Daily Wisdom’s Own Island Poet Michelle Hugelmann: An Interview 1, Michelle, can you tell us where you are from and a little about your current life, work and any special relationships? My name is michelle helene hugelmann(amblavaney). 44 years old. And married, children I live in Seychelles .Seychelles is an archipelago of 115 islands. i…
Ralph Waldo Emerson: America’s Most Influential Essayist Emerson may have been an ordained minister and the son of an ordained minister, but he was anything but a Christian. He was the, in fact, the man credited with being the primary leader of the American transcendentalist movement and the father of it. Actually though, transcendentalism was…
Abuh Monday and His Wise Reflections on His Life and Works Nigeria is one place like any other place that possesses the ability of making and destroying a man and his passion especially when it is ridden with certain culture that doesn’t allow certain profession. Life in Nigeria is what many would call ‘not too…
Francis Scott Key: On The Fence in Freedom’s Defense Some poets are famous for only one poem, and Francis Scott Key, a Fredrick, Maryland lawyer is the amateur poet who was famous for writing the immortal words of America’s national anthem; The Star Spangled Banner. He had boarded an English warship during the War of…
Mary Oliver and Her Wise Connection to the Natural World Mary Oliver was such a natural born poet that she started writing by the young age of 14, eventually winning the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 2007. And the New York Times said of her “that she was by far this country’s…
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sweet Lady Poet of the Love Sonnet Elizabeth Browning was the proverbial child prodigy who began writing at the early age of 11, and her lifetime body of work boasted of the largest collections of childhood poetry in existence. Then after being accepted as an adult into some of Britain’s most prestigious…
Modern Sonnet Although the forms of the classical 14 line Petrarchan and English sonnets were written in stone, time marches on and with that onward march comes change. The post modern movement brought with it poetic license and artistic freedom that has also brought innovative changes to the old art form of sonnet writing. So…
Sonnets Are the ‘Little Songs’ of Wise Poets Form. Form. Form. Form is what the sonnet is all about. All types of sonnets are written by the same basic rules of being a total of fourteen lines written according to a strict rhyme scheme and meter of certain common patterns employed at discretion of the…
Twitter Driven Micro-Poetry: The Hot New Trend for Wise Poets The decade of the 90’s sand beyond 2000 was the age of the short poem, with the submission guidelines averaging 20 line or less for most print anthologies of the day. These guidelines were in place mainly due to space constraints and the literary preferences…
Excilia Saldaña: La Latina Matriarch of Cuban Poetry Award winning Cuban poetess Excilia Saldaña is the Wise Poet of this week. Born in on August 7, 1946, she was raised in Havana by her grandmother and her young teenage mother, and being raised in a matriarchal family like that, Saldaña became the poetic voice of…
Writer William Faulkner: The Free Spirit of the South William Faulkner, he was the legend the English class who was known as the writer whose intellect was so big that his mind could not be contained in a formal classroom or in a regular nine to five job. He started out in the lower elementary…
Erza Pound: The Wise Poet Arrested for Treason Ezra Weston Loomis Pound, born in the rural Idaho on October 30, 1885, was a pioneer in the early Imagist movement in which poetry was characterized by succinct language and exact detail in visual images. And the man influenced such greats as Elliott, Robert Frost, James Joyce,…
Dr. Seuss: The Pied Piper of Children’s Poetry Dr. Seuss, born Theodor Seuss Geisel on March 2, 1904, was the author who spirited away a generation of children from their parents into a world of mesmerizing rhymes, strange characters, and free thinking. And with personified characters such as The Grinch Who Stole Christmas he imparted…
Mark Twain: The Man of the Mighty Mississippi The stock advise for aspiring writers is to “Write what you know,” and Mark Twain did just that. He was born, with the given name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835 in the town of Florida Missouri, but was raised in the town of Hannibal…
They Kissed the Blarney Stone: The Wise Bards of Ireland With the advent of Christianity and monasteries in Ireland came the commencement of a new age of literacy and alphabet in the nation; then, naturally, a tradition of highly structured syllabic and lyrical poetry followed, a tradition in the two languages of Gaelic first and…
Ernest Hemingway: The Paradox of a Full and Empty Life Ernest Hemingway was what you call a “Man’s Man”, and he did just about everything. He was a traveler, a soldier, a sportsman, a fisherman, a great adventurer. And he made his living as a daring young dashing foreign correspondent living as an ex patriot…
Canada’s Jamie Routley The Voice of Today’s Contemporary Romance Today’s romance poetry is different from that of the Romantic era in that it is more realistic because it includes verse about the desires of the body, and not just the soul, and is a lot less realistic in it’s tone, Today’s featured poet is Twitter’s…
T. S. Eliot: A Tale of Two Countries Today’s distinguished poet T.S. Eliot wrote such intellectually challenging verse that it is difficult to read his poetry without cross-referencing some of his imagery, He was a forefather of the modernist movement in poetry with it’s plain language, stark imagery and pessimistic tone as opposed to the…
Charlotte Bronte With secret rooms in looming towers and gloomy mansions nessled in the countryside Charlotte Bronte and her sister Emily set the stage for the classic Gothic novel with their books, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, respectively. In both books the heroin is an innocent, young, penniless woman of low estate who goes to…
Slave Girl Phillis Wheatley and Her Amazing Life and Works Phillis Wheatley, born in 1753 in Senegal, West Africa, was a woman of uncanny talent and intelligence, Kidnapped in her homeland and sold as a slave in 1761 while still a child, her wit and talent garnered her special attention by her owners, John and…
Mother Teresa: The Sainted Secret Bard Not wanting to garner too much public attention for her writings, Mother Teresa of Calcutta wrote her diary and poems in secret as part and parcel of her own private spiritual self-discipline, But it was this kind of self-discipline that propelled her into India’s worst slums to care for…
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