Category: Education
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Reflections on Ode to the Good Black Boots that Served My Soul So Well (poem) by Aberjhani
“But why exactly were these shoes so important to Vincent? Why had he carried them with him for so long, beaten and worn as they were?” – Ken Wilber, from the essay A Pair of Worn Shoes (“A Pair of Shoes” painting by Vincent Van Gogh from Southern Review.org) The story…
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Let’s Fix It: 7 Steps to Help Replace Legislated Fear with Informed Compassion | Aberjhani Author-Poet-Literary-Consultant | LinkedIn
Protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, hold large banner containing the many names of individuals known to have been killed in confrontations with police. (Photo: Reuters) More than half the states in America (currently 33) have laws which allow one individual to take the life of another and get away with it…
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Song of the Black Skylark: Poem in the American Literary Halloween Tradition
(Black Skylark title art graphic by Postered Poetics for Aberjhani) Does the enigmatic figure of the Black Skylark referenced in this blog title have anything to do with Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” (1845), with Walt Whitman’s “The Mystic Trumpeter”…
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Patrick Modiano Edges out Thiong’o and Murakami to Win 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature
(photograph of Patrick Modiano by Reuters and El Pais) Though presented by the UK-bookmaker Ladbrokes with an odds of only 10 to 1 to win the 2014 Nobel Prize in…