Singer in the Interior of the Temple of Amun" in Thebes around 800 BCE

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2009 8:43 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: the recently discovered galaxy "Segue 1" orbits the Milky Way, and is believed to be composed of mainly dark matter

Posted by kluciole at 2/7/2009 2:23 AM | Add Comment

2 Afghans face death over translation of Quran

Posted by kluciole at 2/6/2009 6:14 AM | Add Comment

"Ancient" Syriac bible found in Cyprus

Posted by kluciole at 2/6/2009 6:11 AM | Add Comment

Photo: St Peter Basilica is seen over Sant'Angelo bridge on the Tiber river

Posted by kluciole at 2/4/2009 9:22 AM | Add Comment

Vatican: Holocaust denier Bishop Richard Williamson must recant. Pope Benedict says he feels "full and indisputable solidarity" with Jews, and warns against any denial of the full horror of the Nazi genocide

Posted by kluciole at 2/4/2009 9:13 AM | Add Comment

Video/Song: Mary Fahl's "Ben Aindi Habibi," with Arabic and English translations. It is a kharja (lyric poem) written in the 11th or 12th century, often romantic in nature and similar to ghazals (which I have posted about before)

Posted by kluciole at 2/1/2009 9:45 AM | Add Comment

Russian Orthodox Church enthrones new leader; Patriarch Kirill is the first leader of the world's largest Orthodox church to take office after the fall of the Soviet Union

Posted by kluciole at 2/1/2009 3:33 AM | Add Comment

Evolution war still rages 200 years after Darwin's birth

Posted by kluciole at 1/26/2009 5:30 PM | Add Comment

Photos: the spectacular solar eclipse that took place today in Southeast Asia (photos from Indonesia, Singapore, Manila, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Kuala Lumpur)

Posted by kluciole at 1/26/2009 4:58 PM | Add Comment
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