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  The Poetry of Edna St Vincent...

  Edna St Vincent Millay

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  Elinor Morton Hoyt was born on 7th September, 1885 in Somerville, New Jersey and from age 12 grew up in Washington D C where her father served as assistant attorney general and later solicitor general.  Her early education together with her renowned beauty suggests she was being trained for life as a debutante but her life quickly found another route as she became absorbed in the world of books. 
   
  An early marriage following her graduation ended when, after being pursued by Horace Wylie, 17 years her senior and a married Washington lawyer with three children, she eloped to England with him.  His wife would not divorce him and the subsequent scandal was widely publicised further fueled by the suicide in 1912 of her abandoned husband. 
   
  With Wylie's encouragement she published in 1912, ‘Incidental Number’, assembled from poems of the previous decade. 
   
  Despite a child from her first marriage Elinor subsequently endured miscarriages, a stillbirth and a premature child who lived for only one week.  When Wylie’s deserted wife agreed to a divorce, the couple returned to the United States and married but they were already drawing apart. 
   
  In 1921, Elinor’s ‘Nets to Catch the Wind’, was published. It was an immediate success and a prize-winner.  In New York’s literary circles she found her next husband who acted as her agent – the poer William Rose Benét, brother of the famed Stephen. They married in 1923 and that same year ‘Black Armor’, was published. The New York Times said "There is not a misplaced word or cadence in it."  She also published her first of four novels, ‘Jennifer Lom’, to excellent reviews. 
   
  She worked for a time as the poetry editor of Vanity Fair, an editor of Literary Guild, and a contributing editor of The New Republic.  Her third book of poetry, ‘Trivial Breath’ arrived in 1928 as did the failure of her marriage with Benét.  
   
  She moved again to England and fell in love with a friend’s husband, to whom she wrote, and later published a series of 19 sonnets; ‘Angels and Earthly Creatures’. 
   
  Elinor Wylie suffered high blood pressure all her adult life and this eventually led to her death at Benet’s New York apartment on 16th December, 1928 where she suffered a stroke. She was 43. 
   
  1 - The Poetry of Edna St Vincent Millay - An Introduction 
  2 - The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  3 - Dirge Without Music by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  4 - Renascence by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  5 - If Still Your Orchards Bear by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  6 - My Heart Being Hungry by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  7 - First Fig by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  8 - Feast by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  9 - Second Fig by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  10 - No Rose That in a Garden Ever Grew by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  11 - Three Songs of Shattering by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  12 - Rosemary by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  13 - I Too Beneath Your Moon by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  14 - Sonnet XLIII - What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  15 - Sorrow by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  16 - Departure by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  17 - Travel by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  18 - Journey by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  19 - Mist in the Valley by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  20 - Tavern by Edna St Vinent Millay 
  21 - Exiled by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  22 - A Visit to the Asylum by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  23 - Recuerdo by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  24 - The Philosopher by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  25 - Sonnet XXX -  Love is Not All by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  26 - Sonnet XVIII - I, Being Born a Woman by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  27 - The Betrothal by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  28 - When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Fa

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  The Tent Generations -...

  Fadwa Tuqan, Salem Jubran,...

