What do you read when you can’t? This month’s ‘A Ritual to Read to Each Other’ column explores how to begin again.
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When Your Phone Dies: “A Hurricane in My Head” by Matt Abbott
In “A Hurricane in My Head,” Poet Matt Abbott has a suggestion for what to do when your young teen’s phone dies.
Fiction Prompt: Chapter Two, Shakespeare Symphony Project and Slightly Famous French Bread
Fall means fiction! Join author Callie Feyen in chapter 2 of Carter’s story, which combines memorizing Shakespeare with making music.
Poets and Poems: Susan Richardson and “Things My Mother Left Behind”
In “Things My Mother Left Behind,” poet Susan Richardson tells the story of her loss of sight and progression to darkness.
‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Book Club: every listless star
Meg Murry is Every Girl, every listless star. Join us for a three-part book club about Madeleine L’Engle’s classic, ‘A Wrinkle in Time.’
Fiction Prompt: Chapter 1, Apple Fritter Bread
Fall means fiction! Join us as author Callie Feyen unfolds a new story, chapter by chapter. Bonus: an apple fritter recipe.
A Ritual to Read to Each Other: Introducing ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Book Club
Stand with those who fight: Shakespeare, Bach, and Meg Murry. Join our October book club as we read Madeleine L’Engle’s ‘A Wrinkle in Time.’
Remembering and Honoring a Father: Laurence Fuller and “Modern Art”
“Modern Art,” a screenplay by Laurence Fuller, tells the story of his father, British art critic, writer, and author Peter Fuller.
By Heart: ‘To Autumn’ + New Walter de la Mare Challenge
Autumn’s signs may be subtle, but they are there. Join Megan Willome as she learns the end of John Keats’ poem ‘To Autumn’ by heart.
Taking a Scottish Road Trip with Jorge Luis Borges
What was supposed to be an “author-sitting” stint turned into a Scotland road trip for a young grad student and Jorge Luis Borges.
Shakespeare Sonnet CXXIV (124): If my dear love were but the child of state
< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet CXXIV (124) If my dear love were but the child of state, It might for Fortune’s bastard be unfather’d’ As subject to Time’s love or to Time’s hate, Weeds among weeds, or flowers with flowers gather’d. No, it was builded far from accident; It suffers not […]
Shakespeare Sonnet CXI (111): O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide
< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet CXI (111) O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my […]
Pandemic Journal: An Entry on the Expansive Space of Home
In the latest Pandemic Journal entry, writer Michelle Ortega reflects on the ways that being ordered to stay home opened up more space for reflection, creativity and new ideas.
Shakespeare Sonnet XCIII (93): So shall I live, supposing thou art true
< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet XCIII (93) So shall I live, supposing thou art true, Like a deceived husband; so love’s face May still seem love to me, though alter’d new; Thy looks with me, thy heart in other place: For there can live no hatred in thine eye, Therefore in […]
Shakespeare Sonnet LXXVIII (78): So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse
< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet LXXVIII (78) So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse And found such fair assistance in my verse As every alien pen hath got my use And under thee their poesy disperse. Thine eyes that taught the dumb on high to sing And heavy ignorance […]
Shakespeare Sonnet LV (55): Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet LV (55) Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmear’d with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor […]
Shakespeare Sonnet XXVII (27): Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed
< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet XXVII (27) Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed, The dear repose for limbs with travel tir’d; But then begins a journey in my head, To work my mind, when body’s work’s expir’d: For then my thoughts (from far where I abide) Intend a […]
William Shakespeare Sonnet Library
Top 10 Best Shakespeare Sonnets Top 10 Best Shakespeare Sonnets William Shakespeare Sonnet Library: All 154 Sonnets! I. (1) From fairest creatures we desire increase II. (2) When forty winters shall beseige thy brow III. (3) Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest IV. (4) Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend V. […]
Shakespeare Sonnet 1 (I): From fairest creatures we desire increase
< Return to All 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet 1 (I) From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty’s rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed’st thy light’st flame with self-substantial fuel, Making […]
Children’s Book Club: ‘Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story’
9/11 began with a perfect blue sky. Join author Megan Willome as she reads ‘Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story’ for this month’s Children’s Book Club.