In the first installment of our Reindeer Chronicles, we explore the amazing regeneration of China’s Loess Plateau after centuries of degradation.
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Poets and Poems: James Matthew Wilson and “The Strangeness of the Good”
“The Strangeness of the Good” by James Matthew Wilson celebrates the things in life that endure and that we share in our common humanity.
Fiction Prompt: Chapter 6, The Hank Aaron Party
Our fiction prompt series continues with a party filled with romance and heartache. Join author Callie Feyen for chapter 5 of her YA story.
Fiction Prompt: Chapter 5, Hank Aaron, Sugar Cookies, and Romance
Our fiction prompt series continues with sugar cookies honoring Hank Aaron, sort of. Join author Callie Feyen for chapter 5 of her YA story.
By Heart ‘As I Walked Out One Evening’ + New Lucille Clifton Challenge
The river that is our country runs on, despite crooked hearts. Read W.H. Auden’s “As I Walked Out One Evening” beside your favorite river.
Poets and Poems: Laura Reece Hogan and “Litany of Flights”
“Litany of Flights” by Laura Reece Hogan leaves us with a sense of wonder, the same wonder we feel when we see mountains for the first time.
“Among the Gods” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Among the Gods How close the air of valleys, and how close The teeming little life that harbors there! For me, I will climb mountains. Up and up, Higher and higher, till I pant for breath In that thin clearness. Still? There is no sound Nor memory of […]
“The Ship” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems The Ship The sunlight is mine! And the sea! And the four wild winds that blow! The winds of heaven that whistle free— They are but slaves to carry me Wherever I choose to go! Fire for a power inside! Air for a pathway free! I traverse the […]
“Waste” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Waste Doth any man consider what we waste Here in God’s garden? While the sea is full, The sunlight smiles, and all the blessed earth Offers her wealth to our intelligence. We waste our food, enough for half the world, In helpless luxury among the rich, In helpless […]
“Our Loneliness” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Our Loneliness There is no deeper grief than loneliness. Our sharpest anguish at the death of friends Is loneliness. Our agony of heart When love has gone from us is loneliness. The crying of a little child at night In the big dark is crowding loneliness. Slow death […]
Generosity with Self: When You’re In The Wrong Story
Callie Feyen reflects on Henry VI and encourages Winchester to be generous enough with himself to leave when he’s in the wrong story.
The Generativity of Wild Things: On Rethinking Our Relationship With Money
Have you ever thought—really thought—about how money works? The wild things have something to teach us. And it starts with sugar.
Children’s Book Club: ‘Katy and the Big Snow’
Read “Katie and the Big Snow” by Virginia Lee Burton, a story of a snow plow named Katie that makes life a little easier during a crisis.
Great Gatsby Fashion: Jay Gatsby Goes to Goodwill
Learn a little about Great Gatsby fashion, then get creative and put your learning into a poem. Read a Gatsby poem by Tania Runyan first, to get started!
“Finding” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Finding Out of great darkness and wide wastes of silence, Long loneliness, and slow untasted years, Came a slow filling of the empty places, A slow, sweet lighting of forgotten faces, A smiling under tears. A light of dawn that filled the brooding heaven, A warmth that kindled […]
“A Man Must Live” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems A Man Must Live A man must live. We justify Low shift and trick to treason high, A little vote for a little gold To a whole senate bought and sold, By that self-evident reply. But is it so? Pray tell me why Life at such cost you […]
A New Year’s Reminder by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Photo by Special Collections Toronto Public Library on flickr. Public domain. A New Year’s Reminder Better have a tender conscience for the record of your house, And your own share in the work which they have done, Though your private conscience aches With your personal mistakes, And you […]
“Step Faster, Please” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Step Faster, Please Of all most aggravating things, If you are hot in haste, Is to have a man in front of you With half a day to waste. There is this one thing that justifies The man in the foremost place: The fact that he is the […]
“Part of the Battle” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Part of the Battle There is a moment when with splendid joy, With flashing blade and roar of thundering guns And colors waving wide where triumph stands, The last redoubt is carried; we have won! This is the battle! We have conquered now! But the long hours of […]
“Fire With Fire” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Fire With Fire There are creeping flames in the near-by grass; There are leaping flames afar; And the wind’s black breath Is hot with death,— The worst of the deaths that are! And north is fire and south is fire, And east and west the same; The sunlight […]