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National Poetry Month

National Poetry Month is coming up quickly! With the sun peeking out, snow melting, and everything in flux, there is … More

Allan Wolf, Elizabeth Acevedo, Emily Dickinson, Naomi Shihab Nye, National Poetry Month, Poetry, poetry month, teen, Young Adult

Meet Armand Garnet Ruffo : Highlight of Poetry Month

The origin of the name April for the month we are currently experiencing comes from the Latin Aprills which means … More

April, Archie Belaney, Armand Garnet Ruffo, book signing, filmmaker, Grey Owl, Indigenous, Indigenous Knowledge Centres, Indigenous poet, narrative poems, National Poetry Month, poet, Poetry, Random Acts of Poetry, reading, scholar, Treaty#, writer

Shakespeare for the Queen’s 90th Birthday

In honour of Her Majesty’s 90th birthday, the Prince of Wales chose a selection from Shakespeare to commemorate the occasion. … More

classic, Henry VIII, HRH Queen Elizabeth, literary, National Poetry Month, Poetry, poetry month, Prince Charles, William Shakespeare

A Sonnet Upon Sonnets by Robert Burns

Fourteen, a sonneteer thy praises sings; What magic myst’ries in that number lie! Your hen hath fourteen eggs beneath her … More

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Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration … More

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The Mystery of William Shakespeare?

Beginning in the middle of the 19th century, questions on whether Shakespeare was actually the author of the works thought … More

Christopher Marlowe, Edward de Vere, Francis Bacon, National Poetry Month, poetry month, William Shakespeare, William Stanley

Sonnet 18 as read by Tom Hiddleston

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the … More

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Shakespeare in Popular Music, part One

“Mediocre writers borrow. Great writers steal.“ T.S.Eliot Sometimes,it’s not really stealing, its is simply paying homage to great words and … More

Cemetery Gates, classic, Links, literary, Music, National Poetry Month, Poetry, poetry month, Richard III, The Smiths, William Shakespeare

On Shakespeare by John Milton 1608-1674

What needs my Shakespeare for his honour’d Bones, The labour of an age in pilèd Stones, Or that his hallow’d … More

Anne Tyler, Atwood, classic, John Milton, literary, National Poetry Month, Nesbo, Poetry, poetry month, re-imaginings, Shakespeare, Winterson

Sonnet Twenty -Nine By William Shakespeare, adapted by Rufus Wainwright

Sonnet 29 When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf … More

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