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This CD Just Happens To Be Pure Poetry

April 21, 2010 – 5:29 pm

Music is something I profess to know nothing about, but I couldn’t let April, which is National Poetry Month, slip by without mentioning this wonderful new CD by Natalie Merchant.  Leave Your Sleep, Merchant’s first album since 2003,  is ‘literally’ poems set to music.  The CD’s official website reads I chose works by both well-known [...]

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April Is National Poetry Month

April 6, 2010 – 11:48 am

It’s National Poetry month people.  So get out there and celebrate.  Not sure how?  Poets.org lists 30 ways that you can slip poetry into your daily activities.  I’ve posted before about the heart healthy benefits of reading poetry.  Other studies suggest that reading poetry can boost the immune system and also reduce the  severity of [...]

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Some Of My Favorite “Heart” Books

February 14, 2008 – 2:26 pm

This Valentines Day, I think I have something for every taste. Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Strong bond of friendship between two women.) The Heart Aroused by David Whyte (Poetry in the work place? You bet.) A Match To The Heart by Gretel Ehrlich (One woman’s journey of being struck by lightning.) [...]

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