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Cathy Mellen Our Fall 2020 Contest Winner
Shirley SatterfieldCathy Mellen Our Fall 2020 Contest Winner I am very pleased to announce that our dailywisdomwords.com Fall poetry contest winner is poet and blogger Cathy Mellen. Congrats Cathy! 1. Where are you from, and please tell us about your life and your home? ️ I am from Lowell, Massachusetts. Home to Ed McMahon, Bette Davis…
Modern Prose Poetry Bends the Rules
Modern Prose Poetry Bends the Rules There are definite difference between poetry and prose. Poetry is written in verse form and relies on picturesque speech, metaphor, imagery, can bend the rules of grammar, and has line breaks in verse form that define it as poetry. Prose on the other hand is always written with regular…
Jericho Brown and His Long Path to Recognition
While not all great poets don’t chose big education as their chosen path to success, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Jericho Brown chose that challenging path for himself. Writer Malcolm Gladwell, the author of “Outliers: The Story of success”. asserts that great success comes only by three major things; talent, preparation and practice. And Brown sure…
Spielberg’s ‘Poltergeist’ the Great American Ghost Story: Halloween Month Horror Series Part IV
Spielberg’s ‘Poltergeist’ the Great American Ghost Story: Halloween Month Horror Series Part IV Now, you know you’ve got problems when a hostile ghost uses the family TV as a medium to communicate with your youngest daughter. And then with the earth shaking declaration by the child that “They are here,” your perceptions of life are…
Agatha Christie the Dame of Mystery: Halloween Horror Month Part III
Agatha Christie the Dame of Mystery: Halloween Horror Month Part III Ah, Agatha Christie, Her wildly popular murder mysteries have kept readers gleefully occupied on cold winter nights for decades. They kept me gleefully occupied for hours on end for decades with her eccentric, sometimes comical, fatally flawed characters and her logical, slightly ironic plot…
J.K. Rowling and Her ‘Otherworldly’ Success: Halloween Horror Month Part II
J.K. Rowling and Her ‘Otherworldly’ Success: Halloween Horror Month Part II Her marriage was over. She was jobless; on welfare. And she was so broke that she had to type 12 copies of her first book “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” on a manual typewriter to send to each publisher because she could not…
Stephen King The Master of Dark Fiction: Halloween Horror Month Part I
Stephen Edwin King is the wildly popular horror fiction writer that started life working a regular jobs like the average American working stiff. But he has a twisted imagination and a penchant for writing dark suspenseful fiction that has set him apart. Born on September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine, to a working class family,…
e e cummings: The Experimental Poet
Today’s prevailing wisdom in literary circles is that language is fluid and the rules of grammar can be bent, as long as the skilled author intuitively knows it works. And it was most likely the influence of the innovative poet e e cummings that led to this kind of thinking because he broke the rules…
Emma Lazarus Wants “Your Tired and Your Poor
The Iconic poem ‘The New Colossus” was one sonnet all American children had to read in school, at least those of us in the Baby Boom generation. And the words immortalized on a plaque hanging inside the the base of the Statue of Liberty are as follows: Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,…
Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Radical English Poet of Social Change
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on August 4, 1792 in Sussex, England to a well heeled noble family and enjoyed a pleasant rural childhood. And although his father Timothy Shelley was a conservative member of the Whig party in Parliament, Percy himself grew up to be a politically radical writer and poet and a firebrand…
Johnathan Edwards Preached the American House Down
Tucked deep in the annals of classic American literature you will find a recorded sermon entitled “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” that literally brought the Thirteen Colonies to it’s knees. This iconic sermon touched off a highly emotional and intense spiritual movement called the Great Awakening that is still legendary in America’s…
H.I.E. Dhlomo: The Literary Luminary of South African Apartheid
HIE Dhlomo: The Literary Luminary of South African Apartheid South Africa is a land rich in history and literature which can boast of up to eleven official languages, including English. And although the Black Africaan people were suppressed and their literature not published during the colonial period, they were still prolific in the oral tradition…
Anthony Kellman: A Wise Poet with a Caribbean Beat
Anthony Kellman: A Wise Poet with a Caribbean Beat No lengthy discussion of poetry in the English speaking world would be complete without recognizing a great poet of present day Barbados, Anthony Kellman. Kellman is a poet and singer/songwriter who was born on the island of Barbados on April 24, 1955. He is an innovative…
The Invisible Writer: A Lesson Learned in Simplicity
Writers are sometimes temperamental creatures, as artists go, and I was sometimes temperamental and a little over confident in my skills, since it takes a fairly strong ego to think that that you can write something that someone else is going to want to read what you have written. It takes a lot of nerve…
More Wisdom Lessons Learned About Writing
Dear Writing community, I just want to apologize for the lateness of this blog post. I have been very deeply under the health weather, but it is not due to the symptoms of Covid-19, fortunately, so I will be alright. Last week I wrote about the importance of either writing what you know about, at…
Some Writing Tips of My Own that I Learned Through the Years
Some Writing Tips of My Own that I Learned Through the Years I am a strictly a poet and a non-fiction writer, so writing fiction is out of my league. However, I have learned a few pointers about good writing in the classroom over the years that I think will be of help to writers…
Twitter’s Own (Kattt): On The Cutting Edge of a Scotland Sea
Twitter’s Own (Kattt): On The Cutting Edge of a Scotland Sea 1. When did you start writing and why? Kattt – I started writing in my late teens. My niece was a baby and I would tell her little bedtime stories. As she got older I started to write them down. She loved listening and…
Sandra Cisneros: Wise Poet of Chicana Literature
Sandra Cisneros: Wise Poet of Chicana Literature The Chicana writers are a group of poets and authors of a current Mexican/American “cultural hybridity” tradition. And Sandra Cisneros is one of the most prominent figures in this post-modern movement with her much loved novel The House on Mango Street, her short stories, and her poetry, This…
Daily Wisdom’s Own Island Poet Michelle Hugelmann: An Interview
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
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…