Both the pen and keyboard are pretty mighty.
A piece of paper folded the number of times there are players, each player draws on their section, with a slight overlap on fold to give the next player a starting point, pass it on without the next player seeing your contribution, or any others. The surrealists...
Tonight (Thursday, October 27th) EVENT magazine will be hosting an evening of prose and poetry, showcasing the work of four indigenous writers.
I have never been a Bible guy, there was always a Bible in the house, somewhere. I knew the big things, as chosen by modern media, Hollywood epics on Easter weekends. 10 Commandments, Jesus, the Lords Prayer. I guess you could call it the highlight reel but I have...
Kate Tempest. Wow. Powerful Voice https://soundcloud.com/katetempest We went back and found poets of anther generation, for comparison, let's be honest, and hey Ms. Tempest deserves to be here. Fantastic work, I've been listening all morning, enveloped in language......
“Every editor, being assumed to be a criminally disposed person and naturally inclined to blasphemy and sedition, had to enter into sureties. Every person possessing a printing-press or types for printing and every type-founder was ordered to give notice to the Clerk...
BY DANIEL DEFOE 1700 Thus from a mixture of all kinds began, That het’rogeneous thing, an Englishman: In eager rapes, and furious lust begot, Betwixt a painted Britain and a Scot. Whose gend’ring off-spring quickly learn’d to bow, And yoke their heifers to the Roman...
These were my father s new views, and in this radical change of life he had persuaded a few other families to join him. They formed a little colony at Flandreau, on the Big Sioux River. To be sure, his beginnings in civilization had not been attended with all...
After a variety of adventures, we arrived at the canvas city of Jamestown, then the terminal point of the Northern Pacific rail road. I was out watering the ponies when a terrific peal of thunder burst from a spotless blue sky, and indeed seemed to me to be running...
Chapter 13 In Moscow for a week or two on my way home to England in the fall of 1929, I became aware of the shadows of terror which were already closing in on Russia. Nevertheless, back in London I threw myself into the work of the British Communist party, and tried...
In 1941, a 19 year old Spitfire pilot, John Gillespie Magee Jr. wrote High Flight. A few months later he was killed. Take a few moments to remember. High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered...
Two quotes on work to inspire you today.