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  From the Introduction by Mohammed Sawaie:
  The Palestinian poets included in The Tent Generations, Palestinian Poems represent different age groups and backgrounds, yet they all express a strong sense of "Palestinian-ness". They include Israeli citizens, the offspring of those who remained in Palestine after 1948. They also include poets who lived or continue to live in the West Bank and Gaza, areas that are still occupied, or controlled by Israelis as of this writing. Finally, they include poets born in Palestine, but whose families were expelled, or migrated to neighboring Arab countries as a result of the Arab-Israeli wars of the Nakba in 1948, and then of 1967 and 1973.
  The educational backgrounds of the poets represented here vary. Salem Jubran, Samih al-Qasim, Tawfiq Zayyad, and Marwan Makhoul, for example, were products of the Israeli educational system. Others attended institutions of learning in various Arab countries. Fadwa Tuqan received little formal education in her city of Nablus; she, however, acquired instruction in language, support in writing poetry, and encouragement to publish her poems from her brother, the well-known poet Ibrahim Tuqan, mentioned previously.
  All these poems are written in fusha Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, the codified literary, written language shared by educated speakers of Arabic in their various respective regions. Palestinian folkloric poetry, referred to as al-Shi'r al-Sha'bi or Shi'r al-'Ammiyya, is not included in this work. Folk poetry, richly expressed orally in the Palestinian dialect, 'Ammiyya, embraces a variety of themes (national pride, panegyric, love, generosity toward guests/strangers, and so on), including the political themes expressed in the poems in this work. There is a rising interest in collecting and preserving this folkloric poetry, and several anthologies of oral poetry as well as studies have recently appeared.
  The 1948 Nakba, the wars of 1967 and 1973, and their subsequent tragic impact find expression in the work of Palestinian poets. Some of the authors in this collection had firsthand experience of the loss of home, and the up-rootedness from and destruction of their villages and cities. Others acquired knowledge of such experiences, the tragedy that befell Palestinians, through stories told by grandparents or parents, stories of hardship and deprivation transmitted from one generation to another. Thus, poets express in vocabulary specific to the Palestinian experience of the dispossession of homeland, the forced expulsion, the pain of living in the miserable conditions of refugee camps in the diaspora.

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  Mahogany Eve

  Alan Payne

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  An exotic and ambitious collection in which deceptively simple structures are built to carry an impressive weight of interest and reference. – Andrew Motion
  The guardian spirit of this book is a mahogany sculpture called Eve, part of the permanent collection in the Graves Art Gallery in Sheffield. She's looking over her shoulder. Her gaze takes in journeys across the Atlantic, beaches in the Caribbean, a boarding school in Yorkshire, departures and arrivals, home- comings, a grandmother buried in Port of Spain, two brothers on the Orinoco, Hindu gods and goddesses, runaways, castaways, slaves, a cartographer who never leaves his room, mothers and sons, fathers and sons, and a goat pulling a bishop on a sledge…
  Alan Payne's poems are rooted in the Caribbean, evoking a sense of separation and loss, and touch on the contradictions and betrayals of colonialism.
  Shortlisted for the 2025 Derek Walcott Prize

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  Annabel Lee

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Annabel Lee is the last complete poem by Edgar Allan Poe. Like many of Poe's poems, it explores the theme of the death of a beautiful woman. 
  The narrator, who fell in love with Annabel Lee when they were young, has a love for her so strong that even angels are jealous. He retains his love for her even after her death. 
  There has been debate over who - if anyone - was the inspiration for Annabel Lee. Though many women have been suggested, Poe's wife Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe is one of the more credible candidates. 
  ©2009 Listen & Live Audio, Inc.; (P)2009 Listen & Live Audio, Inc.

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  Rhyme A Dozen A - Exploring the...

  Robert Louis Stevenson, W B...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
   
  01 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Exploring the World - An Introduction 
  02 - Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  03 - In the Bazaars of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu 
  04 - To the City of Bombay by Rudyard Kipling 
  05 - In Amsterdam by Eugene Field 
  06 - To the Nile by John Keats 
  07 - The Isles of Greece by Lord Byron 
  08 - Away to Canada by Joshua McCarter Simpson 
  09 - Sailing to Byzantium by W B Yeats 
  10 - The Golden Journey to Samarkand by James Elroy Flecker 
  11 - Sonnet on Approaching Italy by Oscar Wilde 
  12 - Constantinople by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 
  13 - El Dorado by Edgar Allan Poe

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  Little America The Terrance...

  Joseph Johnson

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  Welcome to Little America Avon Park, a small town located within Highlands County, FL. Where violence, hustling and scheming are an everyday occurrence and there is a very thin line between loyalty, envy and jealousy. Terrance Young is a self-made entrepreneur, who has been involved in the street life since he was a jit. For the past nine months he has been devising a plan to transition into the corporate world. He has the perfect strategy to exit the game while setting his crew and their families up for life. As he attempts to bring his plan into fruition, all hell breaks loose, bodies are dropping left and right, assumptions are being made, loyalty and trust have been broken, and plots to take down his crew are in motion, leaving everyone he loves in jeopardy.    

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