Taliesin on Mead
The Book of Taliesin is a late Middle Welsh version of the ales of Gwion Bach and Taliesin, mostly around the court of Maelgyn Gynedd. It was written in the 1550s, the same [..]
Category: Poetry
Hump Day Haiku
Every now and then, serious academic study trips over sheer delight. Thus it was I found the Beer Haiku website: a daily haiku submitted by readers. As near as I [..]
Gillian Clarke poem “Home”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/22/john-lewis-poem-gillian-clarke This poem is part of a window display at the Cardiff branch of department store John Lewis. In the midst of our color-blazing, air-chilling autumn, when I am planning [..]
Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools
The year is 1910. The southeastern U.S. is still recovering from the Civil war, which devastated the region though it ended years before. Edwin Mims and my great-grandfather Bruce Payne [..]