Latin Poets

Here is a list of some of the famous Latin Poets. Cattulus Persius Ennius Plautus Horace Propertius Juvenal Vergil or Virgil Lucan Sulpicia Ovid

READING

Rutgers MFA Reading



KGB Bar, 85 East 4th StreetNew York City, NY


April 28, 2012


7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

WORDS OF WISDOM

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.



~Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) 

Favorite Writers

Here is a list of my favorite authors.

Edgar Allan Poe
Langston Hughes
Sylvia Plath
Paul Laurence Dunbar

TODAY'S WORD

APOCOPE

: the loss of one or more sounds or letters at the end of a word (as in sing from Old English singan)

Tonight @ Bluestockings

Friday, April 20th @ 7PM – $5 Suggested



Discussion: “Women’s and Trans’ Prisoner Issues”


In conjunction with the Prisoner Art Show, join us for a discussion about issues and difficulties face by incarcerated people who identify as women or trans, outlining the historical development of incarceration to issues of privatization, personal experience and resistance. Panelists to be announced.


Bluestockings
172 Allen Street
New York, NY

Subway: F train to 2nd Ave

WORDS OF WISDOM

Knowledge never becomes irrelevant.

TODAY'S WORD

CHIMERICAL

Unreal and existing only as the product of wild unrestrained imagination.

Unrealistic  

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COMPENDIUM

A brief compilation or composition consisting of a reduction
and condensation of the subject matter of a larger work.

In brief form

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ALACRITY


A promptness in responding.
Cheerful readiness; briskness, eagerness.

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QUEUE

Tail piece of a violin or other stringed  instrument.

WORDS OF WISDOM

From a little spark may burst a flame.


~Dante Alighieri, Italian Poet (1265-1321)

Divine Comedy

I'm reading Dante's The Divine Comedy. It is a trilogy of three Dante classics; Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. It's considered a great work and I've been wanting to read it for years. I do recommend it. I have thought of a few ideas for future stories just from reading Inferno. 

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LABRYRINTH

1a: a place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys 

  b: a maze (as in a garden) formed by paths separated by high hedges

WORDS OF WISDOM

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.


Theodore Roethke 

TODAY'S WORD

SYNECHDOCHE, n.

noun

• a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning “Cleveland’s baseball team”).

TODAY'S WORD

OMNI-


All; universal.


ex.- omnipotent, omnidirectional, omnigender.

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EPINICIA


Songs celebrating victors in the Panhellenic games.